I'm curious as to the various eyes and things that start out protruding, get sucked in as the snail gets the treat, then pushed out again as the treat is safely absorbed. Is this a law of conservation of protrusion or something? What's going on?
It could be an African giant land snail, at least from some of the comments on the many, many posts I've seen with this GIF. (I've been looking for hours -- yes, hours -- trying to find the source video.) I don't know if they eat mealworms, or whatever that is.
I kept snails in a glass tank when I was a kid. They were just the brown snails I took out of the garden. (Which, in hindsight, I think were an invasive species, like the African giant land one. Fortunately they're much smaller.)
I fed them lettuce and veggie trimmings. Not only did they thrive, but laid eggs in the dirt on the bottom of the tank, which hatched into cute tiny baby snails. Lots and lots of baby snails.
The snails were cute to watch. When they weren't eating veggies, they'd crawl around on the glass scraping off algae or whatever with their radulas. It wasn't as cute when they started scraping the wire grate cover over the top of the tank in the middle of the night. (I think they were getting minerals off of the wire, which had a lot of mineral scaling on it when I set it up.) The tank was in my bedroom. It sounded like knives being sharpened right next to my head.
I couldn't squish them, so the whole family went back in the garden. My mom was not amused.
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Date: 2015-08-26 12:44 pm (UTC)I kept snails in a glass tank when I was a kid. They were just the brown snails I took out of the garden. (Which, in hindsight, I think were an invasive species, like the African giant land one. Fortunately they're much smaller.)
I fed them lettuce and veggie trimmings. Not only did they thrive, but laid eggs in the dirt on the bottom of the tank, which hatched into cute tiny baby snails. Lots and lots of baby snails.
The snails were cute to watch. When they weren't eating veggies, they'd crawl around on the glass scraping off algae or whatever with their radulas. It wasn't as cute when they started scraping the wire grate cover over the top of the tank in the middle of the night. (I think they were getting minerals off of the wire, which had a lot of mineral scaling on it when I set it up.) The tank was in my bedroom. It sounded like knives being sharpened right next to my head.
I couldn't squish them, so the whole family went back in the garden. My mom was not amused.
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