How to get started with breeding African snails

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Here is the last episode of the series on achatin. I'm so glad I could share my experience and I believe that today's episode will be equally interesting. The technical equipment of our terarii can be very wide. I deliberately placed just equipment, which normally you can get in the commercial network or the Internet.

As the first I lighting. The most favourable light source today are compact fluorescent lamps. They have low electricity consumption and relatively high intensity. Whereas, when due to the heat, we can't do much this source pritapet. For an idea of my terrarium is 100cm long and I am using as a source of light four compact fluorescent lamps each of 23 W, that's a total of 92 W for one hour. These lamps shine each as a normal 100 W light bulb. It follows that, in the use of fluorescent lamps can save money? electrical energy. These lamps can select a color temperature. From the cold, which produces bright white light, warm yellow light, which is more akin to sunlight. For even better prospivani of plants and animals that we call, we can use a special full-spectrum fluorescent lamps or neodymove light bulbs. Both of these types have the advantage that the composition of the light emitted from these sources is most similar to sunlight.The strength of the UVA and UVB radiation, choose always according to the location where your pet is. For our climate enough power UV 2%, to subtropy and the tropics, the 5% and 10% for desert conditions. If we choose the neodymovy source of lighting, we must not forget that this lighting is an important source of heat and infrared radiation. Appropriate, in particular for cold-blooded animals. As a complementary heat source, this light bulb well suited even for snails. Another source may be as light bulbs, fluorescent tubes and classic. I think everyone uses the type that best fits the specific type of teraria. Another hot issue is the humidity in the terrarium to check. If we want our achatiny feel like in your home, we should have them at least part of these terms and conditions. So how to do it? Natural home to achatin is, as already we know for sure the previous parts, rainforest, in which the annual average humidity of 80%. This means that we can have a humidity of around 60%, but then we should prepare our achatinam such small rainy season. What is humidity? We will be interested in the relative humidity of the air, which is the ratio between the immediate water vapour in the air quantity and the quantity of vapour, which would air on the same pressure and temperature at full saturation. It is quoted in percentage. The relative humidity is also sometimes referred to as the relative humidity. We already know what humidity is, and now we can concentrate on how to measure and maintain. To check the moisture measurement apparatus we use a different name, on behalf of the hygrometer or hygrometr. We have a wide range of instruments, which we can measure the humidity. For simplification, it is called analogue and digital. It is true that this Division is very rough and inaccurate, but for our purposes it is sufficient. Analog hygrometer can be thought of as something that has to be in itself a classic needle around the scale, and shows the current level of relative humidity. Digital hygrometer is a device, that using a probe measured humidity and display apparatus shows us the measured value. Most of these instruments not only displays the current air humidity, but thanks to its technology, we can see even the smallest and the largest measured value over a period of measurement. Some may play a sound on a small or excessive humidity in check the measured object. You can't accurately and clearly say that these types of check is better. Both provide fairly objective measurements to check the time, and depends only on us, that kind of we. I just wanted to point out that if we wanted to control the moisture content automatically, we need to have the apparatus termed hygrostat.

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