I've had a few emails in regaurds to a posting I made in the classifieds about my male Henkeli being on a diet of soft shell snails so I thought it best to respond to everyone all at once. The truth is not only does my Henkeli feed on hardshell snails but so does my cork bark and my trio of sikkorea, and Im sure any other species would enjoy them as well but I dont have any others to test this theory on yet so please feel free to update us with any species you may feed the snails. The first thing you need to remember in feeding your Uro hard shell snails is to match the size of the shell to the size of your geckos mouth. I prefer to feed on the small size . As for getting your snails there is only one way of getting your snails and that is going outside and finding them yourself. The only place that I have every realy found the snails is on the banks of streams crawling in the vegitation. The best time to find them is after a sufficient rainstorm. to harvest them I bring a rubbermaid bin with airholes drilled in the top. Place a bunch of wet rhubarb in the bin and then just start grabbing snails they'll be everywhere (remeber in the weeds)You can keep them alive at home with the rhubarb and a good spraying every day. If you cant seem to find any or just have alot of extra money I'll be happy to go get snails for you
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THE DEFINITVE GUIDE TO OBTAINING HARDSHELL SNAILS
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isn't wild ruhbarb poisunus? and where are you to have wild land snails. where i live it's to cold to have land snails. i haver had succes with aquatic small snails.
I would try this, but I'm afraid all the snails in my area are full of pesticides.
-Matt
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I live in Upstate Ny. We have our warm season from late april thru mid october. Wild rhubarb isn't poisonous we eat it in pies its pretty good. I can pretty much garuntee that the snails I feed arent full of pesticides. I get them from a trout stream surrounded by nothing but a forest. I can only collect on one side of the steam because the other has been designated a no entrance wild life preserve run by the DEC. Tonight there is going to be a storm here in NY so tommorow will be a prime snail harvesting day any requests may contact me privately.
