Last saterday i noticed one of my Helix pomatia's showing a big interest in one of the margie's.For hours i tried to get him to mate by to no avail.After awhile it decided to rest for a bit but then started the whole process from the beginning.Alas this time too there was no success.The two other Margies came to have a look to see what was going on,all this attention however failed to distract the pomatia.

After a night sleeping with the object of his obsession the pomatia left to find his luck elsewhere the next morning.

Rehousing.My reticulata's are growing so fast I decided to give them a new tank.Hopefully they can stay in there for awhile.I also transferred Andy the Fulica from the somewhat crowded natives tank to there.The baby pomatia's and Cepaea's have their own tank now,they share that one with the Arianta arbustorums.
The Helix lucorums are more active now I keep their tank more humid.I lost 4 out of 10 in the last weeks.
Six of the seven eggs from the Brixton Margies have now hatched,I have put them in the big tank that houses my young Margies.They have been marked to dinstinguish them from the first batch of young Margies.

The snailroom is finally taking shape,I think I have room for 10-12 tanks but I'll aim at 10.Right now I have 6 tanks occupied one of which is in the livingroom and not part of the 10 mentioned.Of the 7 eggs I found of the Margies two have hatched,the first one on the 24th.That makes it the first young Margie born of the snails rescued from Brixton market.Not much else has happened since the last post,all the snails are doing fine.Although I lost one of the Helix lucorums,they are not very active as snails go.I hardly see them moving around,don't know if it's the species or something thats not right in the set up.