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Post by Paul on Aug 4, 2005 12:03:46 GMT
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Kevin
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Post by Kevin on Aug 4, 2005 12:22:06 GMT
Ramonet is Spanish, send him a pm
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Post by Paul on Aug 4, 2005 12:28:01 GMT
Oh yeah, of course he is....
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ramonet
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Post by ramonet on Aug 4, 2005 18:23:43 GMT
It treats the diseases very superficially.
No good.
Not have books about Helicviculture in english?
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Post by Arno on Aug 4, 2005 18:48:03 GMT
I don't think there are that many,most of them are in French,Italian or Spanish.....
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Post by Paul on Aug 5, 2005 1:34:25 GMT
There are a few things here and there, but very little regarding health. That government snail-farming one mentions various Pseudomonas infections, found in soil etc. That seemed a promising lead, particularly when I read that these bacteria are all around us and effect certain people when they are most vulnerable. But when I searched further I found research on the anti-bacterial properties of snail slime particulary against Pseudonomas. Some articles mentioned that because the snail has a soft-foot and is vulnernable to all sorts of attack, evolution has provided a fantastic resistance to foreign invaders, in the form of their slime. There are many varieties of the infection though. When my remaining ill snail died, I perhaps should of done a post-mortem but I didn't have time. Not a nice job at all. And I don't know what I'm looking for, since I've never seen a healthy snails internal organs. And this wasn't a diet problem, which perhaps could have been investigated. There is stuff on www.rainbowsnails.com/ about "foot atrophy". Both my ill fulica, suffered this, but I just assumed it was from dehydration and I'm not even sure they are talking about the same thing. I mention this, because it suggests it could be caused by internal tumors. I realise the chances of finding an answer are pretty remote, but you have to keep digging...
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