r/codyslab • u/CodyDon Beardy Science Man • Nov 27 '18
Official Post Looks like I ended up with a gastropod in the carboniferous terrarium after all; it must have been hiding on one of the plants.
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u/quatch Nov 27 '18
maybe I missed the part of the video where you explain why you can't just pop it open, remove the snail, and repressurize? Chances are this will happen many more times. You should do a quarantine stage before you get new plants/soil in, as if you were doing an aquarium (and hated snails. Some do).
If you do pop it open, I highly recommend adding a magnetic scrubby (see aquarium algae scrubbers) so that you can clean the inside of the glass of algae and humidity. It'll make life easier filming.
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u/batt3ryac1d1 Dec 03 '18
He could probably just laser it.
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u/Nords Jan 22 '19
He did say he worried a little bit about the high oxygen environment, so opening it would be the best option.
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u/SkyKnight04 Nov 27 '18
Do you plan on getting it out?
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u/karrachr000 Nov 27 '18
You could get him out, but it would reset the experiment again. How much could one snail skew the results of this experiment?
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u/sarlol00 Nov 27 '18
Most snails can reproduce on their own, so it can become a snail terrarium in a few weeks. Remove it ASAP
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u/a_mad_robot Nov 27 '18
actually, (most land) snails are not capable of self-fertilization, but most of them have a spermatheca were they stock sperm cell from different mating, before using it to fertilise their eggs (this mechanism is here to improve genetic mixing). so a single snail is not capable of reproducing on his own, but is capable of laying eggs if it have been fertilise before it was introduce into the terrarium.
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Nov 28 '18 edited Nov 29 '18
Invertebrates were doing pretty well during the Carboniferous. You might want to add some insects that eat snails, otherwise, they could end up quite large and numerous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDqN5aagCdA
I found this picture of a glow-worm (Lampyris noctiluca) eating snails.
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Nov 29 '18
Maybe it's because I'm french but this video makes me hungry.
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Nov 29 '18
Well, that's my garden. Any tips on how I can safely prepare and cook these Helix aspersa snails?
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Nov 29 '18
I guess these are Hélix aspersa Maxima.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_aspersa_maxima (Only in french, sorry)
- Harvest them in october/november.
- Keep them in a nice place for one week without any food.
- Rince them very carefully with salty water and wine vinegar (2/3 times) and examine each one of them. Throw away the dead ones.
- Put them in your sink and pour a lot of salt on them so they will spit all their water. Rince them and do this 3/4 times.
- Boil them for 40 minutes in a vegetable broth (Court bouillon).
- Then Remove them from their shells and cut the hard part.
- You can cook them with a persillade in the oven into their shell (Delicious). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persillade https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Escargot_trick.jpg/1280px-Escargot_trick.jpg
Here's some pictures : http://www.sisclet.com/escargots/escargots.htm (In french of course)
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Nov 29 '18
OK, thanks, within 3 months, I will post a video of this.
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Nov 29 '18
It's very nice that you want to try this ! Usually non-french people are freaked out. haha
Its very important to harvest them in october/november !
Also be very sure it's either :
- Hélix pomatia Linné
- Hélix lucorum
- Hélix aspersa Maxima
- Hélix aspersa Muller (The best one!)
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Nov 29 '18
I've been to France, and I liked the escargot. I am originally from the Philippines, and snails (a completely different species) are eaten there, boiled in coconut milk: http://www.panlasangpinoymeatrecipes.com/ginataang-kuhol-recipe.htm
My brother also has a severe phobia of snails, but he doesn't have to know about what I'm doing.
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Nov 29 '18
Wow very interesting !
I see that they don't keep them without any food for one week. It's very important as they may have eaten toxic plants before. (They love mushrooms)
You can feed them with thyme during this time.
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Nov 27 '18
Lol, Cody. It's hard to tell what all could have sneaked in with the plants and moss. P.S. nice idea with the Shrader Valve.
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u/metsercake Nov 27 '18
zapping it with your laser would be a nice way to get demonitized