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Snail traps

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:04 am
by herp boy
So i was looking for snails for Homer the other day where i all ways find them. But we have not gotten much rain lately so not very many snail's is there a way to trap snails? with out pesticides of Coors lol

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:08 am
by herp boy
Also is this ok for Blueys to eat?
http://www.sproutpeople.com/seed/wheatgrass.html

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:06 am
by Leigh
Look through the older posts, someone was on about it the other day.

If its cheap enough,go for it ,and report back how you get on.

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:04 pm
by herp boy
Ok cool but is there a kind of non dedly snail trap i can use?

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:37 pm
by Lisa
My vet told me to just put some old takeway containers upside down under a shaded, dark area of your garden with some lettuce in them and the snails would come.

But they didn't, same as you we don't get rain. And the possums ate the lettuce. Probably was worth more than just the one shot I gave it, but the main thing with snails is they like cool, damp places like under shrubs and up against shaded brick walls and fences.

You can try to plant some 'snail friendly' plants like agapanthus and other broad leaf plants, or a veggie garden.

Not sure if it's toxic to blueys, but over here an animal friendly way of trapping snails is by putting out saucers of beer. Snails drink beer, get drunk, drown in beer.

But, at the end of the day, if you don't get the rain, you don't get the snails.

Apparently garden snails are of neither sex, they turn into what they need to in order to makum babies. With that in mind, I'm considering purchasing a big batch and letting them do their thang.

Sigh. My kingdom for a snail :cry:

Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:16 pm
by herp boy
Lol i set up some thing like that but i am also tryiung to cetch salimanders