Meet my sons new pet

[~Tracey~]

This is a giant African snail

 

[~BunBuns~]

OMG...... im sorry but...EW

 

[JadeIcing]

~BunBuns~ wrote:

OMG...... im sorry but...EW

:yeahthat

 

[Michaela]

Wow! What are they like to care for? Can't sayI would want one myself but still cool

 

[Becknutt]

LOL, I agree...Ew

It's an interesting animal, I've never seen one but I don't think I would want to touch it.

 

[~Tracey~]

Michaela wrote:

Wow! What are they like to care for? Can't sayIwould want one myself but still cool

Very easy to care for. My son has his in a tank with damp dirt in it,some cuttlefish for their shells. They eat lettuce, cucumber, eggshells and you dont need two snails to breed as they are male andfemale, you just need to replace the soil with sand as they bury theeggs

 

[~BunBuns~]

thats very interesting

 

[jil101ca]

ewwwwww yuck yuck ewwwwwww

 

[binkies]

Oh wow! It is cute!!!! Where did you get such a critter?

 

[ChandieLee]

wow.
I would be sooo scared to even hold him.

 

[Mikoli]

Yes ... Umm ... Interesting

Scary ... :thud:

 

[BinkyRabbit33]

I was NOT expecting that when i entered this thread Why are there ants on it :shock:

 

[BinkyRabbit33]

Well I searchedon giant african snails for a bit because I was wondering if they werecommonly kepts as pets... and i learned that they are dangerous,invasive, and agricultural pests. So dangerous that it's illegal tobring them into the US.. but if they are cared for correctly then theyare relatively okay.

Just in case you didn't already know all this -http://exoticpets.about.com/cs/rarespecies/a/pestsGALs.htm

 

[nangobi]

It's an interesting article. Thoughtaken incontext,the term 'dangerous' seems a littlemisleading.

It says.... "Giant African land snails are not dangerous in the samesense that pet tigers and alligators ...... and that the'dangerous' part refers to them apparently carrying a meningitis riskwhich has never been found anywhere in the US and as far as I can findout, never anywhere else either unless the snail meat waseaten. By far the biggest risk appears to be with the snailsdestructive abilities in the wild - and that, I'm afraid can also beapplied to our own darlings, the rabbit.

I sound like an advocate for Giant African land snails, don'tI? Not my cup of tea at all I'm afraid. Small andfurry's more in my line, not big and slimy.....eeewwwwww!!!

 

[bat42072]

i think he is cool... but then again i am a bit of a tomboy...lol... i like weird creatures...



--becky

 

[BinkyRabbit33]

Yeah they aren't dangerous in that sense, but can do some damage if let outside.

 

[~Tracey~]

Dangerous lol what would it do suck you to death. Those are not ants on it, it is soil lol

 

[nangobi]

'Dangerous lol what would it do suck you to to death":laugh:

 

[Pipp]

:zoro

Prepare to be ... slimed?

(or at least grossed out).

Almost every animal not native to an area isdangerous --rabbits, birds, insects, fish, you name it. They stand a goodchance of having major food supplies and few predators so they multiplyfar beyond what nature intended. The imports can destroyexisting populations either physically or becausetheyhaveno immunities to their parasites, ortheycandestroy their environments and starve themout.

It's never a good idea to mess with the balance. Closelyguarded pets only! (Especially if just one canreproduce. What a trick!)

(That said, I think it's cute!)



sas

 

[Starina]

Neat!

~Star~