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Post by etana on May 31, 2015 8:01:29 GMT
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Post by etana on May 31, 2015 8:02:22 GMT
There's one more. Again, click on them to get a huge version.
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Post by etana on May 31, 2015 8:15:00 GMT
Also, when I posted that "his insides look a different kind of weird" a couple days ago, he was in the tank and I couldn't see with my bare eyes what exactly was going on inside him, but later I placed my camera next to him, took a pic with flashlight, and then I had to run again so I forgot to zoom in. Anyhow here's the pic from that day: Very eggy eggs apparently...damn I regret not zooming in earlier. Also it looks like the beginning of the mucus-like string is hanging out of the breathing hole. I could *almost* swear that when I originally noticed he was pregnant, the clutch was either much bigger or in a very different position, because you could see more of it from this angle. But I may be wrong and I really am puzzled
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Post by Zorst on May 31, 2015 11:15:26 GMT
I would give him a warm green tea bath, to help clean off any worms and mites just in case these are annoying him and causing him distress hence the crazy mucus. Also help it will him relax and hopefully lay the rest of those eggs. I'd also offer him some fresh food again just in case.
Zorst
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Post by spook on May 31, 2015 13:40:15 GMT
Mmmm there's def eggs in there...look totally different to that 'Odd' picture you took a couple of days back! So if he's laid some already.... i wonder when he'll lay these!?.... Is it possible for snails to become 'egg bound'... A bit like chickens... It maybe isn't i'm just guessing! Lets hope he lays agan soon....
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Post by etana on May 31, 2015 15:21:17 GMT
Indeed, Spook! It's all so weird, I hope that at least documenting this will be a good thing. I will try the green tea bath and other pampering later, he's sleeping now looking slightly swollen in the mantle area, poor darling.
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Post by spook on May 31, 2015 15:23:00 GMT
Indeed, Spook! It's all so weird, I hope that at least documenting this will be a good thing. Off course it'll be a good thing.... documenting things is a great way to learn!
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Post by etana on May 31, 2015 20:15:30 GMT
Apparently I ran out of green tea so I just bathed him in warm water... First on a dish, then I showed him the running tap so that he could choose to go under it, and boy did he ever! That was the happiest shower dance since I last bathed Rudolf. The mucus string thing is still there.
He didn't eat, so I returned him to the tank. Now he's on the wall, crossing his eye stalks, returning them to normal, crossing them again, with babies patting him with their little eye stalks. I'd never seen that happen before, either.
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Post by Zorst on May 31, 2015 22:41:06 GMT
Glad he liked the bath and sounds real cute about the baby snails patting him with there eye stalks. I hope that he hurries up and lays these eggs poor thing.
Zorst
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Post by etana on Jun 1, 2015 6:52:20 GMT
He's still sleeping on the same spot on the wall with babies on and around him, a couple have pooped on him too so they must have slept on him. The eye stalk patting is really cute indeed and I love to see how even very big snails seem aware of the tiniest baby's pat, like my Halonen, she sure knows the touch of her little ones. I just wonder why the crossing and de-crossing of eye stalks, some kind of weird forehead exercise...? (just to clarify, it was that that was new to me, not the baby eye stalk pats lol)
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Post by etana on Jun 1, 2015 20:48:04 GMT
Just for a little update, I've allowed him to rest today. He slept most of the day, pooped a bit (that's good at least) and then moved to sleep as high up as possible in the warm end of the tank. One of those mini babies stayed with him all day.
Tomorrow I'll try and get to peek inside him again.
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Post by etana on Jun 2, 2015 18:17:40 GMT
Hmm... Taavetti has been moving around a lot today, and he also initiated a lovely kissing & tentacle patting and stroking session with Tauno (which Tauno liked very much haha). He's still not really eating, but the mucus string thing is entirely gone, his mantle isn't swollen, and there are some eggs still in him. I think it's some improvement overall, but I wish he'd lay the eggs.
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Post by Zorst on Jun 2, 2015 18:29:27 GMT
Well that sounds good and the fact he's interacting with Tauno is great news as is the fact the mucus has gone. Fingers crossed that he'll start eating again and lay those eggs.
Zorst
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Post by etana on Jun 3, 2015 9:54:57 GMT
After he patted and kissed Tauno he snailed to hide. I didn't think much of it but today he was still hiding so I located him. He was very well hidden, and he's in deep retraction. I took ages to locate his heart, he has a slow pulse. I've patted him all over, used a bright LED light (I find sometimes that wakes snails up), washed him with warm water, he refuses to come out and hardly reacts at all.
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Post by etana on Jun 3, 2015 11:22:13 GMT
Oh, now he's come out. I'll be posting...
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