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Post by bethpickles on Mar 13, 2010 7:46:28 GMT
why do my snails insist on pooping on the ceiling of their plastic container. Is it normal for them to do this and sleep up on there?.. lol
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2010 9:32:17 GMT
Is your snails in a tank or a container because not critisizing but i think its not kind to put them in a container. They could be up on the lid to stay away from ground predators (feel safe) or they cold be up there to get air (hardly any air holes)
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Post by coyote on Mar 13, 2010 22:00:46 GMT
My snails seem to spend about a third their sleeping time on the ceiling, which collects its share of poop. It's just part of what snails do. They'll poop on the walls and on the substrate too, wherever they happen to be when it's time to poop.
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Post by crossless on Mar 15, 2010 20:35:46 GMT
They poop usually during to meal on food plate too. >.<
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Post by aerliss on Mar 18, 2010 23:18:42 GMT
Yup, mine prefer the walls and ceiling... kinda makes it difficult for the woodlice to get to it.
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Post by coyote on Mar 19, 2010 19:30:27 GMT
I will knock down poop from the walls back onto the substrate for the woodlice, or pillbugs as we call them in California.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 19, 2010 19:46:52 GMT
I think snails are cool cos if you feed them green paper eventually their poop is green! I was wondering (out of subject) Can snails wee and what does it look like?
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Post by coyote on Mar 20, 2010 23:55:20 GMT
I think snails go wee and poo all at once together. It's always surprising to me when I see bright orange poo in the tank after giving my snails pumpkin. And white poo after they've eaten a lot of cuttle all at once. That's something you won't see from a cat or a dog! ;D
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Post by saki114 on Feb 19, 2012 3:51:06 GMT
lol ;D
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Post by rosiesnail2 on Feb 19, 2012 14:06:34 GMT
Yup mine poop on the plastic and food. Its like they know its more hygienic so we can clean it  |
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Post by saki114 on Feb 19, 2012 14:20:27 GMT
rosie, your snailies are about the complete opposite of mine ;D my snails poo EVERYWHERE lol its like they want to make life a lil harder than me. its a lil gross, but i liv them anyways  |
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Post by ness on Feb 19, 2012 19:57:57 GMT
Yup, like Saki, mine just poop randomly, anywhere and everywhere |
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Post by latebloomer on Feb 20, 2012 11:00:37 GMT
I'm pleased when mine poop on the top or sides of the tank as it is easy to clean up, but they like to use their water bowl and inside their hides as well. If they seem to be sitting in the same spot for a while, I know what I'm going to find lol.
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Post by morningcoffee on Feb 20, 2012 16:27:04 GMT
I'm pleased when mine poop on the top or sides of the tank as it is easy to clean up, but they like to use their water bowl and inside their hides as well. If they seem to be sitting in the same spot for a while, I know what I'm going to find lol. Mine do the same thing - they have a hollow log hide that they love to sleep under, but whenever I lift it up, the underside is covered in poop!  |
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Post by saki114 on Feb 27, 2012 0:22:51 GMT
I'm pleased when mine poop on the top or sides of the tank as it is easy to clean up, but they like to use their water bowl and inside their hides as well. If they seem to be sitting in the same spot for a while, I know what I'm going to find lol. Mine do the same thing - they have a hollow log hide that they love to sleep under, but whenever I lift it up, the underside is covered in poop! lol ;D |
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Post by PennyFarthing on Mar 2, 2012 18:42:35 GMT
Farthing poos wherever he is at the time, Penny seems to burrow just to go, which is a bit awkward when I try to clean it up. She definitely needs woodlice! Is it OK to put wild ones in with her, or is it wiser to purchase some? Are they domesticated at all?
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Post by saki114 on Mar 5, 2012 0:17:42 GMT
I dont really think it matters with woodlice, unless they have a disease (idk if it is POSSIBLE for woodlice to get disease.  ) ;D |
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Post by blondekiss on Mar 5, 2012 0:32:05 GMT
Mine like to poo on their cuttle fish. I have to wash it through out the day  |
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Post by vallery on Mar 13, 2012 4:30:04 GMT
Mine no longer poop on the sides or the top since I added leaves and sticks and English Ivy which they don't eat after this they all hang out on those so I take those out wash them off now.
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Post by pinkunicorn on Mar 21, 2012 14:47:05 GMT
I started using watercress and corn salad as foliage when I put my baby slugs in the main tank, largely to make sure the HUGE amount of tiny piles of poop they leave everywhere ends up in a place where it's easy to clean up from: the leaves. And it seems to work also for the aspersas, I've seen bigger poop piles in the leaves as well and less on the walls.
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Post by vallery on Mar 25, 2012 4:00:00 GMT
I believe I mentioned this in another thread how In the corner of one of my tanks I added a square Tupperware container with out the lid and placed it side ways opening facing out. I covered it with leaves and put some leaves laid out on the inside bottom. I took it out after a few days and found it was completely filled with poop on all over the the sides inside the container. I am going to try it again and in all my tanks. I think it helped covering the top and sides except the entrance with leaves and a few leaves on the bottom inside it was like a little cave and they like to hang under the inside of the container they also seemed to like sitting on the top as well. They still hang under plant leaves and dried leaves in their tanks but a lot less poop on those.
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Post by pinkunicorn on Mar 31, 2012 19:14:29 GMT
Talking about poop... Something odd I've noticed with my sluggies for as long I've had them. They always poop two poops: there's one "normal" poop, as in looks the same colour as what the slug ate etc. normal characteristics of mollusc poop that everyone has noticed. Then there's a second little drop of pure white poop. The white poop comes out of the gut after the normal poop, and usually the slug discards it in the same pile with the normal poop, sometimes they move a little and discard it in a separate pile. I'm wondering if this is something special to Deroceras slugs, or something that other slugs do as well. Does anyone have erm, poop experience? I'm gonna get some L. maximus soonish from a friend's suffering garden, so I will report what I discover in their droppings (for science). But dunno yet when I find the little buggers, I think it needs to rain a bit for them to come out properly. |
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Post by pinkunicorn on May 19, 2012 13:54:07 GMT
Well. I got one individual L. maximus from a friend yesterday and there was poop this morning. But no white poop, also the poop consistency was more like snail poop and very different from what the Deroceras slugs poop (theirs is looser and kinda slimy). Weird, but I guess it's normal to vary by species. Yes, molluscan poop is absolutely fascinating... when you're scraping it off vivarium walls on daily basis can't help but notice these things! |
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Post by pinkunicorn on Jun 2, 2012 13:05:22 GMT
The quest for solving the mysteries of slug poop continues... I got to thinking about slug metabolism while reading up on antioxidants and nitrogen metabolism in humans, and found a few studies on slug metabolism as well. Long story short, I think the white stuff I'm seeing is slug guano, aka solid slug pee. I have found some white droppings in the leopard slug box now, after it received some higher protein food. This would make sense that the excess amino acids are secreted as uric acid (land gastropods appear to be uricotelic like birds, although there is some interesting research on ureotelism in Limax slugs to be found). So they're gorging up on the tasty, tasty fish food and given it is higher in protein than the food more commonly available to them, its excess nitrogen comes out in a form less commonly seen in nature. But no reason to worry, the "guano" just means their metabolism is functioning as it should in healthy slugs.
It seems self-evident to me now, but I have to say I didn't know a lot about molluscan metabolism before so I didn't dare to make wild guesses.
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