rosiesnail2
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Post by rosiesnail2 on Dec 28, 2011 17:48:04 GMT
You know I think you're right they do look slightly diffent to the ones in england! I live in the west midlands. I live opposite a field and often get slugs often more than snails and always dispised them but you know, that one is pretty cute
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rosiesnail2
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Post by rosiesnail2 on Jan 20, 2012 10:08:31 GMT
Cute pics I love 'em What breed of slugs? and where found?
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Post by pinkunicorn on Jan 24, 2012 21:59:57 GMT
I've now ID'd them as Deroceras invadens, after seeing them mate. Lol, they go in yin-yang circles wagging tails, bash each other with their penises and lunge at each other biting with the radula... quite a show! Here's two quick shots of them slugs I just took, as I saw them all sleeping under the same piece of pottery. They looked so cute there, but apparently got a little disrupted by me lifting the shard to get a better picture as they started a group fight then. I put them back to the box asap so they'd calm down.
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Post by ness on Jan 24, 2012 22:21:22 GMT
I like that set-up you have for them, looks like a perfect place for them to hide. they sound like right characters too!
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Post by pinkunicorn on Jan 30, 2012 20:23:17 GMT
Oh, forgot to mention where the slugs were found... On the balcony, haha, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Here's another photo-comic of silly snails doing silly things. Unfortunately I forget to reload my camera's batteries and thus only have cell phone camera at hand when funny stuff happens in the snailery. Baby tries to be the third wheel: "OH HAI can I join?" "Oh I need to be here and not down there..." "NNNGH let me in!" "But... but... but..." "I want TOO!" "I'll just go cry in the corner then..."
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rosiesnail2
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Post by rosiesnail2 on Jan 30, 2012 21:09:26 GMT
Aww Lol nice captions! I've never seen a snail mate or lay eggs All of the people on here are successful breeders and me? I've only ever seen a batch of eggs scattered and abandoned my my fulicias and a pearly baby when it hatched then died I hope my Retics prove me they can hatch eggs!
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Post by pinkunicorn on Jan 30, 2012 21:25:50 GMT
I'm not having much luck with babies... my snails sure love to mate, but they don't lay eggs that much. And what little they lay, I haven't been able to get anything to hatch now. Maybe they have gastropod contraception in use. The sluggies are a different matter... I need to clean up small batches of eggs every other day lately! Caught one laying eggs just today.
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rosiesnail2
Achatina immaculata
3 Albino Achatina Reticulata on sale with tank ♥️
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Post by rosiesnail2 on Jan 30, 2012 21:42:47 GMT
Wow thats alot! Good luck
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Post by mewakitty on Feb 2, 2012 20:34:07 GMT
You're snails and slugs are so cute! I love how the snails try to escape by crawling on your arm. (I've never seen mating snails either, it's cool )
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Post by pinkunicorn on Feb 2, 2012 21:18:04 GMT
Haha, here's something to view then... Gosh, it's like all my pics are snail pr0nz lately, but I've been tracking their behaviour and taking picture and video footage of them mating to find patterns etc. So here's a quick and bad quality (my video camera is cell phone camera, unfortunately) footage of D. invadens mating dance, with appropriate soundtrack. The tails wag almost to the rhythm of the music, but I didn't bother syncing them fully now.
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Post by mewakitty on Feb 2, 2012 21:37:41 GMT
Oh my goodness! I didn't know slugs could wag their tails like that. That's some crazy business What angle are you filming from? Are they on the lid or something?
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Post by pinkunicorn on Feb 2, 2012 21:46:46 GMT
Yeah, they always move clockwise but I'm filming them from outside the terrarium wall, so they appear counter-clockwise. They are on the wall almost where the lid starts and I was below the box, trying to get some sort of angle without losing focus too much.
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Post by ness on Feb 3, 2012 22:09:12 GMT
Wow that's rather strange I didn't know slugs could wag their tails either! The mating ritual of the Limax maximus is well documented (and beautiful) but I must confess I don't know alot about the rituals of other species. The local slugs that I have seen don't go in for anything particularly fancy, just a bit of circling, the occasional nip and then down to it! I wonder why this species bites to the extent that they do?
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rosiesnail2
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Post by rosiesnail2 on Feb 3, 2012 22:31:54 GMT
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Post by pinkunicorn on Feb 4, 2012 0:15:47 GMT
That's a beautiful show, yeah. I found this really good clip of H. pomatia too.A review of mating behavior in slugs of the genus Deroceras (Pulmonata: Agriolimacidae) is what I used to ID my slugs. It's a review of most published material on the mating of Deroceras slugs from the past two centuries, and I found it an awesome read, naturally because my slugs are of this particular genus. And it's a free PDF. Some issues of Tentacle also had good stuff on slug mating that I read up on, but I can't find them now from my journal collection. Last night I witnessed, again, slug mating. It was a lot more aggressive than this, and it's a shame I couldn't video it. Box was next to the bed again, and I couldn't put the lights on as the man didn't want his sleep ruined thanks to my slugs, lol. So I was watching them in the light of my cell phone. They were giving some really nasty bites, gnawing the sides of each other for a few seconds at time and making the other slug writhe... I don't know if it was in pain or ecstasy! But it seemed pretty intense. Yet, it's clearly the way they're supposed to do it. Now I also saw what the review describes as "intense stroking" with the sarcobelum (the proper word for the "penis"), instead of just resting the sarcobelums on the other slug's body like I saw before. It was a really good example of what the literature describes, right from the "follow the leader" game at the beginning, where one slug takes the other for a walk, wagging its tail and stopping to wait if the other lags behind. It also started with some good bites, the "horny" slug approaching the other from behind and starting to bite the tail, to which the other responded by starting to wag it. So it'd seem like there's some sort of communication going on in the bites here, I guess. Oh, btw, the review is from 2007 and thus hasn't separated D. invadens from D. panormitanum yet, as the taxonomic correction was apparently done in 2011. But the mating they describe for panormitanum is obviously that of invadens, it's quite different from the rest in its extremity. As I mentioned before these slugs apparently have a habit of biting each other quite a bit. I first thought they want to kill each other because of it, because they ARE cannibalistic, I have picture proof of this. They can sleep peacefully next to each other, and usually sleep in a cluster of at least three slugs, skin to skin, under pottery shards in my terrarium. But, sometimes when a slug approaches another that has already taken a place to sleep, one of them will be chased away with a bite attack. Sometimes they chase each other away from food with bite attacks. Yet, sometimes they dine quite close to each other without problems. I guess the degree of hunger has something to do with it, though there is enough high-quality protein food available for every slug every day. Maybe this biting, too, is some communication. "Get away from my food!" "I want to be left alone!" Yes, I find them slugs quite fascinating, especially as they're a lot more active right now than my lazy aspersas that only get active at night!
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Post by ness on Feb 4, 2012 19:04:21 GMT
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rosiesnail2
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Post by rosiesnail2 on Feb 4, 2012 23:12:44 GMT
strange! Looked like one was eating the other!
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saki114
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Post by saki114 on Feb 9, 2012 3:17:38 GMT
I took some better pics while cleaning the tank. Snailies are residing in a metal pot while the soil is getting sterilised in the oven, and keeping themselves busy with some lettuce. Wild caught aspersas, I don't know their ages but two at least are mature. One seems a bit younger judging by the shell size! These two huddled together almost seem like an item... always together and carrying eggs atm. Too bad they didn't lay the eggs yet. There's a little slug hiding underneath the small shard of pottery, but it didn't want to come out for a picture. let me guess... are they h. aspersa???
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Post by pinkunicorn on Feb 16, 2012 16:52:38 GMT
Oh sad day. The smallest slug has disappeared. *cries* I forgot the small lid slightly open so a small slug could have gotten through... It's the third one gone. One escaped from a small container when I was keeping them separate. One just... disappeared a few weeks ago from a closed snailery. I suspect it may have died naturally and been consumed by the others. No way it could have gotten out. And now the tiniest slug... I suspect the second one was actually Sluggy, because he was the oldest. Now I have one pink snd two brown ones left. The pink is a bit of a loner, sleeps apart from the rest ever since Sluggy disappeared. The two browns, and the baby, used to sleep together in a small pot for a few weeks now... and this afternoon, the baby is there no more. The strange thing is that I don't see any slime tracks on the outside of the lid though. Depressing.
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Post by ness on Feb 16, 2012 21:14:34 GMT
Ooooh. Sorry to hear about your slugs Are you sure your tiny one isn't just hiding in some deep dark corner of the tank? Fingers crossed that it is.... x
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Post by saki114 on Feb 18, 2012 15:09:37 GMT
Pinkunicorn, sorry to hear that news... that once happened some months ago, when Jimmer FAS(btw, that stands 4 Fantastic And Slimy lol) escaped because i left the lid slightly open.. very panicked and desparate... thank goodness i discovered some slime tracks and found him under my bed... <
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rosiesnail2
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Post by rosiesnail2 on Feb 18, 2012 17:18:17 GMT
Aww so sorry to hear about the slugs My Fulcia tank was found open and the bible that was on top on the floor. I was ever so worried but I found him in the bathroom on the floor. Thankfully no where near the soap. Hope you find him. Also maybe you could visit: landsnailguide.webs.com/ because I'd love to know what breed the slugs are- added slugs Good snaily sluggy luck Rosie xx
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Post by saki114 on Feb 18, 2012 17:21:35 GMT
Aww so sorry to hear about the slugs My Fulcia tank was found open and the bible that was on top on the floor. I was ever so worried but I found him in the bathroom on the floor. Thankfully no where near the soap. Hope you find him. Also maybe you could visit: landsnailguide.webs.com/ because I'd love to know what breed the slugs are- added slugs Good snaily sluggy luck Rosie xx u added the slugs already???
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rosiesnail2
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Post by rosiesnail2 on Feb 18, 2012 17:27:00 GMT
Yep Thanks for the support saki, check it out I'm adding more when my laptops charged up x
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Post by saki114 on Feb 18, 2012 17:40:40 GMT
@ rosie: awesome! ill post some pics of my snails as soon as i get my camera fixed ASAP
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