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Post by helptoall on Apr 5, 2017 19:16:16 GMT
Hi, did it ever happened to you that a snail wanted to eat you? i have a snail with broken shell i took 2 days ago, he has most of the shell intact ,but about 1 cm from where the lip ahould be is missing and has a big crack further,and also has a brake at the back at the part of the shell that is facing the ground. he is young about half of adult size, and since i took him every time i put my hand near him he approches and startin to rasp my finger... i can actually feel his radula.. i offered him alot of foods and ate some apple but it seems that all he wants to eat is me
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Post by etana on Apr 5, 2017 20:42:23 GMT
Yeah, they will sometimes rasp humans. Sometimes it's very gentle, like a "what are you?" type rasp, sometimes it actually hurts because they are really trying to eat you. I also once had a furious snail who bit me angrily - it wasn't eating movements, it was an attack!
Anyway, did you try offering a bit of unsalted & unseasoned beef or boiled egg for him? He might be lacking in protein. If you already did that, then maybe he just really enjoys the way you taste.
Good luck with this new snail you're helping, let us know about his progress.
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Post by helptoall on Apr 6, 2017 0:15:03 GMT
I didnt tried protein reach food yet, but i tried to put some dead dkin from my arm in the tank..maybe he will eat it.. ill try tommorow to give him protein reach food
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Post by jolovessnailies on Apr 6, 2017 8:55:43 GMT
I didn't know they bit aggressively Etana hunni and I can imagine it being quite painful. I wondered why he did it. Perhaps you had the smell of something nice on your hand and he misunderstood. Good luck with the protein rich food helptoall love, I am sure he didn't mean to hurt you. Yes, please keep us updated.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by etana on Apr 6, 2017 10:38:17 GMT
I find that some special wild caught individuals are aggressive towards each other, and in rare cases, me. The giant ones are very mellow and very rarely resort to aggressively biting anyone, though some have a super sharp tongue and can draw blood even when they obviously don't mean harm.
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Post by jolovessnailies on Apr 7, 2017 9:20:50 GMT
It is usually the case Etana love, the bigger something is the more docile it tends to me. That is an interesting fact about wild snailies though, I didn't know that.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by helptoall on Apr 9, 2017 21:20:37 GMT
ive found a new one today{the first one is still recovering,seems healthy and good} he's very small, and has a hole in the "forehead" of the shell. i wanted to ask what you think i should do,he seems to be very uncomfortable, all the time he comes out from the normal hole then go back and coming for the break, i think he dosne know what to do ,he isnt crawling and i think its beacause hes kinda stuck that way.he also eating the shell all the time downwards from the break,looks like its in order to connect it to the normal opening. Do you think i shold try breaking this part? is not in a place i think will harm him and it looks like he's in distress
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Post by helptoall on Apr 9, 2017 21:21:02 GMT
he can fully retracked deeper then the hole
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Post by helptoall on Apr 9, 2017 22:31:18 GMT
it looks something like this, the marked area is where the hole is
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Post by jolovessnailies on Apr 10, 2017 13:47:20 GMT
Oh sweetie, I hope he isn't in any discomfort. I have no experience of this so I am unable to give any advice. Anything I say would be guess work and that is so not safe. Etana will know what to do bless her. Please keep us updated.
Hugs JO xx
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Post by helptoall on Apr 10, 2017 23:07:09 GMT
He seems better now after i cut a piece of the shell and"connected" the holes.he ate some and pooped. Right now both of them together do you think its ok? the new one is much smaller,the big one wony hurt him?
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Post by etana on Apr 11, 2017 4:56:39 GMT
Sorry for the slow reply, I'm bedridden with the flu. However you did what I would have told you to do, very carefully removing the piece that the snail wants to remove anyway. I'm glad that it seems it was the right thing to do.
It is probably good to house them together. Some recovering snails seem to do much better with a friend. However as was discussed about wild snails, watch their interactions a bit. It's not good if they repeatedly bite each other in the face over food or rasp each others' shells. Sitting on top of each other is ok as long as neither is in distress (you will see squirming and reaching out for nothing if it's not ok) and the shells don't get further damaged.
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Post by jolovessnailies on Apr 11, 2017 9:15:18 GMT
Sorry you are poorly Etana love, I hope you feel better soon. Glad snaily is better Helptoall hunni, please keep us updated.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by helptoall on Apr 12, 2017 13:31:13 GMT
Well from what ive seen they dont interact so much, at the first day there was one time that the big one started to rasp on the baby's shell and i took a piece of calciume and pushed it to his face so he moved to rasping it,but besides that i havent seem them interacting at all
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Post by etana on Apr 13, 2017 5:23:25 GMT
That's good that you interrupted the shell rasping.
There may be more interactions to come. Even healthy snails often spend some days more on their own than usual after a big change of environment.
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