Leah
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Do you want me to sit in the corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing?
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Post by Leah on Jul 3, 2005 13:53:13 GMT
My snail never goes back inside his shell when he's sleeping. He just puts his eyes in. It scared me when I first saw it, I thought he was dead! Anybody else seen similar?
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Post by anjieburdett on Jul 3, 2005 14:26:16 GMT
yep..all bigger snails tend to do this.
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Post by bookitten on Jul 3, 2005 15:01:24 GMT
LOL. sorry, it is kinda funny. Gary does this, so does salty [my slightly smaller tiger]
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Leah
Archachatina puylaerti
Do you want me to sit in the corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing?
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Post by Leah on Jul 8, 2005 18:20:38 GMT
The other day I noticed something so funny. Eric always sleeps, on the ceiling of the tank, but very slowly, in his sleep, slides down. Must be horrible to go to sleep in one place and wake up in another! lol. I thought that was so funny.
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Post by anjieburdett on Jul 8, 2005 21:12:26 GMT
Ohh leah, thats so cute! Lucky he doesn't fall.
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Leah
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Do you want me to sit in the corner and rust, or just fall apart where I'm standing?
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Post by Leah on Jul 8, 2005 21:26:50 GMT
no he just slowly slides down the side of the tank. hehe. tis cute.
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Joram
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Post by Joram on Sept 14, 2005 1:23:17 GMT
What are snail's common sleeping patterns? Do they mostly sleep during daytime and awake at night? Or is it more random? And for how long do they generally sleep? I know they hibernate; on the northern hemisphere, during which months are they KO? Hope they're not too stupid questions
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Post by natrat84 on Sept 14, 2005 6:08:13 GMT
Generally, mine sleep in the day and wake at night. Some can sleep for days if you let them. I wake mine each night to eat though. I often see a couple awake in the day, but they are definatly far more active at night. Nat
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Joram
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Post by Joram on Sept 14, 2005 6:19:06 GMT
Ah ok, so they're really nocturnal. Sleep for days It's not significantly different for different species, is it?
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Post by sezzy5889 on Sept 14, 2005 7:33:47 GMT
No questions too stupid for this forum even f someone came on and said 'what is a snail?' we'de still tell them, hehe
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Post by natrat84 on Sept 14, 2005 8:21:17 GMT
I think they are nocturnal, they just don't wake EVERY night, well mine don't unless I wake them (some of them). I don't think its any different for different species, but again some of mine are alot more active than others.
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Post by section8angel on Sept 14, 2005 9:00:02 GMT
Lol! that snail sliding in his sleep sounds sooooooooooooooo cute!!! Mine seem to like pooping on the tank lid rather than anything else x.x
Mine will come out in the day if I've just sprayed them, as normally I spray and put food in so they kinda know it's dinner time lol. Well lunch really, they get dinner later haha. Mine don't really have a pattern apart from that though. If I forget to spray at the normal time then they might wake up anyway or they might not. But they are more active when it's darker. I say that and not night as my room can get quite dark even when it isn't night! So I seem to see my snailies a lot more lol In fact one of the Fulica babies was roaming round the tank at this moment as it was quite dark still until I put the light on. It's now gone back to bed! lol (I wish I could zzzzzzz)
And mine don't go all the way inside the shell when they sleep either, not even my babies. But they only stay out a teeny tiny bit though, whereas the adults stay out about a cm or so.
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Joram
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Post by Joram on Sept 14, 2005 9:42:09 GMT
I see, I see. *takes notes* Ok, that answers my question well enough. There's a little project I'm working on and I'd like to incorporate this kind of info. The sliding while sleeping is a cute anekdote I'll be able to slip in as well. How's it with food? I suppose this does differ more for different species, but in general, how much do they eat? Fresh food once a day is a good rate, right? How much would a snail generally eat in, say, cucumber slices per day? (just the amount, how much grams per day would be good too, not necessarily cucumber)
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Post by section8angel on Sept 14, 2005 9:49:06 GMT
Slices?! Hahah if my adults heard you say that they'd faint lol Mine get half a cucumber and eat it within a day! (They eat every single part of it too! Nothing left!) I feed mine bigger amounts as I can be quite forgetfull, I say to myself when I go downstairs that when I come back up to bed I need to bring the snailies food, I get up here and I haven't remembered it lol. So I feed them quite a lot so that if I forget it wont matter majorly as they've already pigged out the day before!! They get the fresh food every 2 to 3 days (Sometimes they haven't finished what I give them so at the moment I'm experimenting with the food, how often how much etc) But in between that they have other things like some veggie biscuits I found on ebay lol. And then a few dog biscuits and such. I can weigh the cucumber halves later if that will help you? And I'll weigh the other veggies and fruit they get.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2005 12:09:15 GMT
i think fulica can be more diurnal than other species. my fulica are usually awake at night, but no one else...
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Joram
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Post by Joram on Sept 14, 2005 16:55:18 GMT
I can weigh the cucumber halves later if that will help you? And I'll weigh the other veggies and fruit they get. No, that's ok, thanks. I've got a good idea now.
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Post by section8angel on Sept 14, 2005 17:56:48 GMT
Lol okey dokey.
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apple
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Post by apple on Sept 23, 2005 13:10:13 GMT
«What are snail's common sleeping patterns? Do they mostly sleep during daytime and awake at night? Or is it more random? And for how long do they generally sleep? I know they hibernate; on the northern hemisphere, during which months are they KO? Hope they're not too stupid questions ?»-Joram Snails usually are active at night but also at daytime, when the weather is wet or damp. They hibernate on both Hemispheres ( North and South), for example, in Norway it can last for months on South Chile too. There are 2 types of inactivity on snails behaviour: aestivation and hibernation. Hibernation is due to excessive cold conditions and aestivation with too much heat or drought. Here, for example, on this time of the year, most snails are aestivating, under rocks and logs. On desertic places that could last for a year or even more. The months that they are inactive depends on how long conditions aren´t suitable for them. On wet subtropical, tropical or equatorial places they may be active all year round. On cold , temperate, or in desertic and mediterranean zones they are active for some months, always, when the weather is damp, but not freezing. I hope this will help. Good luck!
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Joram
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Post by Joram on Sept 23, 2005 13:55:40 GMT
Ah ok, I see. Yes, that helps, thanks. Was just thinking it would depend on species. If I take a snail from my backyard to Africa, it might well be too hot for it, while African snails obviously are fine there.
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apple
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Post by apple on Sept 24, 2005 12:48:07 GMT
Of course, that behaviour varies between diferent species. But the entire snails family needs wet conditions if not, the body will dehydrate. Thats established. That´s why a snail that lives in a subtropical humid island can be active all year round, the temperature is fine but the average rainfall/ number of days with rain,is what really matters. A snail of temperate climates will probably die in tropical climates, thats due to the inactivity/activity pattern on the «clock» of the snail. But if the snail can do aestivation in a great amount in excessive heat and drought conditions, if there are vegetables,if it rains enough to provide feeding, reproduction, if the microbiology, fungus, enemies, allow, snail could survive even on a different location, with a different climate. Some sorts of snails are more adaptable than others, but of course, what really decides, are ecological conditions.
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Joram
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Post by Joram on Sept 24, 2005 20:55:13 GMT
Ok That's info I don't really need for the project I'm on, but still it's nice to know.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2005 11:15:01 GMT
My snail never goes back inside his shell when he's sleeping. He just puts his eyes in. It scared me when I first saw it, I thought he was dead! Anybody else seen similar? omg my baby ventricosa did that except he had one eye out i was really scared i thought he was dead.
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apple
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Post by apple on Sept 25, 2005 12:43:48 GMT
«Was just thinking it would depend on species. If I take a snail from my backyard to Africa, it might well be too hot for it, while African snails obviously are fine there.-Joram. What I was telling to you, by another words,it depends merely on the adaptations and limitations on the capacity of a snail (X or Y specie) on a different place (T or E location) from it´s origin. A european snail could / couldn´t adapt in Africa. You may not need this information, but you talked about it and I gave my opinion. It´s nice too, to hear people here interested on this. It´s more important than most think. Good work!
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Joram
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Post by Joram on Sept 26, 2005 13:23:06 GMT
Oh yeah, I find it interesting indeed.
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