Favoritos de sagecrab

I collected two adult Pomo bronze shoulderband snails from a pile of cardboard during clean up for an event held within second growth redwood forest near Highway 20 eight miles out from Fort Bragg. I put the shoulderbands in a 10 gallon terrarium with two four inch pots, the first filled with peat and the other with potting soil. I provided wetted cardboard and garden greens as well as a piece of cuddle bone and a few garden snail shells for calcium sources. This photo shows the two original snails and a number of their offspring. Note the variable growth rate. There were probably an additional 50+ individuals of the smallest size shown still in the tank when I took these photos. I thought these photos would be useful to others since its often difficult to identify juvenile snails, they seem to change quite a bite from stage to stage as they grow.