Post by Cashell on Dec 1, 2013 4:37:37 GMT
Again...
I mean that snail was just hardly dead and it was on top of an apple, but I guess the fresh corpse of a brown-lipped snail must taste better than apple? This is also not the first time I've seen this as I do have some older pics (will post another day maybe) that have been caught on camera with the NAs preying on juvenile brown-lips, so sometimes I wonder why they do this to brown-lips and not each other or the flamed tigersnails? They don't really bother live healthy adults much, though I have witnessed an incident where there was a neohelix riding on top of a brown-lip, biting it until the brown-lipped snail get fed up and just gave it one hard bite right back at it, forcing it to stop and pull away. Of all the snails I keep, I have to say that neohelix's have some of the quirkiest/ most interesting behaviours: They don't like sleeping, make the weirdest faces, may sometimes sit in a spot for hours and leave slime-poo stains, mate in secret (they've laid eggs before, but I've never seen them mate yet), eat nearly everything you throw at them or will at least take nibbles, chill out with the tigersnails, and are eager to eat dead snails! Now I know snails do eat other snails in the wild, but..... I don't know. "Herbivorous" species only do it when they are dead and easily accessible. They do not actively stick their head all the way down the gutter to eat or at least I don't think they do? This doesn't happen often and sometimes they don't even bother dead or almost dead brown-lips which is why I haven't separated them, but for some reason it kind of shocks me and I can't quite put a touch on why it does. All I can do is continue to monitor both the wild snails and the captive for anymore suspicious behaviours and take necessary action if required.
Late night post, so I may fix this up tomorrow if necessary and delete this line.
I mean that snail was just hardly dead and it was on top of an apple, but I guess the fresh corpse of a brown-lipped snail must taste better than apple? This is also not the first time I've seen this as I do have some older pics (will post another day maybe) that have been caught on camera with the NAs preying on juvenile brown-lips, so sometimes I wonder why they do this to brown-lips and not each other or the flamed tigersnails? They don't really bother live healthy adults much, though I have witnessed an incident where there was a neohelix riding on top of a brown-lip, biting it until the brown-lipped snail get fed up and just gave it one hard bite right back at it, forcing it to stop and pull away. Of all the snails I keep, I have to say that neohelix's have some of the quirkiest/ most interesting behaviours: They don't like sleeping, make the weirdest faces, may sometimes sit in a spot for hours and leave slime-poo stains, mate in secret (they've laid eggs before, but I've never seen them mate yet), eat nearly everything you throw at them or will at least take nibbles, chill out with the tigersnails, and are eager to eat dead snails! Now I know snails do eat other snails in the wild, but..... I don't know. "Herbivorous" species only do it when they are dead and easily accessible. They do not actively stick their head all the way down the gutter to eat or at least I don't think they do? This doesn't happen often and sometimes they don't even bother dead or almost dead brown-lips which is why I haven't separated them, but for some reason it kind of shocks me and I can't quite put a touch on why it does. All I can do is continue to monitor both the wild snails and the captive for anymore suspicious behaviours and take necessary action if required.
Late night post, so I may fix this up tomorrow if necessary and delete this line.
