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Post by etana on Jun 27, 2015 18:59:17 GMT
I didn't post this in the Problems section because I don't know if it's a problem.
Why do young fulica rasp their mommy snail's foot edge? It seems she moves the foot away when they do that, but she keeps her face straight and doesn't do anything but eye stalk pats on the babies so she doesn't seem awfully stressed. No bubbles or anything. This happens a lot lately, it's easiest to see when they're climbing up the glass.
They get egg or meat based protein snacks about once a week and a lot of good nutritious veg like sweet potato.
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Zorst
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Post by Zorst on Jun 27, 2015 20:00:07 GMT
Personally I think its just babies trying things out n possibly getting some good bacteria off mum, as well as mum doing her job n being patient with them. I trust the adults to let the little ones know if they go to far and the seem to sort things out pretty quickly if the tiddlers step to far outta line.
Zorst
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Post by Selena on Jun 28, 2015 5:41:18 GMT
do the babies rasp on each other as well? or, only the mom? if she's not moving away (looking upset) whilst her babies rasping her, i don't think they'll really rasp her tissue, maybe there's something on her skin like calcium or food. sometimes, when a snail have been rested on the glass, there's a white calcium/slime? mark left. Many snails will eat that layer after a snail woke up and went away, maybe they are eating something like that. a few times, i saw a snail eating an other snails tissue and the one that was being eaten looked very upset and tried to escape, moving around with the body. though, even when a snail lost pieces of tissue: it's not a disaster, it will recover.
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Post by etana on Jun 28, 2015 5:58:01 GMT
Thanks Zorst and Selena. Indeed I see her hold small babies with her lips, or sit on bigger ones, for discipline. That happens if they do things like try to get into her breathing hole, so if the rasping went too far she indeed most likely would do more than just gently pat them with a straight face.
Selena, the babies seem to rasp each other a little bit too, but if mom is around, she's tastier and they go for her. Yesterday there were max four babies rasping her and she just hung there calmly! I don't see anything on her that looks like a wound. Maybe it's all fine.
True though that after sleeping on the glass, many snails appear to eat something off of it after waking up that's hard to see.
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Post by etana on Jun 29, 2015 8:29:05 GMT
Sure enough one baby rasped uncle Tauno's mantle and his shell's growing edge, he wasn't impressed at all and he retracted and pushed his shell edge against the glass so that it pinched the baby a bit. Nobody got hurt but you guys are right, they will do something if it goes too far.
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Zorst
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Post by Zorst on Jun 29, 2015 15:27:15 GMT
Marrow despite his Bulldozer nature is very gentle with his fan club and will put up with a lot from them but when they step out of line he's one big snail to get squshed a bit or slimed over by. very gently of course but he sure lets them know they went to far.
Zorst
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