Keeping all the eggs from your breeding pair of adult snails can sometimes be disastrous.
Giant African land snails are known to be breeding machines; producing hundreds of young at a time and being ready for reproduction as often as every 2-3 months (sometimes more frequent)
As cruel as this may seem, it is in fact the most humane way of maintaining population size.
Freezing the eggs once they are laid halts their development into a snail.
The cells literally "stop dividing" - no pain is caused in this process.
Keeping 20-30 snails and raising them to adulthood is a lot of hard work, even if you are planning to sell most of them on.
In the wild more than 60% of the young don't make it to adulthood because of predators and disease and for this reason, adults produce hundreds of young, in hope that few of them would survive to a breeding age.
Predators naturally control the population size.
There is no threat from predators and very little threat of disease for snails in captivity.
For this reason, snails thrive and can literally flood you with young.
May this be a kind explanation to why I choose to freeze most of the eggs produced by my snails.
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