Daisy
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Post by Daisy on Jul 16, 2008 9:38:06 GMT
My parents, bless them, have very kindly given me a big bag of cuttlefish they collected from a recent trip to the beach. But is this safe to feed to my snails? I will boil the cuttlefish first to make sure it's clean, but will this be effective in getting rid of the salt? I've only ever used cuttlefish from pet shops before, and have no idea what they do to it to make it safe!
And on a completely unrelated note, has anyone tried their snails on red/green/yellow peppers? We always have a good stock of peppers in the fridge, and thought it might be worth a try.
Thanks!
Daisy
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Post by moonboots on Jul 16, 2008 10:01:55 GMT
I'm not too sure bout the cuttlefish but my snails seem to prefer red peppers over any other. It worth a try on all of them though, different snails have different tastes!
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Daisy
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Post by Daisy on Jul 16, 2008 10:05:42 GMT
Thank you, I will have a go with all the colours!  |
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goose
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Post by goose on Jul 16, 2008 12:32:05 GMT
I have never been lucky enough to find any cuttlefish so have always bought mine so I am note sure about the salt. I expect you would need to repeatedly boil and remove the water so as to elimate the salt - not sure what effect repeated boiling would have on the structure of the cuttlefish though. Never tried peppers with mine so let me know how you get on!
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Daisy
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Post by Daisy on Jul 16, 2008 12:36:32 GMT
Ah yes, I hadn't thought about how boiling would affect the cuttlefish itself, would it turn into a fillet of fish?! I think I'll try with a small piece and take it from there!
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goose
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Post by goose on Jul 16, 2008 12:40:23 GMT
Good idea! I'm sure there must be other people who have tried with beach collected cuttlefish who may post with some help.
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Rachel
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Post by Rachel on Jul 16, 2008 16:21:40 GMT
cuttlefish goes soggy and very smelly if immersed in water so boiling its going to end up seriously unpleasant as far as i can tell. it is full of salt and lots of nasty who knows whats if its from the beach. personally i would not risk it.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2008 18:36:17 GMT
i think the pet shop cuttlefish is treated...like they bleach it or something....so yeh i wouldn't risk the cuttlefish from the beach * Tread is locked, because there's too many same named treads around here about calsium. Let's write here next time we have some question or something else to say.. -> petsnails.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=feeding&action=display&thread=8421 - CroSSLeSS * |
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