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  1. 05-22-2006, 03:04 PM #1
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    picked up one other pet for my daughter... meet Sam!

    She'll get 11" full grown size. Eats veggies and needs a lot of calcium so we put a cuttle bone into her enclosure and she'll be happy.

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    Re: african land snail

    Eleven inches??? Holy cow, that'll be one big snail!! I've never seen or heard of those before...very cool!
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    Re: african land snail

    that's cause they are illegal in the US - up here in Canada it's illegal to import and to release... but not to keep as pets. Of course, as a responsible pet owner... you never release anything to the wild.

    In Africa... they eat these for dinner!
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    Re: african land snail

    Dinner? Ewwww.

    Oh my goodness that is going to be a massive snail. LOL! How did you ever come to the decision of - hey a foot long snail would be a great addition to the family? lol
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    Re: african land snail

    That's awesome! I just wish I could have one, that'd be fantastic to have a foot long snail!
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    Re: african land snail

    actually i didn't really. i was over at someone's house (dropping off silkworms) and checking out all of his cool stuff. he has a breeding pair of p. mettalicas!!! ohhhh yaaaa baby we got to see them IRL and they are soooooooooo gorgeous... esp the female. anyway, i was telling him how bug crazy my daughter is. she carries a bug book with her everywhere so she can identify any bugs she sees LOL We have an organic yard which is like a tropical rainforest so she gets to find lots of them!

    Anyway... he was showing me the millipedes and I asked him how much $$ - he said $3 so I said... oh I've got to get her one... she'll go nutty over this... and he said, "oh ya, well she'll go even nuttier over this one" and tossed it into the container.

    and there we have it... another weird pet in the stephenson house LOL

    hahahaha homeschooling is so much FUN!!!
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    LOL! That is too funny. Buy a $3 millipede and a free monster snail baby. Oh my.

    Is your daughter in buggie heaven?
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    Re: african land snail

    oh yes she is. and when i was done taking photos of her snail this morning i went to put him back and she sternly explained to me that snails DO NOT like being taken off something they are stuck to. i should just leave it alone and she'll make sure he makes his way back into his enclosure! (cause mom, why do you think they shrink right into their shell... cause they're scared of YOU that's why!!! *said with a definite DUH!!! at the end*)

    she then told her dad that when he puts the little steriline containers back on the shelf under her fish tank he is to hold on with BOTH hands until they are safely on the shelf... then he can let go!

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    Re: african land snail

    Mmmmh sliiiime!

    It's so cool that she's into it and completely non-plussed!

    How long until we see some mantids?

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