Josh,
In turtle circles it is assumed that a live snail can have enough
chemical residue to kill a turtle. I still feed snails to my box turtles.
I collect them at the local creeks and parks. The SLO parks dept is
fortunately to cost conscience to spray parks. Fresh water snails are an
intermediate host for liver flukes, I don't use them. I don't know about
salt water snails. But it isn't logical to me to feed a gecko something
it would never eat in the wild.
Cyndy
(Who lives in SLO also)
On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:56:32 -0700 Josh Klavir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>
> I have a question about getting snails prepared for feeding to my
> Geckos.
> I want to collect some snails from the neighborhood, and keep them
> in a 5
> gallon tank with some food to eat so I can try to cycle out any
> pesticides
> they may have in their systems.
>
> How long should I keep them before they're safe to feed?
>
> If getting snails this way is too great a risk, can I use snails
> from the
> fish section of a pet store?
>
> Would salt water snails have to much salt in their systems?
>
> Has anybody tried feeding freshwater crabs to their Geckos?
>
> Thanks,
>
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