lyco
Archachatina marginata
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Beer?
Oct 9, 2011 17:14:27 GMT
Post by lyco on Oct 9, 2011 17:14:27 GMT
So I've read in various places that GALS enjoy the occasional taste of beer due to the yeast acting as a growth stimulant or something along those lines. I'm in the UK so by beer would that be lager? Would cider be safe? Is it dangerous to snails that are around 3 months old ie is there an age restriction (what are the drinking laws like in snail communities )? And lastly I'm guessing it'd be given via a small drinking bowl? Thanks in advance to my plethora of questions lol.
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coyote
Archachatina papyracea
Cochleas ego amo
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Beer?
Oct 9, 2011 18:42:54 GMT
Post by coyote on Oct 9, 2011 18:42:54 GMT
Hi lyco, welcome to the forum. Yes, beer or lager would be the beverage in question. This issue has been discussed a couple of time on this forum, and there hasn't been a lot of consensus on it. It seems to be the yeast that the snails love.
Keep in mind that leaving a shallow dish of beer (or lager) in the garden is a common method people use to get rid of unwanted slugs and snails, because they crawl into the dish, become intoxicated from the alcohol and drown. So if you want to try this, I recommend proceeding with extreme caution and use only a drop or two at first, and just as a treat now and then.
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Beer?
Oct 9, 2011 18:45:25 GMT
Post by shustrik on Oct 9, 2011 18:45:25 GMT
In my opinion, yeast are harmful for snail's bowel and can be a cause of falling-out organs. Yeast makes CO2...
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lyco
Archachatina marginata
Posts: 15
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Beer?
Oct 9, 2011 21:43:10 GMT
Post by lyco on Oct 9, 2011 21:43:10 GMT
Thanks for the advice guys. I guess it sounds like one of those issues where there's alot of opinions and facts, some conflicting. Perhaps one to leave and think about another day lol. I've had my snails, 4 of them around 3 months old, for around a week so I'm still in that paranoid/learning stage lol. As for their species I have no idea, from looking on the website I have a feeling they're Marginatas, planning on uploading some pics and asking the marvelous people on this forum for their thoughts on the matter
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foghog
Achatina immaculata
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Beer?
Oct 10, 2011 4:21:02 GMT
Post by foghog on Oct 10, 2011 4:21:02 GMT
I'd say forget it lyco...even though I myself do give minuscule amounts of yeast to my snails to coax them into eating and getting used to/trained on different foods and they have always been fine. first of all....you cannot 'stop' snails from getting yeast...as anyone knows the real truth is, there are many strains of yeast all over the place floating in the air...you just won;t be able to get rid of them all anyways, and since snails eat outside, it's a given they are eating yeast and yeasty foods....it is just that simple.....it is for this reason that I say forget it, because they are already eating yeast....however, shustrik above saying it can be bad for them is right also....snails internals are not efficient at expelling gases, and when yeast divides/grows it does create gas....so to much equals not able to get rid of it all fast enough which equals internal pressure building up and it finding a way out one way or another (I brew beer and back many years before getting my ratios right, actual bottles would explode from internal pressure)....now if a bottle would explode from such...it isn't to hard to figure out a snails body isn't likely to hold up in comparison. thats my thoughts on the subject, probably nothing new no one else hasn't already said, it isn't needed to me except when I want them to get trained on a food earlier on and in that case I use rapid rise yeast in tiny granular s and only put like 3 of them on the food. has always worked for me. once they get used to eating whatever new food though (I might add I first put it in there to see if they will just eat it as is, and they usually will.) then I stop adding the yeast.
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lyco
Archachatina marginata
Posts: 15
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Beer?
Oct 10, 2011 15:36:09 GMT
Post by lyco on Oct 10, 2011 15:36:09 GMT
Thanks very much foghog, I think it's best if I forget about it. My aquisition of GALS was completely random, I'd never been particularly interested in them before but a work mate of my mother's keeps them and his wife hatched some eggs and then they were stuck as no one wanted them. It was more or less decided for me that I'd be having them lol, but my point is it was out of the blue and yet since I've had them I've been utterly fascinated. I've read just about everything I can find on them and can quite easily sit down and just watch them live lol. I'm still on my over the top information binge anyway and I found your post rather interesting, I had no idea there was such a reason for using yeast.
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coyote
Archachatina papyracea
Cochleas ego amo
Posts: 2,955
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Beer?
Oct 10, 2011 17:06:05 GMT
Post by coyote on Oct 10, 2011 17:06:05 GMT
Snails can live perfectly healthy lives without being fed yeast or beer, so it isn't a big deal not to give them any.
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