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Written by neonsharkz
I see this so much 'the snail had babies what do I do??' in every snail group. And then they find out what they have to do and its so sad. But I feel like i never actually see posts clearly warning people about what they will have to do. or maybe i just dont see them lol.
Anyways If you are someone who found theirself in this situation and feel bad about it, the eggs arent going to be sad they didnt live. Or even know. And when you humanely euthanise the babies it's so fast they wouldn't even know it happened even if they had brains. It will be okay! Ask someone for help if you cant do it yourself, you would be suprised by how many people are casually up to it. If you cant get someone else to then keep remembering you arent being cruel, and youre doing the right thing. Not doing it would be worse
Ive seen people releasing invasive snails. Ive seem people selling clear runts. Ive seen people trying to sell clutches that come from a single kept snail. Do not let snails suffer because you didnt want to humanely end them before they could start to suffer. Pleaseš„²
Snails dont care about the babies. Your snail would honestly probably appreciate their eggs crushed up and put in a dish so that they could eat it and get their strength back up. My shrimps eat splatted bladder snail babies sometimes. It helps them grow and reproduce. They do a happy dance for it. Similar to how in nature animals would be eating the snail offspring and eggs. If I didnt splat those babies the tank would be overrun by hundreds of snails. If i didnt get rid of my land snails eggs my house would be overrun. This is what you need to think of when you want snails
In some cases you don't always need to immediately cull all. If the babies come from healthy, good sized snails that aren't related etc, and you have space, then you can go through the culling process over time and should eventually end up with some healthy babies left. Though you obviously will have to still euthanise some, and again its important their parents have good genes and health if people want to go through that path with them. Some snail keepers argue that this isnt neccesary and that nature will take care of it naturally...however I'd very much disagree with thisš« as you can see deformities and clear failure to thrive in SO many clutches that had not been through the process and had not came from good sized snails with 'good' genes. Its especially a problem with fulica, their genes are a nightmare now when it comes to them in the pet trade and it's so rare you see a (non wild) fulica that is actually big. It makes me sad to see how small fulica we keep are now compared to them in the wild
Oh and one final thing DO NOT FREZE BABY SNAILS!!! That is not a humane method of euthanising snails. Pls
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