LW007 Interplay Snail World, Mixed

Perfect home for sweet little pet snails

Perfect for my snails

This is a plastic box with a book inside telling you about snails. You'd be better off just getting a snail book and using one of your own containers. My son was so disapointed he cried when we opened it.

Expensive for something that was just a small clear plastic box. Would not buy again.

I expected more, it's just a small plastic box. All hype no meat, the packaging is more exciting than the product.

This was way to expensive.

I looked into this kit wile doing research on trying to raise escargot. No snails are available you have to find them and use wild caught. I love in an area where there are no wild snails and I don't like removing wild animals from the environment. It is not like frog and butterfly kits where you send in the card and get tadpoles or eggs. The enclosure I have seen is very small, I have a faimly sizes mayo jar in my fridge that is much larger than that. You can get a rubbermaid tote with clear sides for the same price that is much larger. Just add soil and vegtables the far better container is done.

I bought this last year as a gift for an autistic boy who was curious about living things. He's a country boy who prefers nature to computers. It's ideal for long summer holidays to get kids out of the house, encouraging them to look after something and generate an interest, while discovering how creatures live. Excellent value for money when you consider how much time the child spends with it. If Nanny has a farm with a great supply of worms to stock it, even better. His interested started when he found a large snail as granddad was delivering my hay. I gave him a terrarium, the snail got a name and even went on holiday to Skegness.

meant for a small child who will lose interest quickly

Fun and interesting.

Great, small children love it.

We love this! Great little booklet supplied with it tells you all you need to know and more. After reading the instructions and setting it up we found a couple of rather dead looking little snails (George and Georgina) in the garden (it was rather hot out there so I imagine they were just waiting for their evening rampage through the flowerbeds). As soon as we put them in their new home with a nice fresh leaf of spring greens and some moist compost they sprang to life. I never expected them to be so active so quickly - we are totally fascinated to see them moving and eating. Happy snails, happy daughter, happy me! EDIT: We've noticed that if we don't remove the lid for more than a day, George and Georgina become very lethargic and inactive. It would seem that not enough oxygen can get in through the very small holes in the lid, causing the container to gradually fill with carbon dioxide. So we now make a point of removing the lid at least twice a day and making a fanning movement across the top of the open container to "blow away" the accumulated carbon dioxide and get some fresh air in - remembering to then replace the lid! This immediately stimulates the snails to become active again. EDIT #2: So - 7 months later and George and Georgina are thriving - so much so that about a week ago I noticed a clump of about 30 little white snail eggs nestling under the soil in the corner of the container! We are thrilled! They will take a few weeks to hatch so if/when they do I'll post an update - watch this space! EDIT #3: Oh my gosh! Since my last edit (3-4 weeks ago) we have had two more batches of eggs laid, and the first batch have started to hatch. So there are now lots of incredibly cute, pearly white mini-Georges and mini-Georginas finding their way around their new home, tucking in to lettuce leaves and chunks of cucumber and occasionally escaping through the larger hole at the top, which until now we've left open to encourage air circulation in the tank. They are so sweet, but with so many others due to hatch in the coming weeks we'll have to get another bigger container to properly house them all. If all these babies can be produced by just 2 snails in such a short time, I'm beginning to understand how the species is so successful in overrunning gardens and wiping out vegetable patches up and down the country. You've gotta love nature! I've added a pic of Georgina carrying 2 of her many, many children - sooo cute!