Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => Pets without Feathers => Topic started by: Pretty Chick on June 15, 2010, 19:49
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I bought a live plant for my white clouded mountain minnows and a tiny snail was stuck to it :). So now we have 5 minnows and 1 snail in the tank :lol:.
I wondered if you have any suggestions for a name we can call the snail?
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Surely there can be only one choice Brian the famous magic roundabout snail, certainly Ermintrude would allow no other.
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How tiny ? minnow food size. :)
How about crunchie. :)
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Definitely got to be Brian :D
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How tiny ? minnow food size. :)
The snail is 0.5 cm long, so incredibly tiny :lol:.
Thanks for the suggestions so far (love them both), I'll take a few more before I make a final descision, so keep them coming!! :lol: :) :)
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All snails are called Brian, its the law! ::)
Well- for nice pet snails..... The rest are crunchie.....
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Brian it just has to be!
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Hi
O/H surgests,
Escargot
Slippy
Slimey....................... & Brian ! :D
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Are you sure you want to keep the snail? :unsure:
Main diet = plants and they are expensive! :blink:
Just a thought...... ;)
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Yes, "Brian" will eat all of your plant :ohmy:
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Mrs. Slowcombe - just to be different.
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All snails are called Brian, its the law! ::)
Apart from the ones that miaow and are called Gary ;)
(This probably makes no sense unless you have children in the house!!)
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All snails are called Brian, its the law! ::)
Apart from the ones that miaow and are called Gary ;)
(This probably makes no sense unless you have children in the house!!)
Or juvenile minded adults. :) viva spongebob. :D
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Sponge what?.....
Never seen it :wub: and no.. Patricks not my all time hero ;)
:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Clive.
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Yes, "Brian" will eat all of your plant :ohmy:
I'm sure it wouldn't because the plant is 20cm wide and 26 cm tall and considering that the snail is only 0.5cm long, I certainly don't think it will eat all of the plant!!!
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wait until he grows then he will :lol:
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Really :ohmy:
I buy a new plant every 2-3 weeks
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Yes, "Brian" will eat all of your plant :ohmy:
I'm sure it wouldn't because the plant is 20cm wide and 26 cm tall and considering that the snail is only 0.5cm long, I certainly don't think it will eat all of the plant!!!
Wait until he/she lays eggs and you have a couple of dozen little Brians wandering around munching.... >:(
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have we not got a picture of brian yet ????
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have we not got a picture of brian yet ????
He/She has slid off to munch the plants out of sight I expect! ::)
Or worse..... to lay eggs in private :ohmy: :blink:
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He/She has slid off to munch the plants out of sight I expect! ::)
Probably ::) ::) ::)
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Being a snail its will be he and she......
::)
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Alphonso ::)
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Are you sure you want to go through all this every time you have a snail? You may have thousands by the end of the year! :D
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So... if this snail is to stay we might as well get aquainted.... ::)
What sort of snail is it?
There are several different types of aquatic snail including some that only come out at night :blink:
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Are you sure you want to go through all this every time you have a snail? You may have thousands by the end of the year! :D
:lol: :lol: :lol: ::) :lol:.
What sort of snail is it?
There are several different types of aquatic snail including some that only come out at night :blink:
Sorry Learner, but I haven't a clue what sort of snail it is :wacko: :unsure:.
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What type of snail?
Worth finding out perhaps....
These links might help: ;)
Snail Species (http://www.planetinverts.com/snail_species.html)
Pest or Pet? (http://ezinearticles.com/?Aquarium-Snails---Pets-or-Pests?&id=527767)
Tropical Aquarium Snails (http://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/snails.htm)
Hope this is of some help. :)
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Thanks Learner :).
Our snail looks like the pond snail in the Snail Species link :).
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Thanks Learner :).
Our snail looks like the pond snail in the Snail Species link :).
Is that good or bad news for the plants? :ohmy:
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Thanks Learner :).
Our snail looks like the pond snail in the Snail Species link :).
Is that good or bad news for the plants? :ohmy:
Oh dear, poor plant ::) :lol: :lol:.
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Well, we couldn't find Brian for about a week and came to the conclusion that the minnows ate him.
But yesterday he emerged from his hiding place (slots in the filter) and has laid eggs all over the filter ::).
When I had a closer look, there was also a mini Brian!!
I guess we are now going to get a tank full of Brians ::) :lol: :lol:
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Are you sure you want to go through all this every time you have a snail? You may have thousands by the end of the year! :D
I rest my case! :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Are you sure you want to go through all this every time you have a snail? You may have thousands by the end of the year! :D
I rest my case! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Mine too.
Plants = nil
Snails = thousands :wacko:
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Does this need moving to the world cup thread? ??? :D
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Does this need moving to the world cup thread? ??? :D
World cup??? What world cup? Golf...cricket....droning cars....motorbikes...athletics...football....snooker............. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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I'm sorry to announce that we now have thousands of Brians ::) :lol: :lol:.
Learner, tosca ect. were right, I soon wont be able to see the 5 minnows because there are so many snails ::) :lol: :tongue2: :tongue2:.
I don't even know which is the original Brian.
One is enormous and doesn't look like a pond snail at all. We can't work it out because the original Brian who is a pond snail has produced all of these and the enormous one is more than double his size and looks completely different to him.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to why it's soooooo different?
Anyone want to suggest a name or two for the enormous snail? ;)
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Both snails should be called Pests...... and the different looking one has been there all the time getting ready to munch holes in your plants. ::)
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and the different looking one has been there all the time getting ready to munch holes in your plants. ::)
I'm sure Brian the pond snail was the only one to begin with.
I've been quite surprised because the snails don't really eat the plant (thankfully) they eat the left over fish food off the stones at the bottom of the tank
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and the different looking one has been there all the time getting ready to munch holes in your plants. ::)
I'm sure Brian the pond snail was the only one to begin with.
I've been quite surprised because the snails don't really eat the plant (thankfully) they eat the left over fish food off the stones at the bottom of the tank
Useful... some people, with tropical tank set-ups, like to have catfish to do that... a bit more entertaining than snails I think.
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and the different looking one has been there all the time getting ready to munch holes in your plants. ::)
I'm sure Brian the pond snail was the only one to begin with.
I've been quite surprised because the snails don't really eat the plant (thankfully) they eat the left over fish food off the stones at the bottom of the tank
Useful... some people, with tropical tank set-ups, like to have catfish to do that... a bit more entertaining than snails I think.
Probably ::) :D
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Once I get some more suggestions of names for the enormous snail, I'll put them into a hat and the one I pull out will be his/her name :).
So keep 'em coming ;) :lol:
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Ermentrude :D
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Ermentrude :D
Magic ;) :lol:
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on the same lines how about Mr McHenry, after all he said it's time for bed and your enormous snail has his own bed :lol:
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Mr. McHenry? Things have moved on or else I'm getting very forgetful in my old age. I thought it was Zebedee. Which wouldn't be a bad name either.
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arrgh yes it was zebedee!! - Mr McHenry rode the bike didn't he :lol:
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arrgh yes it was zebedee!! - Mr McHenry rode the bike didn't he :lol:
Wasn't it Dylan who rode a bike?
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arrgh yes it was zebedee!! - Mr McHenry rode the bike didn't he :lol:
Wasn't it Dylan who rode a bike?
No Dylan played the guitar , like man
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Dylan was the coolest and most laid back rabbit ever :lol:
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Dylan was the coolest and most laid back rabbit ever :lol:
Are you sure he didn't ride a bike too? ;)
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Watersnail name?
You got a problem, how about 'Fecund'
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Watersnail name?
You got a problem, how about 'Fecund'
That's very productive thinking! ;)
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Bri
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Gordon Brown
You didn`t want him but you got him anyhow. :)
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Gordon Brown
You didn`t want him but you got him anyhow. :)
:lol: :lol: