$6 each or buy 6 get one free for $36. Can fit up to 7 kits in a small priority flat rate box. Shipping $8.50 in the continental USA only.
I started making this for my own snails when I occasionally just didn’t have time to whip out the blender and fresh veggies. Only the best ingredients used: NO FILLERS –
INGREDIENTS: organic mulberry leaves, organic kelp, spirulina, pure krill powder, black soldierfly larvae and calcium. Just mix with water, microwave for 1 minute 30 seconds and pour into a silicone mold of your choice. Kit includes snello powder and measuring vial. Rabbit and mystery snails love this and each batch is tested on my own snails 🙂
Each kit makes about 4oz of snello. Can be refrigerated or frozen depending on how fast you will use it.
Snello powder and measuring vial Snails eating snello from a kitSnails eating snello from a kit
Take your chosen mystery snail out of the water (don’t worry, they have a lung and can breathe air — this does not harm them at all as long as they aren’t kept out of the water for a long period of time).
Sit down and hold the mystery snail on its back between your thumb and forefinger in a slightly vertical position.
Wait… wait some more… wait some more. In all sincerity this takes an incredible amount of patience because the snail could come out in 5 minutes, 30 minutes or not at all.
Gender can be identified when the snail comes far out of its shell (see photos below for how far).
Look at the snail’s RIGHT shoulder. (The left side of each image as you look at the photos on your screen)
On a female you will see what looks like two holes on either shoulder just under the shell.
On a male, you will see the sheath mostly blocking the hole on the snail’s right shoulder side (left as you look at the photo on your screen).
People often ask if their egg clutches are fertile so here is an example of an infertile clutch (left) next to a fertile clutch (right).
These two clutches were laid within 2 days of each other. The one on the left is “bad” or mostly if not completely infertile. See how the egg cells are small and not very bubble like? Two other tips on detection: 1) smell a clutch that you suspect is bad if it’s been at least two weeks. Infertile or bad clutches have a distinctive smell while healthy/fertile clutches do not. If the clutches are sitting on a damp paper towel, do you see a red/pink stain under one? Only infertile clutches will stain the paper towel. You can see in the photo above that the left clutch has stained the paper towel pink underneath it.
The one on the right is very fertile and it will likely hatch In the next day or two. It would still be necessary to wait a week to 10 days to be able to tell this as egg development is unclear until that much time has passed. About 3 days before hatching, a fertile clutch will start to change color to look moldy prior to hatch. You cane see the color changes in the Mystery Snail Egg Development page link below. It takes anywhere from 10 days to 4 weeks for an egg clutch to hatch based on temperature and other conditions.
Florida Mystery Snails 