Slug pics? (unfertilised eggs, not food)

[chris-uk]

Does anyone have any pics of slugs?
I found some poo in Lacci's viv that was like three small pellets (about 3mm long, 1mm diameter) that were brownish in colour. Obviously this could be poo that had been efficiently digested, but I'm also conscious that Lacci could have ovulated.
So any of you ever taken photos of slugs? Unfortunately I removed and binned the "poo" I found before thinking that it may have been slugs.

[guidofatherof5]

I found this old thread and posted a link.
I wasn't able to just post the photo. Sorry.

http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/breeding/5451-jelly-question.html

[chris-uk]

Thanks Steve. What I saw wasn't like your jelly pic. They were more like rabbit droppings, but smaller.
I searched the forum for "slugs" rather than "jelly", just shows that the terminology varies for the same thing.

[guidofatherof5]

When I saw your photo in the Poop I.D. thread I immediately thought jellies.

[guidofatherof5]

Here's a video Stefan shot.

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[chris-uk]

Looks like I'm not looking at slugs. The other poo photo I posted in the poop ID thread showed the texture of fish skin in the grey bit.

[EasternGirl]

Greg also had pics of slugs in his thread for Fawn...the sausage thread...and he has some on his website I believe. I have a question about poo, since we are talking about it. It is perfectly normal to see blood in poo when I am chopping up pinkies for Hermes and Possum, right? I saw it in both of their poo, so I figured it was normal and just due to the fact that the pinkies are chopped up.

[guidofatherof5]

I wouldn't say blood in feces is normal.

[EasternGirl]

Well I can't be sure it was blood...and it was in both of their feces. It could have been salmon and it could have been chopped up pinky. Unfortunately I cleaned the tanks last night. I just went to look...and of course I can't find any "samples" in either enclosure now to take a picture. I am going to feed everyone again today. I will watch over the next couple of days and if I see poo that looks like that again from either Hermes or Possum, I will take a pic and post it so that you can tell me if you think it's blood or just food...okay?

[Jeff B]

sometimes a yearling female will cycle without being bred and then throw jellies. Sometimes they will cycle late and then they haven't passed the jellies before brumation. When this happens the jellies harden up and calcify and rot and bacteria take over, then when they come out of brumation they are blocked up and can't even pass waste and then become septic and die. I believe this is what happened to this female that passed a couple weeks after bringing her out of brumation. I cut her open and confirmed my suspicions, see pics.
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[chris-uk]

Thanks for those pics Jeff. I think that confirms what I saw was most likely faeces. For a start each of the 3 pellets was far smaller than anything I'm seeing in the jelly/slug pics. And the colour of jellies seems to be more yellowy-orange.

The female that would have produced this hasn't been brumated as she was locked up in October.

[chris-uk]

I also meant to say, Marnie, if you'd fed salmon at all then the "blood" is most likely that. Or did you mean blood in the chopped pinkies?

[EasternGirl]

Well, I am guessing that what I saw was probably salmon...yes. Or, the blood from the chopped pinkies? I'm thinking that if I chop the pinkies and they are passing pinky pieces in the feces, then maybe I'm seeing bloody pinky pieces in the feces..would that be possible? But interestingly, what I saw both of them pass looked like urates not feces. White stuff with red in it. They both ate the exact same thing though...salmon for the last meal and I think pinky right before that...and I feed both of them every 3-4 days.

[guidofatherof5]

Blood would have been digested under most circumstances.

[kibakiba]

My babies eat the insides of the pinky usually, and they poop brown. So blood does get digested. Salmon always makes for red poops... So it was likely that, that made it look like blood.

[chris-uk]

Well, I am guessing that what I saw was probably salmon...yes. Or, the blood from the chopped pinkies? I'm thinking that if I chop the pinkies and they are passing pinky pieces in the feces, then maybe I'm seeing bloody pinky pieces in the feces..would that be possible? But interestingly, what I saw both of them pass looked like urates not feces. White stuff with red in it. They both ate the exact same thing though...salmon for the last meal and I think pinky right before that...and I feed both of them every 3-4 days.

You shouldn't be seeing pinky pieces in the faeces. Their digestion is efficient and doesn't normally leave anything recognisable, blood would certainly be absorbed easily. Salmon is almost completely digested.

[EasternGirl]

Well...like I said, I will watch...I just fed them again today. Everyone ate pinky today. Except for Seeley, who refused to eat. But I will watch and if I see red in any feces, I will snap a pic and post it.

[chris-uk]

Well...like I said, I will watch...I just fed them again today. Everyone ate pinky today. Except for Seeley, who refused to eat. But I will watch and if I see red in any feces, I will snap a pic and post it.
Good, we like poo pics.

[kueluck]

I definitely want a male, this calcifying jellies would be just one more thing to worry about. Thanks for the heads-up on this.