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    Slug pics? (unfertilised eggs, not food)

    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.
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    Re: Slug pics? (unfertilised eggs, not food)

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


    http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/bree...-question.html
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    Re: Slug pics? (unfertilised eggs, not food)

    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.
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    Re: Slug pics? (unfertilised eggs, not food)

    When I saw your photo in the Poop I.D. thread I immediately thought jellies.
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    Re: Slug pics? (unfertilised eggs, not food)

    Here's a video Stefan shot.

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    Re: Slug pics? (unfertilised eggs, not food)

    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.
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    Re: Slug pics? (unfertilised eggs, not food)

    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.
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    Re: Slug pics? (unfertilised eggs, not food)

    I wouldn't say blood in feces is normal.
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    Re: Slug pics? (unfertilised eggs, not food)

    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?
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    Re: Slug pics? (unfertilised eggs, not food)

    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.
    unfertilized eggs that caused blokage.jpgunfertilized eggs that caused blockage.jpg

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