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joblow
 Post subject: Snails
PostPosted: Sep 23rd, '13, 04:22 
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How would you like these little babies munching on your plants? My mate in Chiang Mai Thailand is disposing on average twenty per day during the rainy season.

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Do you have any problems with them in large numbers up in Chaing Rai?


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Stuart Chignell
 Post subject: Re: Snails
PostPosted: Sep 23rd, '13, 04:42 
Seriously, this cant be healthy.
Seriously, this cant be healthy.
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When you say disposing of them do you mean eating them?
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PostPosted: Sep 23rd, '13, 04:46 
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Damn!
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 Post subject: Re: Snails
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That would be impressive, if you were not using a 1 year old to model them.

Standard size checks are done against a stubby. (375ml or 330ml).
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 Post subject: Re: Snails
PostPosted: Sep 23rd, '13, 16:54 
Seriously, this cant be healthy.
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There are a lot of snails that get upto 250-300mm long shells some of them in SE Asia.

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 Post subject: Re: Snails
PostPosted: Sep 23rd, '13, 18:40 
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escargot anyone...
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 Post subject: Re: Snails
PostPosted: Sep 24th, '13, 06:15 
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Stuart:

He has a special tool which is a steel tube flattened out at one end into a small trowel. He slips that under them then launches them into a big pond at the rear of his property and they become fish fodder.
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 Post subject: Re: Snails
PostPosted: Sep 24th, '13, 09:40 
Seriously, this cant be healthy.
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HOW BIG ARE THE FISH?

That they can eat a snail that size?
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 Post subject: Re: Snails
PostPosted: Sep 25th, '13, 05:06 
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Stuart:

I don't think he looks too see if the fish eat the snails or the snails eat the fish, he just wants them out of his yard.
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 Post subject: Re: Snails
PostPosted: Sep 25th, '13, 05:38 
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Since they have a relatively slow metabolism are you sure they are not just crawling out of the water?

ie he is throwing the same snails in the drink every morning?

When I had big trout I would crack the shells and throw them in the tank. Fish loved em.
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 Post subject: Re: Snails
PostPosted: Sep 25th, '13, 09:18 
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Stuart:

I think it's the whack with his steel tool he gives them before throwing them over the fence that probably stops their ability to climb back over the fence.

So I'm pretty sure he doesn't have a snail return problem it's all one way traffic.
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