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Post by shaydeesnail on Aug 14, 2012 16:11:13 GMT
I love your slug pictures, they really make me appreciate slugs! Hmm could your tiny snail be a new born Oxychilus? I have problems with millions of them appearing in the compost and being born into the tank where I find them eating eggs! They spend most of the time under the soil so if I miss even a couple they keep breeding and laying single tiny eggs scattered around the depths of the soil so I can't find them ;__;
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Post by pinkunicorn on Aug 14, 2012 18:50:22 GMT
Thanks! I'm glad I'm helping the sluggy variant slimeyfaces get some love from snaily lovers. They are really awesome personalities once people get past the thicker slime and softer body oddness compared to snails. I was thinking maybe it's an Oxy baby (or, they, since there's at least three of them) but my oxy has never been in this box! They were found in my baby/egg Deroceras box, where I've also kept baby aspersas, fulicas and my single Cochlicopa. But it also doesn't have shell like Cochlicopas, they have long shells. And it's just one Cochlicopa.
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Post by pinkunicorn on Aug 16, 2012 15:02:13 GMT
Here's a clip of my leopard slugs mating. Well, trying to mate anyway. It's 4x times the original speed as the clip was 12 minutes long. I've reviewed it a few times and I noticed that I never see the other slug's genitals come out. Which makes me think he's mated before and gotten apophallated! Oh, the picture is tilted oddly, I wasn't aware it was filming it like this when I was making the video. I could have rotated it when editing, but it would have reduced the size quite drastically so I decided against it. So tilt your head a bit, or just imagine the slugs going down on the rope, not going right on the rope. I find the expressions of the smaller slug quite hilarious around midway of the video... She doesn't have a name yet, but perhaps I should call her Arlene, since the big one's called Garfield. Arlene might just be the "man" of this couple, though, since Garfield looks to have lost "his" male genitals.
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Post by leila on Aug 22, 2012 2:56:52 GMT
that ball of stuff that fell out at the end was the sperm right? if that keeps happening maybe you could do some experimentation with some kind of artificial insemination
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Post by pinkunicorn on Aug 22, 2012 6:15:42 GMT
Yeah I was thinking how does the slug turkey baster method work! Haha. I'm getting a big and tall tank once I figure how to have it delivered and once the slugs are settled there I will observe their mating again.
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Post by shaydeesnail on Aug 22, 2012 10:41:42 GMT
Have you still got the tiny babies? If any of your substrate or moss is from outside they could still be little Oxy babies, they can be sneaky
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Post by pinkunicorn on Aug 22, 2012 15:59:55 GMT
All the soil I use now has been in 250C oven before I put it in. But I did find more microbabies! They're all in a box where I kept my Deroceras slugs. I also kept my aspersa babies and the fulica babies there for a while, and the single C.lubrica lived there a long while. Now I could not find him which is a shame if he has died.
How big are oxy babies? These are just 1mm or less shell diameter.
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Post by pinkunicorn on Aug 25, 2012 22:07:47 GMT
Photodump time. I've taken lots of snaily pics and forgot to post... so here's lots and lots of them! My beautiful Arlene on the morning after s/he escaped. We turned over the sofa and half the living room until found a slime trail to follow and there s/he was attached to the other terrarium. I was pretty shocked by the escape and so happy to find the slug a little dry after 6+ hours without moisture, but alive. Here was the tank setup for leopard mating. And that's where Arlene escaped from, as the lid failed... The other evening I had set a plate with snaily and sluggy dinners on the sofa, and put the Arion tank's lid next to it. One resident was a little hungry and stole a nibble before the food got into the tank! Synchronised babies! They were moving at the same time to the same directions, funny things. And here we are kissing... The new arrivals. Notice the eyestalks peeking from the substrate. He was just waving tentacles whilst remaining buried in the moss for some time before coming out! Little sluggies go nuts when they get all their favourites... Blueberries, sweet corn, cooked carrot and fish food! Whee! This was a snailyback express ride! The bottom baby got scared of something and was racing like crazy! I have a feeling there will be sluglets sooner or later. These two Arions have been tailing all evening.
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Post by pinkunicorn on Sept 11, 2012 3:49:12 GMT
Goodness! Had the second sluggy escapade scare, with two heroes/heroines this time. It is 5:30am and I took a peek at my leopards as I always do if I get out of bed at night (drink, toilet, etc). I like to see them when they are most active. And active they are tonight! I usually use a taped cloth lid as it provides better ventilation than the standard lid. If I want to make it a bit warmer for them I use the aquarium lid however. It has slight slits but anything bigger I have taped just in case. Tonight it was plastic lid and it had failed somehow. I see slug poop on top of the lid and when I start investigating I find one slug attached to the outside of the lid. I count the slugs and still see one missing. Two escapees! Oh dear! Well, it has had a few hours of time to crawl around and is big, so finding is very possible. I get the flashlight and start looking under the shelf the slugarium sits on, behind it etc obvious places. Nothing. Then I look up and can't believe my eyes: there's a huge slug crawling high on the wall! I see her tracks, she had gone under the frame right of her. Well, easy to pluck off the wall and return to safety. With the cloth lid on! It seems to be the safest. Lesson of the night: slugs are sneaky and curious little things and need to be kept well locked up as pets for their own safety. Can't get too comfortable with measures that seem to work well, they might fail! And if they do and the slug gets lost inside a heated house s/he will have about 24 hours or less if crawling about a lot. Poor things with their soft bodies suitable for damp environments and not dry, heated spaces.
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Post by pinkunicorn on Sept 16, 2012 16:53:30 GMT
I was looking at old snaily photos, and saw one of Garfield from the day I got him. I thought he was pretty big then at 6cm... here he is on 18th May: And here he is today! And here's my standard fuli baby on 3rd August Here he is today:
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Post by rosiesnail2 on Oct 11, 2012 10:35:48 GMT
Wow so pretty! I love the leopard!
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Post by pinkunicorn on Oct 11, 2012 12:41:48 GMT
"Ladies, gentlemen and ladygentlemen! We welcome you to enjoy an evening with Cirque de Snaileil show! Tonight starring the world-famous slugrobat Snelle Slakkengang. Snelle was born a mere garden-variety slug of the clan Invadens, to parents with ancestry from the lands of Balconée. Zhe always dreamed of belonging to the clan Laeve, slugs famous for their inborn slugrobatics, a skill much needed in their native marshlands. But despite zher specietal disadvantage, Snelle trained hard from a young age to reach zher dreams.
Misterss Slakkengang specialises in aerial slugrobatics, performing breathtaking stretches, twists and twirls suspended by nothing but a thin rope of slime! Ladies, gentlemen and ladygentlemen, please give a warm welcome to misterss Snelle Slakkengang!"(Apologies for the bad image quality. Due to Snelle's performance depending (literally) on the ceiling of the slugarium, we had to document the show through the plastic walls, which significantly reduce the quality of the pictures.)
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Post by pinkunicorn on Nov 7, 2012 16:43:25 GMT
I haz albino sluglets. No unitentacles have hatched so far but there is at least four true albinos! Three pictured. And umm can I just say my hand looks giant next to the miniature slugs.
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Post by Evil Angel on Nov 7, 2012 19:05:57 GMT
I love the picture of Garfield on your hand, he looks huge and very handsome! Also love the albino slugs!! I want one! ;D
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Post by pinkunicorn on Nov 8, 2012 13:29:55 GMT
Garfield is a doll and I'm so happy I got him! He's also been healthy always and hopefully remains that way. I got moar babies.. it's a molluscan kindergarten in my house now! Cepaeas and aspersas. 1-2 days old. And more to hatch... I keep wondering how these guys ever reach adulthood considering how pesky curious they are! I keep popping little shells off the lid to keep them where the food and cuttle is. And they persistently keep going into dangerous places if left unchecked.
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Post by pinkunicorn on Nov 11, 2012 1:00:00 GMT
My beautiful Limax cinereoniger, a recent addition whom I named Alfie, got his favourite for dinner: shiitake mushroom with fish flakes on top. He doesn't eat much else than mushrooms, as the literature suggests as well, but fish flakes got him to eat a bit of apple when drizzled on top of the apple! But mushrooms are his natural diet, so mushrooms is what he gets every evening as the main part of his dinner. He also loves oyster mushrooms. Luckily the local supermarket sells shiitake, oyster shrooms and other specialty shrooms year round plus some seasonal extras, so I think I can give him a proper diet to keep him happy and healthy even without algae, which is another natural food these slugs eat. And of course, the fish food provides a welcome addition of protein and vitamins. I still need to try this fish algae tablet I have, if he'd like to eat that as well. OM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM He's gotten fatter since I took him from the box, within a week or something! He was a bit limp after a few days in the post but now he's plump and strong again. The amount of shrooms he's polished off, it's no wonder!
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Post by tsrebel on Nov 11, 2012 1:35:40 GMT
I'm not a huge fan of slugs, but I got a good laugh of your Snelle Slakkengang and Cirque de Snaileil show :-) Have you tried feeding your Limax cinereoniger lichens? Since they actually are a mix of algae and mushroom, it may be a hit (and could be stored dry until needed).
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Post by mewakitty on Dec 4, 2012 6:26:37 GMT
Your Garfield the slug is amazing! He's so giant, it's awesome. I used to see those slugs in Switzerland all the time. I haven't had much luck with my slugs (I got them by accident, but they all died by November). Anyway, did you get any more of those tiny snails? I had some Oxy babies a few months ago, and they are the tiniest little things ever! Probably about 1mm in diameter when they're born. Right now I'm raising a bundle of cepaeas, and I agree with you - the little turkeys sure love sleeping in dangerous places. I spend about 20 minutes every evening putting them back on the ground so that they eat food and calcium. Nice album!
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Post by pinkunicorn on Dec 4, 2012 18:55:20 GMT
Garfield says thanks!
I had 6 oxy babies hatch and they've grown big by now! I also got oxy mating pictures... lots of snaily pics in fact but I've not posted them thanks to picasa mobile gallery (where I store my photos) not allowing me to get the direct link to the photo on my phone anymore. I need to post from my computer, and I've not been able to do that now. I will try to get something posted this weekend.
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Post by pinkunicorn on Dec 19, 2012 14:45:26 GMT
I caught my poffertjes mating! Well, actually I interrupted them by accident.. and then I had to grab a photo asap. As fits this species, their genitals are NOT located next to the head, but under the belly. I circled the bit where the slugs were connected (though they didn't like my interruption and quickly disconnected themselves).
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Post by pinkunicorn on Dec 19, 2012 14:48:37 GMT
And here they are before I realised they were at it... I had to clean the bark so I proceeded to remove them from it. Oh if only I had known what those little tentacles were trying to tell me...
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Post by vallery on Dec 19, 2012 16:02:46 GMT
Amazing photos. I love all of them. Such great shots. When I got my leopard slug she was pregnant and laid eggs the little sluggies are just beginning to hatch. Should I keep them in a separate tank Pink? vallery
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Post by pinkunicorn on Dec 19, 2012 16:29:21 GMT
Oh my gosh! Congrats! I'm still waiting for eggs... but nothing. I'd take them separate, as they're so small when newly hatched. It'll be easier to feed and care for them in a smaller container, and of course easier to care for the mommy when you don't need to worry about damaging the babies.
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Post by malacophile on Dec 19, 2012 17:30:02 GMT
Such cute slugs and snails! I'm jealous of your cinereoniger. I'd love to get my hands on one (or a few dozen) of those. He looks so silly munching his shroom. Ahh... Slimy love. <3
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Post by vallery on Dec 20, 2012 23:29:01 GMT
Thanks pinkunicorn , I really lucked out by finding a leopard that I decided to keep that was actually pregnant. The wee babies are so sweet. I will move them into a separate tank it is hard to keep track of them in the tank I have Momma in. Looking forward to seeing more of your photos. vallery
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