Making noises?

[kanin]

One of my Iredalei have been making lot's of sounds for a couple of days. Just now he was making quite a lot of sounds actually.
I don't know how he makes them but they are clicking sounds and squeking sounds that are so loud they can be heard through the terrarium sides and the entire room it's in. The sounds are quite loud so first I thought it was one of the larger snails that was responsible but now I managed to track it down to him.
He imediatly stops if I pick him up though. Thoose of you who have heard the snailsongs on yuri yashins webpage may know what I'm talking about. The sounds he's making are louder and more "comunicative" if I'm making any sense.

He seems to be perfectly fine though and don't seem to be ill or in pain in any way he just makes a lot of sounds time to time.

Is this an indication of that something is wrong perhaps? or is this quite normal? My two margies have shared tank with them for a while but moved into a tank of their own a while ago and since they moved he's making a lot of noises.

[Rachel]

my snails make popping noises that are a bit squeaky sometimes and their fine. Sometimes they click and squeak when in their tank, and all the sounds are pretty loud. One time they popped so loud it woke me up, lol . i shouldn't think theres anything to worry about, although you might want a second opinion.

[coyote]

Can you tell if it's the snail all by itself making the noise? I've heard that a snail rapidly retracting into its shell can make a squeaking sort of noise.

Is it possible it's a noise from the shell against the side of the tank or other object inside the tank?

[kanin]

It's the snail itself making the noises. It's not retracting while making the noises, sometimes it's sitting still out of it's shell and sometimes it's crawling around both on the substrate and on the sides of it's tank. I'm sure it's not the sound of the shell against anything.

I've heard my margies making clicking noises at some times but this noises are louder and more frequent. What caught my attention is that it's a quite small snail and I was surprised to hear such a quantity and volume of noises. It's a 7,4 cm Iredalei.

[madhouse]

Mind you my daughters only small and she makes an awful lot of noise

[lizzie97444]

lol!
I luv my snail's pop noises!
they make it wen they try to breath
let them be lol

[coyote]

Hmm, a bit of a mystery.

Here's the link to Yuri's snailsongs page, so people can hear some examples:
www.achatina.ru/Other/Song-En.htm

Can you tell if there's anything in the breathing hole that might account for the noises?

[kanin]

Coyote, I also thought it could be that there was something in the breathing hole and I had good look but couldn't discover any abnormalities or objects.

I'm not really worried for him just a little bit surprised he could make so much noise

[kanin]

He seems to have seased with the noises since some days now. perhaps there actualy was something in the breathing hole thats gone now. hard to tell. Maybe he just missed his Marginata friends

[coyote]

Nov 5, 2008 10:16:32 GMT kanin said:

I'm not really worried for him just a little bit surprised he could make so much noise

Who would have thought that a snail could be a noisy pet? ;D

[loly]

i got snails because they dont make noise,
now i fear in the night when evryones trying to sleep

[coyote]

At least they aren't as loud as the cat howling out the window at a strange cat in the yard. I'd like to see a snail outdo that!! ;D

[kanin]

nah.. My Iredalei was quite noisy allthough he was so tiny, imagine a full grown tiger howling.

[coyote]

LOL!

[brgwnth]

we have two kittens and they yowl, eat, and knock the christmas tree down. you should have seen my mum's face...

[Rachel]

Dec 15, 2008 10:54:11 GMT brgwnth said:

we have two kittens and they yowl, eat, and knock the christmas tree down. you should have seen my mum's face...

lol, you think thats bad, my HAMSTER knocked down our 6ft xmas tree last year. running in her ball. very fast. hits precariously propped up tree covered in glass baubles. awful creaking sound. me diving to save the hamster. tree landing on me. hamster running around me then into my head. big pain.

[Snail Lover.]

sometimes when u go bed , i can here a noise and when i go to the snails there awake, i dont know why there making noises tho, rather strange.

[ade2009]

If my tigers start howling they are going on ebay lol

[coyote]

if my snail starts howling, he's going on youtube ;D

and maybe on david letterman's stupid pet tricks too! ;D

[ade2009]

Hey,
We could team up, the howlin snail quartet ;D

[coyote]

ROFL! ;D