Pet Snail Chapter Two
So, I got my new found pet, the baby snails… there was a wrong info yesterday though, instead of 5 baby snails, it was 6! Six! I found one on the underside of the leaf a while after I blogged. But I notice 2 of them didn’t move for the whole time it was in the container.. I pressume it was dead, coz I observe them espcially for a looooong time. so I throw salt on one of them to experiment. It was disappointing though, the baby snails were so tiny that one grain of salt is enough to cover the hole of the shell, so I don’t hear any ppssstt sound, not even the movement of the snail…
The 2nd one, I use toothpick to make sure if its dead first. I turn it around and start tossing it around with the toothpick, I soaked the toothpick before hand so it won’t dry the snail up.. the snail didn’t budge. I try to poke the slimy body. But I think I poked a little too much. The slime got onto my toothpick. I am sure part of the body landed on my toothpick already, so I didn’t really need to certify it dead. But I am pretty sure it was already dead before my toothpick split his slime.
So now, four baby snails in my care. I asked my cousin to help me buy a proper tank while I was at work. Now I got a tank !! lol..
I did a lot of research last night, on snails basically. Found quite a lot of amazing facts about them. You know what? Snails are …. Unisex!! Or actually Dual sexed! They’re both male and female, each and every one of them. Their egg bag is somewhere around the head, and their deeks apparently is where it should be. So each and every snail can lay eggs. They actually go thru courtship before they mate, and after they mate, which consist of shooting their love slime on each other’s head ( so that’s where the porn hobbies originated from ) they stay together for a while. Aaawww how sweet. The more I read about snails, I find them a lot more cuter then what I expected before I find them. I really wanted to put their photo on this blog, but it seems that no camera I have around is good enough to take a photo of an object this size. Unless I get the camera with super macro mode function which I have been hoping to get for a long time but lets put that aside for now.. I am really quite disappointed that I couldn’t take a proper photo of them, coz they look just like birds droppings on leaf when taken a photo of.
Another funny thing that I found out is that, slugs… you know slugs? They were actually snails… but snails who lost their shells.. aaaaaww how cute. Shell-less snail = slugs… one of the reason I heard was because they’re deprive of calcium, thus eating their own shell to get the source of calcium they need, but the funny thing is, the reason why they need calcium is mainly because they need to keep their shell… healthy, so I don’t see the reason why they eat their own shell to get calcium for their shell. But then again, they’re slimy little creatures which I doubt have much use of their brain even if they have one.
I come across this two sites while doing my research, and a few more which was funny, but I’ll just post 2 url up.
http://www.anderbergfamily.net/ant/snail/adventure.html
This is more like a badly done comic strip but, just read it, its super cute.
http://www.blogjam.com/2005/08/02/garden-snail-risotto
And this………….. is what I’ll never do to my snails.. the most I will really do is to grow them up and hope they mate and give me baby snails, then I’ll throw salt on them and do my ever wanted to try experiment. Well at least I don’t *** them….
I was working at a different type of job today, leaflets…. Yeah.. u know stand there, give out leaflet, and the “BEST” part is you know what? You really do JUST giving out leaflet. NOTHING ELSE. It was one hell of a boring job, I already couldn’t stand this kind of torture for one day, and I am going thru it tomorrow, I wonder how am I going to survive… But poor moo have to go thru that the whole of next week. Buaahahaha I am so damn glad I didn’t accept the job offer because I initially wanted only Sunday to be free for me but the agency cancel out the whole week’s job coz I can’t do Sunday. Initially I though this was bad, but it turns out good ^^ I hope they give me other jobs on week days though, so at least I have something to survive on. I am getting more and more anxious about $ coz of the half promises I made to some people.No I didn’t owe people $. Probably just some birthday presents or some donno whatever occasion present.
My diet haven’t been going too well, and people have started to say I look so different from my photo last year… oh man… I really need to slim down, maybe this coming week when moo is working I will go for some swimming trips. I haven’t been swimming for a long while and I really do miss it.
My resolve before this year ends ! Go back to 50 kg! Gambatte!!!! I hope! I want! And I will!
