rosiesnail2
Achatina immaculata
3 Albino Achatina Reticulata on sale with tank ♥️
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Post by rosiesnail2 on Feb 18, 2012 17:43:29 GMT
awesome! i lost my charger so I'll have more pics too soon x
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rosiesnail2
Achatina immaculata
3 Albino Achatina Reticulata on sale with tank ♥️
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Post by rosiesnail2 on Feb 18, 2012 17:57:43 GMT
Cool i made it a hot hot topic!
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saki114
Achatina immaculata
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Post by saki114 on Feb 18, 2012 18:00:52 GMT
Cool i made it a hot hot topic! nice
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Post by pinkunicorn on Feb 18, 2012 22:05:11 GMT
I knew this species is short-lived, but I guess I wasn't prepared for this. I just found the pale pink one stiff and unmoving. It went to sleep this morning into a hole one of the aspersas dug... and then it slept away. It doesn't react to anything so I'm quite sure it is dead. I put it back, though. I want to see what the two remaining slugs do.
I'm crying my eyes out. I got really attached to these slugs though I only had them for two months (excluding Sluggy). I had hoped for some babies before their natural lifespan came to an end... but I guess they did what they had to do: laid a lot of eggs and then prepared to die. There are some eggs from the last mating... I really hope they hatch so their effort in ideal conditions wasn't for nothing. I guess I kinda saw this coming as the slug refused its favourite food yesterday.... still not seeing its little pink eyestalks again hurts.
At least the aspersas are becoming active again
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Post by ness on Feb 18, 2012 22:16:35 GMT
Oh hun I'm really sorry.... People can say "it's only this, or only that", but when you grow attached to an animal it really can be so sad when they leave.... I hope those eggs hatch too. Please let us know. Hugs xx
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Post by pinkunicorn on Feb 19, 2012 14:59:46 GMT
Thanks ness, and everyone. Yeah. It's "just a slug" I didn't even name because I thought I'd let them out when it's warm... but at least they lived a bit longer than they would have outside. The two remaining ones seem still going strong. I saw them mating last night. Maybe I get more eggs? There is a lot of slime tracks around the dead slug... it seems to have attracted a lot of attention. But it has not been eaten as I expected. Makes me wonder what happened to the one that just disappeared from a closed tank? I'm really dreading finding dead slugs hidden in corners... soon moving the last of the furniture to the new house and it's from the room where the tank is during most nights. Poor things don't make it longer than a day unlike snails. Oh why do they escape, silly little things? I suspect that these slugs are born darker and turn paler as they age, btw. I noticed that with several of them, including the two I have now. So maybe they have a few months left. Maybe I will release them so they get to feel the spring, having been born near winter.
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saki114
Achatina immaculata
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Post by saki114 on Feb 19, 2012 16:11:41 GMT
im sorry 4 yur loss RIP slug
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Post by pinkunicorn on Feb 19, 2012 18:20:27 GMT
I put the sluggy in one of the flowerpots where she probably was hatched in. I'd do the same to the two missing, if I find them.
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Post by pinkunicorn on Feb 22, 2012 21:37:43 GMT
Mmmm... we love carrots! Everybody loves carrots! Funny slug faces. But they're so cute when they sleep like this next to each other.
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saki114
Achatina immaculata
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Post by saki114 on Feb 22, 2012 22:17:11 GMT
Love them!!! excellent photography if u ask me awesome I feed my snails carrots 2 ;D they love it
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Post by ness on Feb 24, 2012 18:40:37 GMT
:-*Awww! I just love those slug faces! It's as if they're saying "eh-who's there? you woke us up!" Lovely photos.
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rosiesnail2
Achatina immaculata
3 Albino Achatina Reticulata on sale with tank ♥️
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Post by rosiesnail2 on Feb 24, 2012 22:24:45 GMT
Lol adorable! RIP Slugs. I guess I was I don't know. My Fulcia (1/3) died and I was just shocked, come to think about it I know its horrible but I was... excited? I was intruged. At the time I wasn't sure it I likes or disliked big snails. Now I love 'em but to be honest I can't really picture myself crying... I'm going to shut up now 'cause I sound really cruel Any-ways, Rosie RIP
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saki114
Achatina immaculata
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Post by saki114 on Feb 25, 2012 15:22:44 GMT
RIP slugs.... just wondering r ur snails h. Aspersa??? ;D
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Post by pinkunicorn on Feb 25, 2012 16:06:27 GMT
Yup! They're aspersas.
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saki114
Achatina immaculata
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Post by saki114 on Feb 25, 2012 16:26:10 GMT
Nice I own aspersas too ;D
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Post by pinkunicorn on Feb 25, 2012 20:33:21 GMT
Aspersas are very nice snails. They come for free, and they are easy to keep. And despite being small and nothing out of ordinary they have personality! I'm posting the baby pics from the other topic in this "family album", too: But first, a proud parent. Well, possibly. Actually I hope this is an uncle or aunt or other relative. I'd like the babies to be from the passed-away slugs, so that they got their genes passed on to the next generation! This darling still has her chances to get some babies into the world (I am leaving a few eggs here and there, though removing most now...) Annnnd... babies! We're so transparent that the camera's focus doesn't find us when we climb on the plastic wall... Before hatching: Just hatching:
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Post by pinkunicorn on Mar 1, 2012 16:24:21 GMT
Just two random pics I took of the aspersas while playing sluglet paparazzi. Roxy has had this weird... bubble thingy on his lip for months. It looks very odd, but doesn't seem to bother him. I first thought it's in his mouth, but it's a bit lower. Baby noms on cucumber. She's been withdrawn into her shell quite a lot lately, but came out to eat a bit after she dropped from the ceiling when I removed the lid, poor thing.
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Post by pinkunicorn on Mar 26, 2012 12:49:26 GMT
I went snail-hunting on the old house's balcony (we still own the flat and it's right next door, so I can't call it a proper snail hunting adventure, lol) and I found a little something hidden under a piece of rotten wood in the compost bin that has yet to move to the new balcony: (btw, the spoon in the picture gives no scale to the eggs, it's a HUGE soup spoon meant for serving, not a normal table spoon...) I wonder what comes out of the eggs. I suspect more little sluggies given the placement of the eggs (which would be great, then I have babies of two populations!), but we'll see! Also found a ton of empty Aspersa shells (mostly young ones; shame there were no snails inside) and a couple of tiny shells that I didn't yet pick up to see if there's anybody inside or not. They are shaped more like a GALS shell, only they are smaller than my pinky fingernail. I've seen those empty shells in the soil before, and some are currently in the snailery, too. I'm hoping to find some living ones instead of the mystery shells only. It's such a nice balcony for people who like little critters, but a horror to people who scream when they see something living in the corner of their sunbathing lounge. I'm going to miss it, the new balcony doesn't seem as promising for snail-hunting. Maybe I need to ask the new people to let me come collect all the critters they see, tell them I'm a species-collector, hehe.
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Post by pinkunicorn on Mar 31, 2012 20:37:15 GMT
Oh, sad/happysad to see the older photos of the slugs that have passed away... especially the pic with the two adults sleeping in a pot, skin to skin. Glad I took the photos, even if looking at them now makes me miss them. Anyway, I got some new photos. Baby (the aspersa, it's what he's called) dropped off the lid as I opened it (he's a weird snail, makes a slime film for the day and doesn't sleep foot attached to the wall like the rest do, thus he drops off easily, poor thing). I didn't pick him up right away, but when I did... this is what I saw. Two sluglets had crawled into his shell. I decided to move the snailies into a separate box then, in case the babies irritated the snails. They've never seemed bothered by the slug slime or anything, though. I've been thinking of releasing them sluggies to the wild... but then I look into the box, lift a salad leaf and this is what I see: a slimey pile of slug, under every leaf. They really seem to seek each other's company for sleeping and just slugging about. They even share the tastiest bits of food most of the time, I see three individuals feeding on the same pellet without a fight... And I start wondering if these individuals would live happier in captivity, after all. They're used to things that would be impossible for them in the wild, most of the time. It's a very short-lived species, too, so I don't know how well they'd adjust. I think I'll just keep them all and train them to be my living compost. With about 70 of them, they should be able to demolish some amount of kitchen waste, hehe. And here's a handful or two of them sluglets. And the last remaining adult. He's doing pretty good, and I hope he'll do fine for a good while more, despite being quite old for this species. I'm quite curious how long the little ones will live with the rich diet I'm feeding them. It's probably quite a bit more protein than what they'd get in nature, and yet a bit less than what they'd eat if given choice (I only give them pellets every other day, they'd eat them every night if given). Here in the picture I've just put the pellets in. It takes about 20 seconds for the first itty bitty to smell and find the yummy bites. And here's Baby again. I gave them some soaked dried fig and date to try and discovered that my snail is a real culinarist. He had a selection of fig, date, tomato, cucumber, lettuce and goldfish pellet and he kept taking a bite or two of each, then moving to the next, and to the next... for a few hours!
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Post by Evil Angel on Mar 31, 2012 20:55:13 GMT
I want some sluggies! they look sooo cute <3
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Post by pinkunicorn on Apr 1, 2012 22:46:54 GMT
Sluggies are awesomely lovely creatures, and so underrated. They can do all these funny things that snails can't, such as stuff themselves into a broccoli: There's about five sluglets hiding in the broccoli. Shame the pic is blurry. I also have a celery stalk remain (organic, as celery has lots of pesticides usually) planted in the tank. This one time, which I sadly didn't get a picture of, it was stuffed to the brim with slugs. They sleep between the remaining 5-6 small stalks and leaves. I'll try to get a picture next time I see them doing it.
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Post by pinkunicorn on Apr 1, 2012 23:42:59 GMT
Umm this isn't a snail picture, but the pile of slug reminded me of it a lot so posting it here. Pile of puppy. Some to-be seeing-eye pups.
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Post by pinkunicorn on May 18, 2012 19:32:02 GMT
A friend brought me a gift. I offered him a tasty dinner of fish food to welcome him to his new home. He seemed to enjoy it, given just how much he ate. Four or five pellets AND a shrimpy thingy! After dinner he explored my hand a bit. Now, he's got a belly full and he's done his post-dinner brisk slime-about, so it's time to find a nice place on the box wall and settle for the night. I put some strawberry, blueberry, tomato and spinach for him to munch on when he wakes up. Blueberries are all the rage in the other slug tank right now, so maybe this little Limax maximus will fancy blueberries as well. He's somewhere between 6 and 8 cm long when not extended, and my friend said that she's seen some HUGE (20cm) slugs in her garden as well... so I assume this individual is still a juvenile, and not a smallish adult. Hopefully he'll grow into a big boy. Just need to find a mate for him. Hmm... looks like he woke up and zoomed for the extra pellets I just put in five minutes ago. He didn't eat all the shrimpy things, but oh yes, there's room for more fish pellets! All my slugs go mental when they just smell these pellets! I also have the third generation of Deroceras invadens hatching now. Sooooo cute! And there's one with a single eyestalk again.
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Post by pinkunicorn on May 19, 2012 9:25:42 GMT
Oh my. Looks like Mr. Maximus arrived with a few hidden passengers! So far I've found three of them: chocolate brown tiny sluglets. They're about the size of the smaller (but not the smallest) Deroceras sluglets in the picture above, only dark brown. I wonder if they are L. maximus or some Deroceras species! And I dearly hope I didn't damage one... I accidentally squished the second I spotted as I was trying to catch it to move into the baby yoghurt box. It seemed somewhat distressed but moved after. Now there's one choccy sluggy on a piece of spinach that is not putting out eyestalks when prodded... I will check it in a little while again. Sometimes the babes behave like that even if nothing is wrong and I am not sure if this is the one that got almost squished. Maybe it's just in a shock from the transfer and being handled at all. I hope so. In that case it should recover soon.
I will add a photo later, when them choccy sluglets have settled in to their new accommodation.
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Post by pinkunicorn on May 29, 2012 20:01:26 GMT
Sadly one of the brown babies died. The two others have grown (still didn't remember to take a photo, though...). I think they're Deroceras, but whether they're the same species or just the same family as the lighter babes remains to be seen. They need to reach adulthood and start mating to be fully identified. I was trawling through the substrate of my baby box a moment ago, and found the little uni-tentacled baby I'd seen some days ago. He was still very, very small, not unlike the little one from the previous generation, that I believe didn't survive into adulthood in the end. So I was a little saddened, seeing that this baby didn't seem to be growing. He did begin eating fish food when offered, so that's an improvement from the first gen. baby, at the least. Then, to my great delight, I saw this baby. A much larger baby with just one eyestalk! This one must be the baby I found earlier, and he has grown a lot. He's orangey in colour, which means he's been eating fish food. He's not very large yet, but seems OK sized for his age, so there's a good chance he'll make it into adulthood. Two one-tentacled babies from these eggs (several batches from several adults, or, first generation babies). Who knows if there's even more coming, given the number of eggs that has yet to hatch!
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