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Post by HazelSnail on Jan 7, 2016 15:49:22 GMT
They are beautiful!
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Post by HazelSnail on Jan 5, 2016 0:53:28 GMT
Awwh, so cute! I love how their antenna droop down when they eat
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Post by HazelSnail on Jan 5, 2016 0:34:56 GMT
That's an awesome idea! I draw a lot of different things, and snails are very fun to do, though I haven't done one in a while... I need to draw more snails. Pretty much all me drawings are on my Instagram account; hazeldrawsthings
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Post by HazelSnail on Dec 15, 2015 1:21:34 GMT
Yet another update: Mystery solved. Yesterday I noticed small white "bugs" crawling around in a pile of snail feces. I looked at a few under my microscope, and they were mites of some kind. When I looked closely at the tank, I noticed them on the snails near their pneustome (close to where the shell damage was occurring). Seems at the time, it wasn't enough of an issue for me to see the mites, but as they grew and reproduced, it became noticeable. I sterilized their tank, baked all substrate and décor, and gave all the snails distilled water baths. Since then, I haven't noticed any more mites, or snails rasping at their shells. So it seems that the mites were irritating the snail, and in attempt to get at them, he was biting his shell, and he improved in a different tank because there were fewer mites. Hopefully that's the end of my mite troubles...
Although it's not really related, I find it interesting that the mite I looked at under the microscope was being parasitized by a mite of another species... I had no idea that mites did that, and it's sort of funny haha
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Post by HazelSnail on Dec 11, 2015 20:38:04 GMT
Just an update: The worse off snail seems to be doing much better after a few days in isolation. He seems to be repairing his shell rapidly . The less effected one hasn't gotten any worse, but also no better as of yet. Seems to me it was just some sort of random fluke, and being in a calmer environment alone gave the snail enough rest to recover. Huh, humans can get biting habits, like Cashell said, that can get worse or develop due to stress... Maybe shell-rasping is just the snail equivalent of human nail biting
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Post by HazelSnail on Dec 11, 2015 20:30:09 GMT
Snail genetics seem to be very interesting. The two "runts" I have are the offspring of a single parent snail... I wonder if it's more likely to occur in snails with less genetic diversity?
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Post by HazelSnail on Dec 10, 2015 20:24:04 GMT
I have the exact same thing with two of my 13 or so zachrysia porsovia babies... they're about the same age as yours, too. Hope someone on here has an answer, I am very curious about this
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Post by HazelSnail on Dec 7, 2015 20:30:42 GMT
Possibly... I don't know, I've never had any issues with my snails before. I have isolated him, and will keep an eye on it. Hopefully he stops before too much more damage is done...
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Post by HazelSnail on Dec 7, 2015 17:52:55 GMT
Not sure about anything I could rub on it... The cuttlebone definitely gets rasped, there are always growing bite marks in it, and I see it in their poop. I have also tried egg shells, but they don't seem to go over as well. As for their tank; it has eco earth substrate, lots of moss mats, small moss coated stones, sticks for climbing, and a little hollow log hide.
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Post by HazelSnail on Dec 6, 2015 19:19:14 GMT
Well, as the title suggests, I'm having an issue with one of my young zachrysia porsovias... it's eating away at the lip of it's shell, and it is continuing to get worse. They all have access to cuttlebone and a variety of foods, so I'm not sure what could be causing it... I do know that they will sometimes rasp at their shells to smooth them, but this guy is definitely not doing that. And, now another has started to do the same, but not nearly as bad. I did recently move them into a larger enclosure, No clue if that would have anything to do with it or not. I will be quarantining the two that are having this issue, just in case. But, is there anything else I can do to prevent further damage, and does anyone have any idea what's causing this? I have never had an issue like this before. The picture doesn't really show the damage all that well on it's own; zooming in helps show just how much of his upper body is now exposed... Not sure how to upload photos from my laptop, so here's a link: imgur.com/a/tdH4T
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Post by HazelSnail on Dec 5, 2015 21:26:49 GMT
They're adorable! It's crazy how small they start out, and how big they get!
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Post by HazelSnail on Dec 4, 2015 19:11:02 GMT
That's so cool! Never would have thought of a snail making pearls, but it makes sense!
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Post by HazelSnail on Nov 28, 2015 2:34:10 GMT
Probably not helpful at all, but the first picture reminds me a bit of a mantle tear injury on a snail... Not a clue if it's even possible for a slug to get that kind of injury. Poor guy, I hope he is able to pull through, and that someone more knowledgeable can help!
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Post by HazelSnail on Nov 24, 2015 0:38:23 GMT
Nice! I only have one young one at the moment, and I plan on finding more. I love the one I do have, it seems very active, and has a very pretty colored shell and body!
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Post by HazelSnail on Nov 23, 2015 0:26:14 GMT
Thanks, everyone!
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Post by HazelSnail on Nov 19, 2015 2:49:02 GMT
Haha, hi! It's a small internet xD
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Post by HazelSnail on Nov 19, 2015 1:35:44 GMT
Hello! First off, I just have to say that it's so amazing to find a community of snail lovers; not enough people are interested in these amazing animals, and it's rather frustrating to try and talk to people in real life about them. Not exactly sure what else to say here, so I suppose I'll start with how I became interested in (and slightly obsessed with) snails... It all started about five years ago, when I found my first snail, Ember, whom I'm happy to say is still going strong . For the longest time I had no idea what species she was, and it wasn't until earlier this year that I Identified her as a mesodon normalis. In the time since then, I have accumulated the following snails: Asian tramp snail x4 Cuban brown snail x1 adult, x13 babies Queen crater snail x1 (baby) Mesodon normalis x2 Unknown mesodon species x2 Mountain tigersnail x1 adult, x11 babies southern flatcoil x2 Triodopsis picea x2 As well as two garden arion slugs, and three dusky arion slugs. As for non snail/slug pets, I have a few millipede species, two american toads, a gray tree frog, and an assassin bug nymph who I'm raising. Random things about me since that seems to be the thing to do when introducing yourself: I love anything related to science or science fiction, I enjoy designing fantasy creatures on paper as well as with sculpting and writing. And... yeah.. that's about it. And sorry if I posted this in the wrong place or something...
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