Name: GIANT African Land Snail! | Baby Snails | My Pet Snail
Uploaded: 2018-09-01T03:37:59.000Z
Duration: 7 min 49 s
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Today, I'm going to be sharing with you my snails

and the story behind one snail in particular

I'm sorry, snails have faces and 
they just amuse me so much

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because I have a TON of amazing videos coming up

and I'm super excited about them 
and I want to share them with you.

My snails at the moment are having a bath.

I know that it sounds weird, but 
you should soak your snails.

And they are in a delectable 
Ex Mint Chocolate Chip....soft scoop....

something or other, which I did NOT
devour all alone over the course

I have someone peeking over the side here!

He-
...OH! Ewww...you've got some grossness on your face!

Lovely! Just...grime on my fingers right there.

I'm wetting my hands because
you should never really pick up a snail

with dry hands. It can really damage their skin.

Oh hello, is that you? 
I think you're a bit gorgeous aren't you?

I want to give you guys a really good close-up of Shrek.

I don't really want to keep Shrek on my
hand too long even though my hand is wet

because it's just not good for them. 
So I'm going to try and support him onto

something which is uh quite state-of-the-art.

I would like to introduce you to uh...
my lettuce leaf over hee-hee-here.

This looks like how you would receive 
some kind of trendy street food.

Let's peel it open and...
OH! It's escargot!

So this is Shrek. Look, I'm just
going to put Shrek up to my face,

just so you can get a grasp of the scale of how big Shrek is.

I have an urge to lick her shell
but I'm not going to because

This is Shrek, my huge female giant African land snail.

I say female because she laid
some eggs for me a couple of days ago

but, in reality, snails can actually be
male or female; they're hermaphrodites.

They can change... 
chop and change if they're going to be

male or female so...um, you know, 
just because she laid some eggs for me the other day

doesn't mean that she's always been female.

I'm fairly certain that she was 
a male when she first came to me.

Is that you in the camera? Are you going to 
be a YouTube famous snail? I think you are.

You see my fingers under there? 
She's licking it gently with her raspy tongue.

It doesn't hurt, it just feels really weird.

It's like a miniature cat tongue under 
there just like... stroking my fingertip.

Shrek has a really interesting backstory.

Shrek is actually a rescue pet of mine 
because she was found, not by me,

but she was found, abandoned, by a 
woman who was driving on the road.

I think it was somewhere down in 
Kent, which is the South of England.

And this woman came across this crate and pulled over

because it was right in the middle of
the road and she didn't want to like hit it

or anyone else to hit it because 
she was being really considerate.

And she moved it, looked inside, 
and found a whole ton of baby snails.

Now, baby snails, I will show you 
one near the end of this video,

but they are so tiny, they can balance 
on the tip of my finger and

So she actually took them home and
her and her husband raised them.

They would give them baths 
and they would look after them.

Not THE largest, but one of the largest 
out of the clutch that she rescued.

And she just had so many of them 
and was getting on a little bit in age

and she just needed someone 
else to take over their care,

so I said that I would take on a 
couple of snails, which I have done.

And Shrek actually doesn't 
just live at home with me now.

I have...had* a big vivarium which 
I used to use for Shrek but...

But I had to prioritize some other animals coming in.

And at my workplace, we've got the same size 
vivarium, so I just took her to my workplace.

Now the people who kept Shrek 
before me were super kind people,

I can't thank them enough for what they
did for Shrek and the other snails,

but they didn't have quite the same knowledge 
that other people who are more experienced

with exotic animals have on how to care for 
snails and they kind of bred out of control

because these guys can lay hundreds of 
eggs at a time if the environment is right.

These guys are actually a pest in their native land 
in Africa because they can actually strip drywall.

They are voracious eaters. 
They devour things in the right climate

and, unfortunately, there wasn't enough calcium slup....

enough calcium supplement being put into their
diet, so they started eating each other's shells.

So all the smaller baby snails would climb 
on to Shrek and rasp away with their tongues.

So let me see if I can show you. 
So all of this here, that should be nice and smooth.

In fact, I'm going to show you what a 
healthy snail shell looks like.

This here's Delilah and I actually raised 
Delilah from when she was absolutely tiny

Again, I don't know if Delilah is technically male or female, I mean she's actually both, really.

You can see her shell is just far superior in
every way as compared to Shrek's shell.