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I've got a question that's not very Bungie-related at all, but I guess that's what this forum's for. Anyway: long story short, I've got some pet snails (of the ordinary garden pest variety, if that helps) that ate a lot of cardboard. It's the bleached, non-corrugated type that tastes bitter. My question is whether it's very likely to harm them since they ate enough to leave lots of pale, bleached-looking snail poop.

Since someone will probably ask, I've got lots of snails that I collected because they were stranded, injured, etc.

  • 05.31.2004 8:20 PM PDT
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Why would you give them bleached cardboard? I would presume they are sick, UNLESS: they have some immunity to Clorox

  • 05.31.2004 8:22 PM PDT
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I didn't expect anyone to think that I meant to give the cardboard to them as food, since I'm worried that they ate it...

I used it to keep the other critters that share thier terrarium from escaping by blocking a potential exit.

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Just in case...
I did not bleach the cardboard. It was the material I had on hand, and bleached is how it was. The cardboard was packaging for some chocolate eaty thing for humans, if you care to know.

[Edited on 5/31/2004 8:36:45 PM]

  • 05.31.2004 8:33 PM PDT
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Well I have a PHD in snail cre " :P " anyway my recomendation is that the snails get plenty of water and lots of grass to munch. Oh and maybe some fruit thats ground up and stuff...have you created an artificial habitat...like a container with grass and dirt etc?

  • 05.31.2004 8:36 PM PDT
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Umm... they live in a terrarium with two toads, a few flavours of moss, some weird looking succulent spiny rosette thingies that they like to eat, some various ivys, whatever crickets are not yet eaten by the toads, and whatever other things have made a home there- like mites, bacteria, stuff that I don't notice.

  • 05.31.2004 8:41 PM PDT
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Wow, Quite the Bugmaster we got here.

  • 05.31.2004 8:46 PM PDT
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I'm not much a master of anything, as evidenced by the topic of this thread... Actually, what's funny is that I don't have a single captive hemipteran about! Lol.

Getting back on topic... What's the prognosis, doc? Are they gonna live to see tomorrow?

  • 05.31.2004 8:50 PM PDT
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I'm starting to get the impression that no one here cares about my snails' health. Odds are they won't live to see tomorrow... (just kidding)
Someone else assures me that they'll be fine.
*leaves, humming "Secret Agent Man"*

  • 05.31.2004 9:43 PM PDT
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oh your snails will be fine. as long as they get plenty of grass and water and LOTS of dirt and space to roam around in they'll be happy and llive a happy life. DO they get lots of rocks or twigs to climb on? excercise is key....

  • 05.31.2004 9:46 PM PDT
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Yeah, you better get some newer, better excersise equipment for them, they might be wearing out due to how fast those snails can go.

[Edited on 5/31/2004 9:48:10 PM]

  • 05.31.2004 9:47 PM PDT
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*snicker*

no but seriously. Animals of any species like to feel at home and think they havent been captured and put in a jar. Besides snails are like goats...they could eat all your laundry and still keep livin. I doubt a few chomps on cardboadr will damage your snails. They'er quite resiliant...some snails are even immune to pesticides...

*glances around nervously*

  • 05.31.2004 9:51 PM PDT