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    It has been a couple of months since I got my first pair of snails, since then the two adults have laid eggs twice. This picture is of the first group of snails that hatched. They are about halfway full grown. My African bullfrog absolutely loves them. I just finished rinsing them off in this photo (normally I don't go around holding them like this )

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    How do you feed those to frog? Whole or shelled?
    Remember to take care of the enclosure and it will take care of your frog !​

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    Somehow some animals have managed a way to pull them out of their shells. My golden skinks and hedgehogs love snails

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    Snail shells are made of calcium so arnt they digestible?

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    The snails at this age and size (as seen in my photo) have shells that are quite bendable almost like plastic if that makes sense? The full grown snails have harder shells but are easily crunched by a larger frog, chameleon, lizard, etc. the shells ARE an excellent source of calcium.

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    Looking good. I wanna give breeding another shot soon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by poison View Post
    Looking good. I wanna give breeding another shot soon.
    One of the easier feeders that I've kept. Actually they are almost like pets because I keep them under my desk where I can see them. The only hassle is cleaning the walls off once the snails slime the place up.

    Other than that, leave them alone, keep them fed with lettuce, cucumber, cuttlefish bone, etc and let them do their thing.

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