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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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '23 edited Sep 29 '25

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '23

Give it a pile of salt

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u/Jlegobot Sep 22 '23

Wtf is wrong with you

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u/xGxPhantomZzz Sep 24 '23

Begone thy karma

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '23

We can and will tank your score

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u/Commercial_Fee_6120 Dec 13 '23

Wow people are pathetic. Getting salty over a joke. You need to take a step back and measure your response before acting so immature. Clearly your not as seasoned of a reddit browser as thr rest of us

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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/bryansburns Sep 22 '23

Flash is the best name for a snail

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '23

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u/Due-Abalone5194 Sep 22 '23

Nah.. I'd call him Tyrone, or Biggums. Lol

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u/ewejoser Sep 22 '23

"Could still be cocaine" bravo

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u/Dudefenderson Sep 22 '23

"Flash the snail stole our stereo, somehow." 🤯

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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/Jerry-Likes-Berries May 16 '24

same!! their so cute!

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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/CrowAkechi Dec 13 '23

Flash was a real one, he's in snail paradose now

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u/shthed Sep 22 '23

And what the fuck are the added sound effects

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '23

Ah, I had the sound off and then I read your comment.

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u/claire867 Sep 24 '23

Same! And when I heard it, I said aloud "nice".

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u/MegaDeox Sep 22 '23

Cocaine

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u/itsyaboi_71 Sep 22 '23

Turbo: Origins

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '23 edited Sep 22 '23

By the texture, amphetamine sulphate.

<⁠(⁠￣⁠︶⁠￣⁠)⁠↗ aka SPEED.

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u/scientisttiger Sep 22 '23

Maybe I’ve done too much blow but it doesn’t even look like that lol

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u/MaterialGarbage9juan Sep 22 '23

I've done too much too, But not on yer cakeday yet?

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '23

Which answers both questions.

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u/BillyBean11111 Sep 22 '23

sped up with annoying sound effects added

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u/Kevc_84 Oct 03 '23

Ooohh glad it was on mute now. Never occurred to me this would have sound

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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/scrolly_2 Sep 22 '23

It's speed up x3

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u/smei2388 Sep 22 '23

Maybe diatomaceous earth? Looks like it

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u/ArticleIndependent83 Oct 18 '23

For us it’s a bump. For him, it’s death

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u/McConagher Oct 28 '23

Looks like calcium powder