Crunch goes the snail

One of the benefits of blue tongued lizards is that they keep the snail population down. That's one of my problems also.

Let me explain.

We have around our home a resident population of blue tongued lizards. There is at least one breeding pair that I know of and I found several young last summer. In winter they are mostly dormant, but so are the snails. As the weather warms up, the snails start to come out and so do the lizards. Because we have resident blue tongues, we do not get many snails.

This is a good from the gardens perspective but we also have two pet blue tongues, Banana and Apricot - named because of their predilection for the fruits in question, who also enjoy snails. So we often find it difficult to get snails for them. Whilst they will happily eat lots of ther food, snails appear to be one of their favorites.

So to the rescue comes my father-in-law.

The other day he arrived with a large jar full of snails. The blueys had a feast and we still have plenty left over.

This is quite a bonus all around as he gets to go out and catch snails and we get lots of free food for the blue tongues. There are some blue tongue lizard care sheets and diet information on my site here if you are interested in these gentle and wonderful pets.