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Post by inky on Sept 29, 2013 9:22:02 GMT
Okay, so,
We don't really have many, well, exotic snails and slugs here. The only snails I've seen are garden snails, garden slugs and vineyard snails from my school. I'm wondering if I'm somehow doing anything wrong in searching and if there's anything I can use to bait them in? I know mushrooms attract slugs from my own experience and that cat food attracts a lot of little garden bugs, but the cats get to it before anything else can usually. If you can give me any tips on finding snailies in my garden, that would be very helpful.
Another quick but slightly silly question that I think I know the answer to: Is there any way I can tell normal snails have the albino gene and if so is there a way to bring it out in breeding? If not, is there any way to find an albino without waiting years for one to just come by?
Thanks if you can answer any of these!
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Post by crucify on Sept 29, 2013 11:50:53 GMT
Slugs and snails love beer. Set up a non-lethal beer trap, there's plenty of tutorials out there made by angry gardeners. I don't think you can identify a snail unaffected by a gene but carrying it. I suppose over time you could breed the generations until it becomes the dominant gene, but it'd take a bit of luck and a lot of time.
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inky
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Post by inky on Sept 29, 2013 12:50:59 GMT
Slugs and snails love beer. Set up a non-lethal beer trap, there's plenty of tutorials out there made by angry gardeners. I don't think you can identify a snail unaffected by a gene but carrying it. I suppose over time you could breed the generations until it becomes the dominant gene, but it'd take a bit of luck and a lot of time. Well, I'm a bit too young to buy beer and my parents don't drink the stuff so that won't work very well =P I've considered finding light snails and just breeding them together and hoping for the best, but I can't house all the snails in the tank that I have so it would be cruel to wait until they produce enough colour for me to see if they're albino or not. Fortunately as I've been thinking of selling my fish, I'll have a larger tank and can try this method out later. Thanks~ |
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Post by inky on Sept 29, 2013 12:51:09 GMT
Slugs and snails love beer. Set up a non-lethal beer trap, there's plenty of tutorials out there made by angry gardeners. I don't think you can identify a snail unaffected by a gene but carrying it. I suppose over time you could breed the generations until it becomes the dominant gene, but it'd take a bit of luck and a lot of time. Well, I'm a bit too young to buy beer and my parents don't drink the stuff so that won't work very well =P I've considered finding light snails and just breeding them together and hoping for the best, but I can't house all the snails in the tank that I have so it would be cruel to wait until they produce enough colour for me to see if they're albino or not. Fortunately as I've been thinking of selling my fish, I'll have a larger tank and can try this method out later. Thanks~ |
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Post by crucify on Sept 29, 2013 12:55:43 GMT
Yeast works too if you can get hold of it, that's why they love beer so much. Baking yeast should do well enough.
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Dumbledore
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Post by Dumbledore on Sept 29, 2013 15:17:29 GMT
You can try leaving out a snail buffet with cucumber, lettuce, fish food, watermelon, and all the snaily favorites. Or just go out after a rain at night and pull them off of the leaves.
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Post by malacophile on Sept 29, 2013 19:05:19 GMT
Or mushrooms. When I was on vacation recently, I used mushroom scraps to bait them. It yielded mostly slugs, but the results were fantastic. Any mushroom will do. It works better to set them next to a log or something else they can hide under. When they're done eating, they'll hide there for the night and you can collect them at your leisure the next day.
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Post by inky on Sept 30, 2013 1:08:32 GMT
Or mushrooms. When I was on vacation recently, I used mushroom scraps to bait them. It yielded mostly slugs, but the results were fantastic. Any mushroom will do. It works better to set them next to a log or something else they can hide under. When they're done eating, they'll hide there for the night and you can collect them at your leisure the next day. Yup, I already know about the mushrooms but thanks anyway! For some reason, the slug population has boomed overnight, I can't move around in my garden at night without nearly stepping on one now! Again, thanks~ |
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Post by inky on Sept 30, 2013 1:08:56 GMT
You can try leaving out a snail buffet with cucumber, lettuce, fish food, watermelon, and all the snaily favorites. Or just go out after a rain at night and pull them off of the leaves. This is a really good idea, thanks! It'll work well I assume. |
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Post by inky on Sept 30, 2013 1:09:21 GMT
Yeast works too if you can get hold of it, that's why they love beer so much. Baking yeast should do well enough. Ah, okay, that's useful too. Thanks very much! |
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Post by malacophile on Sept 30, 2013 2:11:59 GMT
Just be sure to mix it with sugar! It won't work too well otherwise. The sugar makes it reproduce and give off that yeasty smell gastropods love.  |
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