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Post by IsisTheSnail on Dec 1, 2011 1:48:51 GMT
So, for some reason I can't post in the behaviour section, so I'll post this here...
Recently my snail has been becoming a lot more active, thankfully, now that she's out of her hibernating state, and just the past few hours when I've gone in to check on her, I find her where she'd last been, on her leaf of lettuce, and out of her shell. But the weird thing is that she appears to be sleeping. With her entire body out of her shell. With her eyes retracted. It'd the oddest thing ever. And it's almost like it's hard to wake her up. I'll pick her up and spray her, or gently blow on her and it takes her a while to register and slowly push her eye back out to investigate. Is this normal...?
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mejulie
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Post by mejulie on Dec 1, 2011 10:43:55 GMT
hi, my albino retics do this all the time.... they are very healthy so ive never quetioned it
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sarahb
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Post by sarahb on Dec 1, 2011 11:13:03 GMT
My Jibba (albino retic) sleeps like that. I worried for the first week of her doing it, but now I just figure she's a little weird.
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Post by IsisTheSnail on Dec 1, 2011 20:15:04 GMT
Oh, alright. I was worried she was sick or something xD
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Post by pinkunicorn on Dec 2, 2011 21:40:34 GMT
I even see my snailies sleep with their eyestalks halfway out. They just pull the eye in and leave the rest of the stalks outside.
Snails can be very photogenic in this state. All the funny expressions!
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forca
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Post by forca on Dec 8, 2011 2:06:20 GMT
some of mine eat like that. so thats a possibility too.
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Post by pinkunicorn on Dec 9, 2011 13:05:12 GMT
www.physorg.com/news/2011-02-evidence-snails.htmlWe of course knew this all along that snails sleep. But now it's been proven. I think mine sleep quite a bit more than the article suggests, though. But the pattern is definitely there, they sleep at odd times.
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coyote
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Post by coyote on Dec 9, 2011 22:44:37 GMT
Thanks for that link!  |
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Post by axoloa on Dec 10, 2011 3:12:22 GMT
'they would respond less to stimulation and would withdraw their bodies into their shells sluggishly when prodded with a metal rod' well thats not very nice :/ |
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coyote
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Post by coyote on Dec 11, 2011 9:13:34 GMT
It probably means they poked it with a blunt stirring rod or something like that. Maybe not very nice for the snail, but it probably didn't cause any real damage, and we now know a little more about snails than we did before.
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Post by axoloa on Dec 11, 2011 15:45:22 GMT
It probably means they poked it with a blunt stirring rod or something like that. Maybe not very nice for the snail, but it probably didn't cause any real damage, and we now know a little more about snails than we did before. lol, im sure it didnt damage the snail to. but I know I would be quiet iritated by someone poking me and im a human (I PROMICE  ). Id hate to think what the snail thought of it |
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coyote
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Post by coyote on Dec 11, 2011 23:29:01 GMT
A snail in nature will probably get poked by stems and twigs as it crawls along, so it's used to that kind of stimulus. It might not enjoy the stimulus, but it's probably used to it.
Ideally, people would not go poking snails, of course.
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Post by axoloa on Dec 12, 2011 1:00:43 GMT
A snail in nature will probably get poked by stems and twigs as it crawls along, so it's used to that kind of stimulus. It might not enjoy the stimulus, but it's probably used to it. Ideally, people would not go poking snails, of course. lol I know, just making an observation |
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Post by pinkunicorn on Dec 12, 2011 20:42:30 GMT
Lol, one thing the researchers either forgot to mention or didn't observe... their subjects giving them the finger when prodded instead of "seven times slower reaction time". Sometimes a snail just wants to sleep and no amount of prodding or spraying will produce more results than an eyestalk peeking out from under the shell along with a very disgruntled snail face. And then it will fall right back asleep.
Yeah, my snailies are very sleepy for the past few days. I hoped they finally laid the eggs I know they're carrying for aaaages now, given the effort they put in digging tunnels and holes in the soil for the past week or so. But no, it was just digging for the sake of digging. Despite me adding more soil and humidity to encourage egg-laying... And now they're just sleeping, long enough already that I had to poke and spray a little to see if they're alive. Oh yes, very much alive. Just very sleepy. And giving me funny grumpy faces before falling asleep outside the shell again. Oh well, I guess they'll reach for the lettuce when semi-hibernating gets boring.
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Post by elegans on Jun 13, 2013 11:35:05 GMT
My snail does this too, though not all the time... sometimes he sleeps fully drawn into his shell, other times out with just his tentacles retracted. I find it really cute.
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shivles
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Post by shivles on Jul 24, 2013 20:54:49 GMT
All of mine have been asleep like this for about 24hrs now!  |
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Post by vallery on Jul 31, 2013 9:00:57 GMT
I have seen my snails sleep in all sorts of different positions. Retracted, partly out of their shell with eye stalks in, stuck on the side of the take face up with eyestalks drooping backwards (very funny to see), on a stick with eyestalks out and drooping forward, all in different positions at the same time in the same tank. I wonder though if there is some reason why they sleep in all of these certain different positions at certain times. vallery |
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shivles
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Post by shivles on Jul 31, 2013 9:11:45 GMT
I suppose it's similar to us turning over in the night? It can't be comfortable to sleep as long as a snail does in one position lol I imagine the eye out is to watch out for danger, when I put my hand near the eye stalk while they're sleeping the retract completely
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Post by vallery on Jul 31, 2013 9:31:59 GMT
Hi shivles , I was thinking the same thing myself how we sleep in different positions through the night . I wonder, maybe sometimes they aren't sleeping but awake and just resting. vallery |
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Post by malacophile on Jul 31, 2013 13:52:20 GMT
I've seen my own looking like they're only resting. From what I've been able to see, they appear to sleep in spurts. Then wake up and sit there staring off into space for a while before going back to sleep. And I do notice that they change positions during sleep. I live in a studio apartment, so I can easily watch their bin from my computer, and I work from home, so I have too much free time.  |
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Post by vallery on Aug 1, 2013 6:15:10 GMT
I wonder do snails dream? What do you think a snail would dream about  ? So is everyone else as excited as I am about seeing the movie Turbo? I definitely just have to have a set of those snail eyes you can put on top of your head, the movie merchandise they are selling, haven't found any yet though. vallery |
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shivles
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Post by shivles on Aug 1, 2013 6:56:58 GMT
Maybe they dream about food? That's pretty much all they do haha! I can't wait for Turbo |
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Post by muddydragon on Aug 1, 2013 11:37:30 GMT
i can think of something else mine do frequently other than eat food....
I used to have a snail called glaedr. All he did was pretty much sit in one place, eat the food put in front of him, wait for other snails to come near him to mate, lay eggs near where he was and sleep
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shivles
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Post by shivles on Aug 1, 2013 11:58:16 GMT
Lmao, sexy snail dreams!
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Dumbledore
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Post by Dumbledore on Aug 1, 2013 12:01:20 GMT
Wow. Talk about a lazy snail.
By any chance have you read Eragon?
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). Id hate to think what the snail thought of it 
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