Basil Experiment + Hulled Hemp Heart Seed Experiment
Dec 23, 2013 23:15:26 GMT
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Post by Cashell on Dec 23, 2013 23:15:26 GMT
I knew I was going to be trying one after the other, so rather than posting them in separate threads I'll have them posted here in two different posts. Since I conducted the basil experiment first, I'll post it first.
Day 1
The basil experiment begins!
Close-up of the snails around the breeding dish. Some u-turns going on here...
Don't really know what's going on here, but some of them just look confused while others run away.
I believe the yellow guy in the middle might have been one of the very few brown-lips to at least give it a rasp.
Neohelix albolabris trying the roots?
To my surprise most of the neos didn't seem to like it!
Close-up of a brown-lip investigating the foreign herb.
Little snail crawling on the basil leaf to have a nibble.
At this point, I think this experiment is going to be a megabomb!
Let's see how day 2 will turn out to be.
Day 2
It's a good thing I give my experiments two days before I make my conclusions because if I had just left it at day 1 I would have just called it a complete failure, but this proved me wrong! I don't know if the tigersnail there was actually responsible for that or not, but it's possible since I did see some of them hanging around it for while.
from above, I can see that there's a lot of gastropods chilling on the back wall cussing about how bad the basil must have tasted!
What?
Neo trio close-up on the wall.
Evidence of destruction here.
And here.
Kudos to you for trying some basil.
Flamed tigersnail caught on camera!
"Don't take my picture please!"
A light under the "tunnel".
Brown-lipped snail relaxing on a rock.
What can I say? Days 1 and 2 were really different form each other and I'm glad to know that my $3 CDN didn't go down the drain! Also, the basil gave the box a fantastic smell which is a wonderful thing considering that the seed experiments do the polar opposite!
Basil experiment ratings
Flamed tigersnails: Fair?
Neohelix albolabris: Poor-Fair
Brown lipped snails: Poor
Day 1
The basil experiment begins!
Close-up of the snails around the breeding dish. Some u-turns going on here...
Don't really know what's going on here, but some of them just look confused while others run away.
I believe the yellow guy in the middle might have been one of the very few brown-lips to at least give it a rasp.
Neohelix albolabris trying the roots?
To my surprise most of the neos didn't seem to like it!
Close-up of a brown-lip investigating the foreign herb.
Little snail crawling on the basil leaf to have a nibble.
At this point, I think this experiment is going to be a megabomb!
Let's see how day 2 will turn out to be.Day 2
It's a good thing I give my experiments two days before I make my conclusions because if I had just left it at day 1 I would have just called it a complete failure, but this proved me wrong! I don't know if the tigersnail there was actually responsible for that or not, but it's possible since I did see some of them hanging around it for while.
from above, I can see that there's a lot of gastropods chilling on the back wall cussing about how bad the basil must have tasted!
What?
Neo trio close-up on the wall.
Evidence of destruction here.
And here.
Kudos to you for trying some basil.
Flamed tigersnail caught on camera!
"Don't take my picture please!"
A light under the "tunnel".
Brown-lipped snail relaxing on a rock.
What can I say? Days 1 and 2 were really different form each other and I'm glad to know that my $3 CDN didn't go down the drain! Also, the basil gave the box a fantastic smell which is a wonderful thing considering that the seed experiments do the polar opposite!
Basil experiment ratings
Flamed tigersnails: Fair?
Neohelix albolabris: Poor-Fair
Brown lipped snails: Poor
some of the comments for the hemp heart experiment have been particularly lame and dull, but that's because it was a boring, dry boned experiment where so many of the snails become inactive which led me without much to say or observe, so I figured that it's better to write something than nothing at all. Many of the brown-lipped snails tried it for seconds and then would quickly make a u-turn after that. The flamed tigersnails seemed ok with it while the neohelixs seemed fine with it too, but it definitely wasn't something they liked as much as carrots, lettuce or cucumbers.
The photos in all these experiments have not been too good, but at the same time I think they're decent enough to work with. The camera quality is something that has been bugging me personally for a while in all my threads I've posted on this site, so I don't plan to post anymore pictures online at this point unless something goes wrong with my snails where I need help to diagnose the problem. Until then, I’m waiting to get a better camera for Christmas. The current camera I've been using only seems to do well in bright sun light, but even then its 2MP still lags behind when compared to other cameras.
I hope I managed to fix this in time before people start thinking........................... 
(Not that I ever would!)
. We used to get hemp plants growing in our garden where the uneaten bird seed landed...that was... amusing...