New food item

[Gyre]

I'm not bothered by anything little, slimy or crunchy, lol, but my poor gandfather stepped, (barefoot) on a HUGE leopard slug..
http://images.google.com/images?q=tb...ages/limax.jpg

It says they only grow to four inches, but i see a lot that are at least six, six and half.. What makes this story amazingly rich, is that my grampa couldn't look at earthworms and not shudder... It was so funny.

The leopard slug mating ritual is also pretty cool.. Slug acrobatics.

[adamanteus]

I once read somewhere that Australia has a venomous slug! What's the point of that?

"Oh no! It's a venomous slug! Run away, tomorrow!"

[ClosedCasket88]

yes my garters have eaten slugs, the beigh ones b4 , butsometiems they will excrete soo much slime the graters will toos it up and skitz out in to ther den or something. io tried the caned snails and theywouldnt take them,my male eastern likes when i pull out the tongs so i would give him a few chunks of worms then fter like 3 i would slip in some slugs some of them he would spit out and some of them he would eat. besides that the snails in a can never had to much succes, but fresh slugs i find outside seem to gety eaten occasionaly .
as a defense the slugs will stiffen all up and become rather thick making it impossible for yoursnake to eat it but if you grab some small guys , mostly the tanish beigh colored ones they usualy work well.

[adamanteus]

Yes Ryan, that's what I have found. The tan/beige ones are the only ones that seem palatable to snakes.

[GarterGuy]

I once read somewhere that Australia has a venomous slug! What's the point of that?

"Oh no! It's a venomous slug! Run away, tomorrow!"

It's Australia.......don't they have to have a venomous everything!

[Thamnophis]

That venomous slug from Australia... wouldn't that be a sea-slug?

[adamanteus]

That venomous slug from Australia... wouldn't that be a sea-slug?

I really don't know, Fons. I read it somewhere years ago, and just thought "What? Where's the point in that?"

[Thamnophis]

I can imagine that a (sea)snail that catches other animals to eat is venomous.
But when a landsnail is venomous it might protect him/her from being eaten because he doesn't taste that good.
Like Bufo marinus...

[adamanteus]

I was thinking of the distinction between venomous and poisonous. Poisonous, bad to eat....venomous, bad to get bitten or stung by!

[KITKAT]

There's also a dif between poisonous and toxic.

Poisonous = life threatening

Toxic = makes you nice and sick