Giant African Land Snails (GALS)
GALS can be great pets, and we love them. Unfortunately, lots of other people who love them also seem to love breeding them by the thousand. and then trying, and failing, to re-home all of the resultant hatchlings.
If you really want a GALS, then please source one responsibly from a re-homing or rescue centre.
Word of warning:
Here at SnailsUK, we think GALS really need bigger enclosures than most people are willing to give them. Furthermore, unless you plan to make GALS a very big part of your life, then keeping a suitably sized enclosure in display condition can quickly become an awful chore. GALS will very quickly (i.e. overnight) cover the walls of their terrarium with slime, really horrible looking faeces, and lumps of substrate, and will destroy all the subtleties of landscaping that you attempt to create. If you're thinking of housing GALS in your living room as an aesthetically pleasing focal point (a la your friend's tropical community aquarium) please think again. It won't be pretty.
Plenty of people end up keeping their GALS out of sight in large plastic storage boxes, but out of sight can be out of mind, and we do wonder what the point of the whole exercise then becomes?
GALS can be great pets, and we love them. Unfortunately, lots of other people who love them also seem to love breeding them by the thousand. and then trying, and failing, to re-home all of the resultant hatchlings.
If you really want a GALS, then please source one responsibly from a re-homing or rescue centre.
Word of warning:
Here at SnailsUK, we think GALS really need bigger enclosures than most people are willing to give them. Furthermore, unless you plan to make GALS a very big part of your life, then keeping a suitably sized enclosure in display condition can quickly become an awful chore. GALS will very quickly (i.e. overnight) cover the walls of their terrarium with slime, really horrible looking faeces, and lumps of substrate, and will destroy all the subtleties of landscaping that you attempt to create. If you're thinking of housing GALS in your living room as an aesthetically pleasing focal point (a la your friend's tropical community aquarium) please think again. It won't be pretty.
Plenty of people end up keeping their GALS out of sight in large plastic storage boxes, but out of sight can be out of mind, and we do wonder what the point of the whole exercise then becomes?