I raised Anguispira alternata and Webbhelix multilineata for years, and
through several generations, in a 10 gallon terrarium on my back porch.
Give them plenty of dirt and leaf litter and they'll survive the coldest
Midwest winter. They love veggie table scraps, but the key is to put in a
cuttlefish "bone" for parakeets. They will mob it for the calcium. Keep
them moist and watch out for marauding ants.

As for music, they prefer Blue Oyster Cult.



At 11:14 PM 1/14/2007, you wrote:
>I like pets but I don't want the responsibility to return home to take
>care of dogs or cats. As a joke, I put some snails from my yard in a
>clear plastic take-out container with some dead leaves and a little
>water. The container stands on my kitchen window sill. They've been
>dormant or sometimes sedately grazing the sides of the container.
>
>The snails are Mesodon thyroidus, Triodopsis hopetonensis, and
>Triodopsis juxtidens.
>
>Tonight there were some scraps of stringbeans from the cutting board
>and I put a few in. The Mesodon was the first to discover a scrap. He's
>been all over it, gorging himself for the last hour but now a T.
>hopetonensis is edging him out by pushing it faster. Meanwhile the T.
>juxtidens is attacking a second piece.
>
>I can almost see this as a video with Stravinsky's Rite of Spring for
>soundtrack.
>
>David Kirsh
>Durham, NC
>
>P.S. You can see some of the T. hopetonensis on
>http://jaxshells.org/0109aa1.htm
>Thanks to Harry Lee and Bill Frank.
>
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