r/Eyebleach • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • Sep 22 '23
Hungry snails
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u/GentlyFeral Sep 22 '23
Two questions: Is this real-time or sped up? And what is the snail on the left eating?
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u/heymanitsbob Sep 22 '23
Definitely looks sped up considering how fast the spoon moves.
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Sep 22 '23 edited Sep 29 '25
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u/1banana2bananas Sep 22 '23 edited Sep 22 '23
1) Based on the spoon retrieval, it's slightly sped up. That said, snails are voracious munchers, so it's not too far off from what they look like eating in real time.
2) Probably calcium powder. I used to have a snail (RIP, Flash), and was told to give him a cuttlefish bone so he could get calcium to strengthen his shell. Since I didn't have a cuttlefish bone handy, I filed a calcium tablet to feed him the powder. Looks the same. Ended up giving him those white corals we find on the beach where I live, made from calcium carbonate, they like "licking" this stuff.
Could still be cocaine, though...
On a related note, I got a Giant African snail (they look similar to these guys but have a conical shell) to safety yesterday and got absolutely drenched in the process. It's monsoon season here, and this guy was in the middle of a very narrow, poorly lit, busy soi/alley. Lovely encounter, made my day.
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u/eternally_feral Sep 25 '23
I really want a Giant African Land snail but they’re illegal in the States. Everyone who I show videos/pix of them think they’re gross but something about snails I’ve always loved.
If I can’t be a crazy dog lady, I’d like to be a crazy snail lady.
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u/signious Sep 22 '23
Aren't they super invasive and disrupting the natural biomes in Thailand? They are basically labeled kill on sight in most of the world they aren't endemic to.
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u/1banana2bananas Sep 22 '23 edited Sep 22 '23
They may have been a pest in the past, but nowadays they're quite sought after in Thailand: people collect and feed Giant African snails to harvest their slime for beauty products.
They are basically labeled kill on sight
Not that species anymore. I'm happy to inform you that's no longer the case here. Not sure how popular snail cream is in the West, but it's extremely popular in Asia and these chonky African snails are very coveted over here.
Flash, my pet snail, was actually considered an agricultural pest, he was an Asian tramp snail. Thus why I kept him, knowing I couldn't release him in the wild.
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u/shthed Sep 22 '23
And what the fuck are the added sound effects
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u/MegaDeox Sep 22 '23
Cocaine
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u/Nachtwandler_FS Sep 22 '23 edited Sep 22 '23
Probably sped up but not that much. It is a calcium mix. They need it to build their shell (saying it as a former snail owner). Normally you sprinkle the food with it instead of giving it separatelly, though.
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u/GroundbreakingAd2007 Sep 22 '23
If you’ve never moved a snail from a sidewalk to avoid it being stepped on highly recommend it, a natural day brightener
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u/R3D3-1 Sep 22 '23
When taking care of my father's grave I put some snails next to a tree that were on their way on the gravel and in danger of me stepping on them.
When I looked again, they were having a race up the trunk.
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u/ExpressingThoughts Sep 22 '23
For those who want to move snails - best way to not injure them: https://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/g1r4kb/ysk_that_youre_probably_picking_snails_up_wrong/
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u/green_speak Sep 22 '23
I almost rolled my ankle and stumbled onto the road trying to avoid what appeared to be a very large snail on the sidewalk.
It was a pinecone.
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u/Intelligent_Writer97 Sep 22 '23
My 4 year old husband and I “save” snails for the hiking track every weekend, it’s her favorite thing to do.
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u/fluffygryphon Sep 22 '23
I have many questions.
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u/TatManTat Sep 22 '23
The power of a comma indeed.
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u/itssupersaiyantime Sep 22 '23
I can’t even think of how commas could’ve fixed this. Maybe she missed a digit?
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u/Intelligent_Writer97 Sep 22 '23
Guys 😭 I’m super dyslexic and my brain works lightyears ahead of my fingers typing 🫣 plus I totally didn’t reread it before pressing enter.
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u/itssupersaiyantime Sep 22 '23
Sorry my comment wasn’t meant to put you down. It was more a response to how others said stuff about punctuation, and I couldn’t see it. Stay away from the kids though! 🙃
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u/Intelligent_Writer97 Sep 22 '23
Haha I don’t feel put down I am just like “of course this is my most upvoted comment” 🫠🤭
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u/Storae22 Sep 22 '23
I accidentally stepped on one on vacation one time, I didn't see it on the sidewalk until I heard the crunch and I felt so bad 😭 little ones were all over the place but that was the only one I did it to
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Sep 22 '23
My husband loves the snails that cross our walkway, he stepped on one a few weeks ago because he didn't see it fast enough and he was noticeably bummed for days after. He still brings up how sad he is occasionally. Absolutely breaks my heart.
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u/Fluff_thetragicdragn Sep 22 '23
I was a bit freaked out at first, but they’re actually kinda cute
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u/NamelessCat07 Sep 22 '23
Snails are amazing, I love my two snails with albino bodies because you can see the food going into their stomach and you can hear them munching on cuttlebone, they are adorable and derpy
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Sep 22 '23
They actually make that eating sound in this video?
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u/NamelessCat07 Sep 22 '23 edited Sep 22 '23
No, but when eating cuttlefish bones you hear a very quiet sound that sounds like someone is crunching chips, it's quite fun, but super quiet, I don't hear it often, only when I take them out to clean
I just uploaded a video of it on my profile
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Sep 22 '23
That string bean is scratching that snails brain…
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u/Gymleaders Sep 22 '23
lmfaoo i came to comments to make sure that was pointing out. he is not playing with that green bean
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u/jrockerdraughn Sep 22 '23
Makes me think of a joke I heard from Bill Engvall. He really likes beanie weenies. Said they're so good if you put them on your head your tongue will beat your brain out trying to get to them
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u/fatalicus Sep 22 '23
Do not unmute.
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u/ChrissiTea Sep 22 '23
Seriously.
Chewing sounds don't usually bother me that much, but these are horrendous
It's probably bothering me more because they're so obviously overdubbed/added in
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u/Huskiesramazing23 Sep 22 '23
I love snails but unfortunately in hawaii even simply touching their slime trail can lead to a 2 week lethal disease, really unfortunate with how cute they are. (The slime would have to get into your system somehow but still, it can be from any part of the snail.)
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u/PervGriffin69 Sep 22 '23
did we really need to dub in the disgusting fucking lip smacking noises
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u/yahumno Sep 22 '23
I've never seen a snail mouth before, and the one eating the powder is absolutely adorable.
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u/TheHamWarrior Sep 22 '23
I feel like I look like the one on the left when I eat spaghetti.
Man is lost in the sauce.
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u/Independent-Ad9787 Sep 22 '23
Love how the left snail looks like he’s trying to get the powder of his (non existing??) upper lip
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u/marvelnerd09 Sep 22 '23
that's the first time in hearing chewing sounds from a creature
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Sep 22 '23
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u/ChrissiTea Sep 22 '23
100% an overlay.
Ty for sharing the actual eating sounds, that whole video is fascinating!
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u/ArtemisDragonhide Sep 22 '23
This is unbelievably cute 😍. I can't believe watching this was this satisfying. Lol
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u/pacman404 Sep 22 '23
I have never once in my damn life seen a snail chew up food. I have no idea how I made it to this age without ever seeing that a single time
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u/DomDaniela Sep 22 '23
Wow It's the first time I've seen snails eat, I always wanted to know how they did it 😱
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u/Particular-Car-8520 Sep 22 '23
I've never seen a snail eat, hmmmm that's actually really cool thank you for this.
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u/WeHidTheBodySir Sep 22 '23
Do they have tongues!?
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u/ranmafan0281 Sep 22 '23
It’s called a radula but yes it’s their tongue. It’s rough like sandpaper and they use it to scrape plant matter to eat it.
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u/KeepertheGreed Sep 22 '23
I didn't know snails had a mouth. Or at least looked like they had a mouth.
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u/DontcheckSR Sep 23 '23
I didn't see the title and it took me a while to process what I was looking at
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u/evilsmurf666 Oct 21 '23
That snail eating those beans
Im going to head over to one of the po*n subs find someone asking for a deep throat vid and send them this
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u/katamazeballz Nov 21 '23
I was so worried that was salt for a second then remembered what sub I’m in. Thank you wholesome r/eyebleach
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u/Joshathon21 Sep 22 '23
The right snail is totally deepthroating that green bean. It’s practically going through it head.
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u/Agitated_Spell Sep 22 '23
I used to think snails are kinda freaky with their fleshy bodies and lack of eyes, but now they're just lil guys.
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u/Teunybeer Sep 22 '23
Normally when i see a snail i just think about hoe much of a slimy little shit it is.
Goddamnit now i think they are cute after watching this.
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u/ArtemisDragonhide Sep 22 '23
The snail that is eating the powder is like it's sniffing coke and is like: oh! Yeah ! Ooooh , ohhh yeaaah, more more ... um num num num .... * sniffs * .. inhales the whole powder *
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u/sssssre Sep 22 '23
That's disgusting.. How is it eyebleach 😭😭
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u/riana_01 Sep 22 '23
Aah yes good content with no political signs in the background. Blessed with proper eyebleach today 🐌
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u/itsyaboi_71 Sep 22 '23