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Post by Zorst on Jun 23, 2015 21:14:41 GMT
I have a few more baby Bulldozer eggs that were laid today that I will keep some of to hatch. Seem's like Marrow has been busy again, I can always tell he's been egg laying as he's even more hungry that normal if that's possible . So far today he's eaten his way through 2 slices of sweet potato, a lump of courgette a strawberry and some baby sweetcorn. He's the only snail awake in the whole tank so I know its him that as I've been watching him for the last few hrs. Now he's snailing off to the pool for a bath but bulldozing a piece of asparagus with him so he can continue eating whilst in the bath. Man he's gonna be one fat snail when he's finished . Reading his food list there takes me back to the Book called The Hungry Caterpillar. I just hope Marrow doesn't go to sleep n then wake up a butterfly as he'd flatten everyone the size he is . Zorst
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Post by snailcrazy on Jun 23, 2015 21:24:02 GMT
Lol, they like to nosh. The snails I got from Eyana have a rifht appetite. My kids at school loce the hungry caterpillar.
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Post by etana on Jul 12, 2015 5:58:22 GMT
So Halonen spent all day yesterday half buried in a burrow, and she never digs at all unless it's for egg laying. Let's see how many hundred eggs I can dig up today.
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Post by etana on Jul 12, 2015 18:04:18 GMT
242 eggs. Not as crazy as when I started this thread lol, but she sure is good at this. Just to think that 100 eggs less nearly killed my Taavetti. If a super prolific fulica mom was needed for some reason, she'd be a goldmine. But alas. Also found a few Mini Taunos. He's been giving birth again. Sigh...
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Post by jolovessnailies on Jul 12, 2015 19:43:10 GMT
Bulldozer, I love that Zorst, I can guess why he is called that, tends too go through things instead of around them by any chance? Greedy little Snailie too, have a good feed then off for a relax in the pool LOL!! Maybe there are prizes in there for who can lay the most eggs. The Hungry Caterpillar is adorable and at times reminds me of myself LOL!! 242 eggs and that is not the most ever counted and have to find them, sounds like a full time job but what a sweet one.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by etana on Jul 12, 2015 21:22:57 GMT
Thankfully the eggs are normally all in the same burrow once you find it. Except when a snailie figures out how to hide single ones or give birth, which my Tauno has, but he's a weird snail anyway and no one else does that repeatedly, thank goodness. I put Halonen sitting in the bath to recover from the egg laying, as her cheek looks quite sore. She promptly made a gigantic poop in the water. Now she's sitting on one of her young, and another is all over her face. One has to wonder how big a family she really thinks she can handle.
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Post by etana on Jul 13, 2015 5:53:26 GMT
Just looked at when I made the thread. She last laid 3 weeks ago. Oh my.
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Post by Zorst on Jul 13, 2015 8:59:45 GMT
Man she must want a big family real bad . But at least its keeping you entertained hunting all the eggs Etana .Deffinatly hours of entertainment there and as for the little live surprises at leat there only in ones. PHEW not like the Immac's did to me with 70 live born young . That was not a very funny surprise. Zorst
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Post by etana on Jul 13, 2015 9:16:35 GMT
Lol yeah. Against her plans regarding having the massive family, I just mailed out 30 young fulica, and a few more are leaving soon. With the 30 gone, the tank is so much easier now to keep from being unsightly with poop and snail trails. I fed Halonen some scrambled egg on my palm and put her back in the tank. She snailed to the bath tub, felt it with her feelers and stared into it with one eye, and her other eye started pointing towards the feta cheese can cave. I could almost hear her thinking, "Bath or sleep, bath or sleep, bath or sleep?" and I think she chose the sleep. Oh the snail life, I'm jealous. Halonen is crazy about procreating though, she only laid that big clutch 2 days ago and yesterday she was already trying to woo one of her own young. I found one more of Tauno's trick eggs, it was just about to hatch so I let it be. Yeah 70 live babies would be a LOT for me too, I sure hope Tauno will stick with the singles!
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Post by Zorst on Jul 13, 2015 11:37:20 GMT
Yaeh that 70 live births came on the back of around 100 that hatched whilst I was in hospital so I had a massive amount of babies thankfully now mostly rehomed. Belive me im now keeping a very close eye on those Immacs after that lot. Yes I know the look you mean usuly its Marrow looking bettween his flower pot n the new food pile or the bath, usually its his stomach that win n I've often found him asleep in the food pile under a cabbage leaf becuase he never made it to the flower pot or he takes some food with him into the flower pot . Now his fan club are doing the same which is both cute n funny to watch . Zorst
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Post by jolovessnailies on Jul 13, 2015 19:32:01 GMT
She sounds a busy girlie, it is a pity there isn't some birth control for snailies LOL!! Poor little love, I bet she is sore.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by etana on Jul 13, 2015 19:55:57 GMT
Yeah she's slept 10 hours straight now, poor thing. Some snails have been known to die from egg laying exhaustion, so I make a point to ensure they get food and water after laying.
Believe it or not, Helix pomatia actually have birth control, their slime changes when there are too many snails in a small area and it causes temporary infertility. Fulica sure could use something like that too, lol.
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Post by etana on Jul 14, 2015 7:25:51 GMT
AHHHH NOOOOO Tauno outsmarted me BIG TIME!!
The single egg I found was all the way across the tank from a little newborn baby. I was like: "Aaaawww look at that mini snail!"
Then I was like "Wait what, there's 5 more mini snails snailing in line..." (The Mini Taunos I mentioned earlier were a little older, with the yellow in their shells showing and all, but these guys now were obviously newborn, completely translucent.)
I turned over one of the big root pieces I have in the tank, and in a large hole on its backside, above the ground level... babies. A hundred or so babies.
I'd never heard of fulica not laying in a burrow. I haven't seen Tauno spend time behind that root. On top of everything I just dug up Halonen's eggs from a burrow behind the root NEXT TO IT. Tauno must have gone there right after I placed everything back, and laid a big clutch that hatched super quickly. My figurative hat goes off to the smartness of my snail but gosh darnit.
I'm so... what, uhh, feeling so much over this I'm forgetting my English and my usernames and passwords to the computer itself and the web communities... I hope this serves as a warning for people to check the unlikely places too. My head is spinning. I collected all the babies into an ice cream box as most of them hadn't started to even move yet, but I'm contemplating what to do now.
Eta: I'm keeping them, didn't need to look into those gigantic eyes very many times to know that. Let's see how many survive anyway, I moved them in their most fragile state as I was almost panicking, and many may not have liked that. Siiiigh.
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Post by jolovessnailies on Jul 14, 2015 15:50:26 GMT
Oh Etana, no wonder the little lady is so exhausted, she hid that well from you didn't she? I know you would really rather they had not been there but I can just imagine how cute they are and why you want to keep them. My goodness they know how to hide them don't they love, I will have to be very vigilant when I have mine?
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by Zorst on Jul 17, 2015 11:27:31 GMT
I'll let you into a secret here Etana , I dread the egg hunts now after the Immac's did that very simlar trick on me and I ended up with all there one's it was some what a nitemare situation for that night. I even drempt of walking into my room to find herds of baby snailers sliming out of the tanks and all across my bedroom n studio floor AHHHHHHHHH ! What a relife it was when I woke to find it all a bad dream and they were all safely asleep in their tanks PHEW!!!! The egg hunts have been extremly thorough since then though. Zorst
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