Lignus-babies

[gabi]

I have to give a sad update on my lignus babies.

Every day I find more dead ones. They are now same picky eaters like the adults. Somehow we seem to not give them an ingredient they get in nature that let´s them survive over a longer time or to raise them up.

I do really hope, that Eric`s lignus-eggs are hatching and that his ones are developing better then my ones.

I really think, I have tried now all and everything (inclusive "dead" wood in different stadiums (white, red, brown...). Currently some of them only numble a bit on cucumber. They avoid every liquid food, touch no calcium, no spirulina, no lichen, no moos, no dead feeding-animals (left-overs from my reptiles),cat-food,dog-food, fish-food...... And I rarely find poop now, so they are not eating anything else in their tank.
I guess, that I will loose in the next weeks/days all of them.

I am giving it a (last) new try with a large group (10) Lignus in the viv where the remaining one from fatslug is in and if they ever have eggs, I don´t remove them and lets see what is happening in there. My single Lignus would like to mate now, but nobody in there, than himself. Poor snaily...Needs to wait quite a while, till his new tank-mates are here...

Kind regards,

Gabi

[Paul]

Sorry to here that Gabi, I have two last feeding suggestion if you havent' already tried it. I could only get my Megalobulimus to eat lettuce, they refused every other type of food until I tried slicing "leaves" off food. Sweet potato, apple and a whole host of other foods are now accepted because I slice it extremely thinly.

The other unexpected success was oyster shell. I found even the Megalobulimus eat it and they refuse cuttlefish. My other snails eat it non-stop until I take it out of the tank! So perhaps if the Lignus are also attracted to it, you could mix some food in with it, sort of a 50% shell/50% food mix.

[copigeon]

Unlucky gabi, hopefully someone can get the lignus breeding/surviving in captivity eventually. Good luck with the remainder.

Unrelated to the lignus, but your comment on the oystershell paul... You say they eat it non stop.
I get this with one tiger, to the point thats all he will do. Eat oystershell. Ive had to remove it because he was refusing all food, exclusively consuming ground oystershell.

Curious if its addictive :\

[gabi]

Thanks for that info Paul. The sliced food, I am already doing and they have a tiny piece of an oystershell in, but never go near that and move quick away, when I am sitting them on it. I haven´t found crushed or powdered ones here and the piece I have is from our supermarkets fresh-fish-section. Have to try if I can get it powdered.

copigeon: My tigermama always eats tons of cuttlefish and almost exclusively the 2 or 3 weeks before she is laying eggs.....

Kind regards,

Gabi

[eric2]

im sorry to hear that gabi keep us informed on how they are doing and if the new feeding works

[Val]

Really sorry to hear this gabi, you have tried SO hard with these babies, will keep my fingers crossed for the remaining feeding ideas.

Val

[Deleted]

awww I'm so sorry to hear that Gabi, its very sad.

wow can you feed snails Spirulina tablets? I've got a few of those.

My snails love oystershell too. Its great stuff.