I’m so shocked to learn that some snails can live to be 15 years old! Would yall post pics or comment about your oldest snail(s) and let me know how many months or years, and what breeds your most beloved snails are? I’m so intrigued!
I’ve been frequenting the petco near my home for the chance of finding live snails (they’re always dead there). I finally found this good-sized mystery snail, and the store clerk dropped him on the hard floor 😭 I don’t know much about snails, but it’s been a few hours and he’s just now emerging from his shell like this. He was all closed up before when I put him on the drift wood, then I came back a while later and he’s like this. It looks like he’s moving! Quite the concussion he suffered! I’m going to throw little man some cuttlefish bone and wish him luck ❤️🩹
ps. I flipped him right side up after this video and he retracted into his shell.
I returned his *favorite* basking platform to his tank. I thought he would like a larger one, but he nearly went on a basking strike for like two weeks after I installed it! Silly me, idk what I was thinking! Well, this is him a whopping 3 minutes after I put his old platform back in his tank. I tried to tell him it’s nighttime, but he says it’s okay- he’s been waiting for this.
My score might actually be higher than I initially thought 😅 “Did a parent or other adult in the household often or very often... Push, grab, slap, or throw something at you? or Ever hit you so hard that you had marks or were injured?”
This is a Yes or No question on the Adverse Childhood Experiences Score.
If I received corporal punishment one time that left welts would the answer be yes or no? Does the context matter?
Do yall like 3d printed aquarium accessories? Do you have any favorites that you have or that you want? Here‘s a pic of a little hide/cave on Etsy. And I’ve seen a lot of betta hides or betta hammocks on Amazon. My husband printed something to help a filter fit on the edge of an aquarium I have, but I don’t have anything in the water (yet?)
Teeny guy was hidden in a recent plant purchase 🙂
Hi! Meet my new oto cat! He gets his other otocat tank mates this week, and currently has a hitchhiker snail living with him, and hopefully i will get more snails this week too(my store doesn’t have a good stock). He loves leaf grazing here, he has a peace lily (roots only in water) and drift wood in here too, but this is his favorite area! Can I get away with more live plants, an air stone, and NO filter? I’m scared all my little guys might get lost/injured by even my smallest filter 😥
Seeking some advice for this little guy. His name is Prison Mike (from The Office). He had VERY puffy eyes when I first got him a few months ago and he couldn’t dive, and was coated in this kind of bio-film all over. He shaped up pretty good and eats well and basks, but just recently he got this thing below his eye? I don’t want to mess with it without knowing what it is. Any insight or advice is greatly appreciated! Also, what do yall think about the size of his eyes now- do they look normal or puffy?
thanks!
Hello everyone! This is Gordon (Ramsay). He‘s an absolute savage and I love him. I think he’s a mud turtle? Eastern mud? I was hoping people could help me identify him properly. He was rescued from a restaurant‘s crawfish shipment. He arrived on ice along with the crawfish that were shipped from Louisiana. Thank you all!
My senior boy is 13.5 years. In the last 5-7 years, he has become aggressive and bit multiple people and animals, sending multiple to hospital requiring stitches, surgery, etc.
He has “doggy dementia” (forgetting and not recognizing people he was once familiar with) and it worsens as his eyesight and hearing/smell is going.
He lives in my garage apartment separated from my family because he is so aggressive and unpredictable. He snaps at my small children through the window. He used to love strangers and be great with children and even other animals (I had a parrot and foster kittens and even a foster pig many years ago). He is just a completely different dog now.
This last November, he tore into a bag of tile thinset we had in the apartment after repairing our tile (it’s like concrete mix if you aren’t familiar). He has never done something like this before, he is well fed (3 cans of food a day plus any table scraps that he will accept), but this last year or so has been eating his own feces and then this incident with the thinset happened. He almost died a few weeks later (I imagine the thinset hardening in his sinuses and lungs and stomach was taking its toll). I took him to the vet and they prescribed anxiety meds and admitted they hadnt dealt with a dog getting into concrete mix before. They suggested X-rays and some other testing that would amount to $1100 before any treatment. I asked them just to skip the tests and prescribe the meds, and they did thankfully. Fastforward to now and he is surprisingly still with us!! But now he often has “asthma attacks“ and collapses in his vomit/diarrhea/urine and his head starts “listing“ to the side and his gums turn white, and a pool of saliva gathers under his face as he struggles to breathe and collapses into spit and vomit. It’s terribly sad.
He goes into his asthma attacks when he tries to bark at things, whenever he rolls around on the ground, whenever we pet him, whenever it’s cold outside, whenever there is a thunder storm, and just randomly if he gets too excited. He looks tattered after his asthma attacks, but he kind of recovers back to “normal” by the evening. The only thing he can really enjoy doing anymore without having an asthma attack is chewing bones (when he’s in the mood to).
Part of me wants to put him out of his misery (and ours if I’m honest), but at the same time I recognize he is fully my responsibility and that decision is obviously very final. Do I let him live on until one of these “attacks” inevitably takes him out? Do I euthanize him in home and try to give him a couple of last good days before I do? He has been to two vets, and they weren’t very helpful on the matter. Amy advice or criticism is welcomed!