Interesting discoveries in behavior

[ness]

Jun 21, 2011 11:19:36 GMT crossless said:

Hmm.. Can snails really dislike substrate if they don't like it? I added some peat/bark/woodchip mixed compost mix in normal peat and now my huge 10cm shell lenght snail sleeps in sealing?! o.O Tigers don't usually sleep in sealing. I guess I need to add so much peat on top of that peat/bark/woodchip mix that it don't bother snails anymore. I'm litte confuced here.

Yes I think snails can dislike some kinds of substrate. It may be the bark and wood chip that is unpleasant for him, my Mum, a keen gardener, finds that using woodchip and bark around her plants discourages slugs and snails.

[crossless]

Yeh. I added peat on top of it and now he likes to be on ground too.

[crossless]

Now I have third tiger. He went under moss right away with others to sleep really nice comfy and snuggle. They seem to enjoy moss and leaves so don't need to bury in soil maybe it makes them feel safe so no one can find them easily.

[prowljazz]

Sept 18, 2010 22:16:43 GMT coyote said:

Here's a pic of Remington sleeping on the side of the tank with his eyestalks drooping down.

Droppy Eyestalks ;D ;D ;D I'm just Glad that I put My cup of Tea down before I looked....

Thanks for sharing

[prowljazz]

Prowl and Jazz have just fallen alsleep on My hand..... Jazz is doing the Droppy Eyestalks Thingy.... Prowl has gone right into His shell....

[Cyclops]

My two snails seemed to have 'paired' They are always together next to eachother in the tank. I cant seperate them because they retract back into their shells and act ill, but when i put them back they are fine. I've had them both since they were tiny shells, and theyve had multiple batches of eggs together. I'm not sure if snails normally 'Mate for life' But mine seem to have done that.

[latebloomer]

I noticed that my two fulicas come uot to feed at different times and never seem to rest together in the same part of the tank. They change times and places but never together. My others are in two groups of three and it is always one out or two out together but never all three. Two rest together but one is always on its own both groups. I can't easily tell them apart so I don't know yet if they change places. Interesting..

[snailsmith]

Since giving them a new, bigger tank, my two snails have taken to sleeping on the lid, hanging upside down like bats. They used to always dig and sleep in the soil. They seem ok in every other way, I think they just don't like their new home!

[latebloomer]

If I disturb my fulicas they register their disapproval by hanging on the roof of the tank like strange exotic fruit. They spent the days up there in the hot weather too.

[coyote]

Mine do that every time there is a major disturbance in the tank. Once they get used to the changes, they come back down from the lid and begin acting normally again, after a couple of days.

[crossless]

I once did walk in middle of the night when it's really bright summer night and you could see clearly before dawn.

I noticed that snails were loads of bigger on areas where there was really much plantation around maybe hiding and good nutritional soil gives them better change grow larger and no need to worry if somebody eats them.

Then I walked to place where wasn't as much plantation snails were much smaller maybe it's harder to grow big because not much place to hide and not as much nutritional ground to provide their food.

In places where there isn't much places to hide snails always dropped themselves to ground if you touched near them see more closely what kind of colors they have on their shells. Places where there is no worries getting eat by predator snails didn't bother even when I moved plants to see better what they were doing..

Interesting.

[elegans]

Are snails finicky about the kind of bedding they prefer? I kept mine in a glass pyrex dish with some lettuce while I was looking for a proper home for him, and he seemed fine. Now I've got him a bigger enclosure with a nice cushy coir bed and he won't go on it!

[graemepryce]

A lot of mine ( different species ) sleep with all or part of their bodies or eyestalks out. I have never seen any snail do this in the wild though. It tends to make me think this is a learned behaviour due to lack of any predators in the tank because mine are definitely asleep. They seem to wake up with a bit of a start if I spray them which can be quite funny!

[elegans]

Jun 25, 2013 19:31:16 GMT graemepryce said:

A lot of mine ( different species ) sleep with all or part of their bodies or eyestalks out. I have never seen any snail do this in the wild though. It tends to make me think this is a learned behaviour due to lack of any predators in the tank because mine are definitely asleep. They seem to wake up with a bit of a start if I spray them which can be quite funny!

Mine does that too! I think he sleeps more often out of his shell than in, actually. Sometimes his eyestalks are fully retracted, and sometimes they're half out. How do I know he's sleeping when the eyestalks are out? They droop with gravity. It's so cute.

Also, mine has a tendency to actually bend his eyestalks down to examine anything that interests him (like a treat, or a new substrate). You'd think snails wouldn't use their eyestalks to "see" in the way that humans do, so it's really cute and funny to see them do things (on occasion) that humans can intuitively understand.

[graemepryce]

I've seen that too. You wouldn't think they could see well enough to want to do that but I suppose it's all relative. They don't know what it is like to have better eyesight so they use what they have.

[pinkunicorn]

The other night I caught an aspersa sleeping halfway out of her shell. A wild one, too. This was where she had just been feeding with a hundred or so other snails and slugs, so perhaps she was just napping. During daytime all the snails I see here are tightly packed into their shells and high off the ground, never sleeping on the ground. I think the preference for high places is definitely a protection against predators like hedgehogs.

I've a piccy of the snail, need to upload it as proof later.

[Dumbledore]

My dad was drinking a beer today. I got a few drops of his beer and put them on Sluggy's bark climbing thingy. Then I put a drop on my finger and held it in front of Sluggy and he just slimed up my hand and sat there until I made him get back in his tank. Usually he needs a big of coaxing. Like a lot.