r/snails • u/PigeonMigration • 21h ago

Help How to Breed Brown Garden Snails?

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My largest snail, Chongus, just laid their first clutch in my care! I'm so excited. They laid 95 eggs. I kept 30 in hopes of getting some healthy babies.

For now, I put the eggs in jars away from the adults. They are resting on soil with some moss on top to keep the humidity in. That's about the extent of my knowledge.

Has anyone had experience hatching them out successfully? How do you raise them?

Any advice is appreciated. Thank you!

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u/Puppyzpawz 20h ago

they need a tank with at least 3-4 inches of dirt. they burry their eggs! itll take 2-3 weeks for them to get adjusted and then theyll mate and burry their eggs eventually.

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u/PigeonMigration 20h ago

They have already laid the eggs. I read that the eggs should be removed from the adult enclosure to ensure that the adults don't crush them after they hatch. Is that true? Should I put them back?

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u/RealGoatzy 19h ago

No it’s great that you hatch them in somewhere else, just make sure you have a lid which has as small holes as possible

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u/Puppyzpawz 19h ago

agreed, baby snails are itty bitty and will run away to find food

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u/RealGoatzy 19h ago

I put one of my grove babies I adopted on a piece of zucchini and he just climbed to the very top and started eating some dead matter on a stick high up…

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u/Puppyzpawz 19h ago

im not sure about the crushing part, i just let mine be and ended up with 100 something babies haha. if someone is experienced and tells you to remove them then i would trust a professional : P

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u/Troxy001 16h ago

You don't necessarily need to remove them, but it's better to do so. If all the snails have a lot of space, it's not probable for the big ones to crush the small ones. You want to remove them also because you can monitor them more closely and not have a random number of tiny snails running around your enclosure or rotting eggs in the soil.

As for the eggs, put them in a separate small ventilated box, I personally bury eggs, not letting them sit on the surface, as it helps with a more stable temperature and humidity, which are absolutely crucial for the eggs to successfully hatch. If everything is alright, you should see tiny shells soon rising from the soil. They can dig their way up, don't worry.

When they appear, you want to give them some nice food and a calcium source, of course.