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Post by welsh on Jun 9, 2009 20:12:51 GMT
hello ok as some of you know this very strange thing has happend well i've got a pic of him, as you can see it looks rather black around where his eye stalks should be are they hiding? i mean he is out and about so he can't be that bothered right? Shes been very nice about it but i just worry i don't want him to pop his snailly clogg!  close up  |
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Post by snailcrazy on Jun 9, 2009 20:26:16 GMT
Ooo that's very odd. Wouldn't have thought he'd be out and about without his eyestalks being out, if you know what I mean.  |
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Post by ade on Jun 9, 2009 20:41:17 GMT
hi Welsh,
Some time ago i received some snails from Rachel of the snail sanctuary,One we had only ever seemed to have one eye stalk, and im talking for months i was under the impression he only had one eye stalk in fact i could always identify him from all the other by this simple fact. anyway after some time bathing them all i noticed he actually had two eye stalks the other one just seemed to appear out of nowhere. I hope this is the case with your snail also. anyhow mine grew up to be an impressive healthy lad.
All the best
Ade
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Post by spook on Jun 9, 2009 21:00:09 GMT
How strange......maybe he's left them under his pillow for safe keeping... ;D ;D ;D
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Post by welsh on Jun 9, 2009 21:44:39 GMT
haha is that what i should tell the lady who brought them spook!
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Post by feebix on Jun 9, 2009 23:52:34 GMT
Maybe he should`ve gone to specksavers......  |
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Post by welsh on Jun 11, 2009 10:54:59 GMT
well still no sign, they have healed over a bit and look better and though hes been quite hes half in half out and hand a nibble so i did some surfing and found this about a study they did on garden snails they cut off their eye stalks (horrible) and they grow back www.csulb.edu/~zedmason/emprojects/Lan/!LAN.HTM |
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Post by snailcrazy on Jun 11, 2009 13:32:25 GMT
Perhaps he's trying contact lenses.
Eww cutting them off and then growing them back, that's really gross.
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Post by welsh on Jun 11, 2009 13:41:21 GMT
I would imagine painful too!
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Post by feebix on Jun 11, 2009 17:37:49 GMT
All snails can grow eye stalks back if they`re cut off. There are some parasites in snails that live in the eye stalks, when they time is right, they make the eye stalks flash bright colours by moving up and down them, they even take over the snails brain and control what it does! It climbs a tree, a bird see`s the bright flashes and bites the eye stalks off, but they grow back and it all starts again, mad eh....
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Post by snailcrazy on Jun 11, 2009 18:02:24 GMT
I've seen something like that on youtube. It's horrid.
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Post by crossless on Sept 2, 2009 5:46:23 GMT
One of my snail lost some how one eyeball, I didn't see parasite, ball grow back some time ago put it's really odd shaped and it don't eye on it. I'm think mutation, i bought my snails from pet shop, so they might inbreeded really bad.  Her babies I eyes seems to b fine and other snail that I bought from same store. |
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Her babies I eyes seems to b fine and other snail that I bought from same store.