Captive-Bred Cepaea Snails Now Available
Welcome! This site supports a long term breeding project focused on captive Cepaea snails, primarily C. nemoralis and C. hortensis. The snails are selectively bred indoors over multiple generations for shell quality, vibrant colors, and overall health. Occasionally snails are made available in the store, currently in limited quantities, and project photos or updates may be shared.
The store offers captive-bred snails, custom terrariums, various species of isopods and springtails, and essential supplies such as calcium blocks or other accessories. Live animals are shipped securely packaged in ventilated tubs containing moss or substrate, along with food such as carrot or sweet potato. Shipments use insulated boxes and include heat packs at no additional cost when required. Orders are typically sent early in the week to prevent delays, with free postage for all orders over £10.
You'll find practical care guides for customers and hobbyists in the "Guides" category, alongside broader scientific and general-interest articles. Feel free to browse the store, explore the guides, or simply look around out of interest. For any questions, please use the site’s chat box or email directly at cepaea_store@outlook.com.
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Updates at a Snail’s Pace
If the site looks quiet for a while, it's not abandoned. This project runs on the timescale of generations of snails, not weeks or months. In that sense, “a snail’s pace” is an understatement. Real progress takes time to appear, so updates may be spaced far apart, and sometimes pages or articles will change or disappear while I refine things. Everything is moving forward, slowly, steadily, and at a snail's pace.
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Featured Articles
See the full collection on the Articles page.
Red juvenile mid-banded Cepaea Nemoralis
Orange juvenile mid-banded Cepaea Nemoralis
Yellow juvenile Cepaea Nemoralis
Red juvenile mid-banded Cepaea Nemoralis
COMING SOON
Cepaea familiaris is our long-term domestication project, a hybrid line shaped over many generations to become the ideal terrarium snail. Expect vibrant shells, novel traits, steadier activity, unique size lines for different enclosures, and longer, more consistent lifespans through selective breeding. It’s a slow craft, but worth the wait. More details will be shared as the project develops, and expect an article about Cepaea Familiaris soon.
About Cepaea.com
At Cepaea, you'll often see us using words like 'we' and 'our' in articles and care guides as if there's a whole team of researchers, keepers, and writers behind the scenes. In reality Cepaea is just one weird guy who likes snails. Things just sound better with the imperial 'we'.