Slugs.... lots of slugs

[shellonia]

It's good to read all this as they can be quite a problem and not without risk to tortoises.I found a big one the other day glued across the nostrils of one of my tortoises. Saw her frantically using her leg to try and remove it but they stick like glue! Gave me quite a scare.In this awful weather they all take refuge in the hutches which is a real pain!

[animalmad]

Originally Posted by shellonia

It's good to read all this as they can be quite a problem and not without risk to tortoises.I found a big one the other day glued across the nostrils of one of my tortoises. Saw her frantically using her leg to try and remove it but they stick like glue! Gave me quite a scare.In this awful weather they all take refuge in the hutches which is a real pain!

yuk that sounds horrible, i have loads in my garden they come for the rabbit food that is dropped out of the hutch and get into my garden storage bin and eat the dog food and rabbit food, they are horrible slimey things.

if anyone finds a good way of removing them that is animal friendly, please let me know

oh yeah they ate the whole of my new lupins plant the other day i was soooo mad

[Xero]

Just a thought of the glasses of beer, i wouldnt acctually use glass bottles though.. just incase a tort gets a head stuck in it o.o

[Easter Bunny]

I protect my tortoise weeds I grow by planting hosta all around them. The snails/slugs seem to always go for the hosta and leave everything else alone. I have to keep buying Hosta regulary as they eat it very quick. Good thing is tortoise can eat it too.

I know you have a different problem with them getting in the enclosure, but maybe if you had some hosta around the enclosure they would be to interested in that.

[wigwamman]

we have a well tended garden,the wife is in charge of slug defences,she goes out after dark armed with a torch,plastic gloves and a bag.she can easily shift 70 to 100 slugs/snails each night.
she is for hire,can travel,give me a call on 01384 *****,we can work out a price.hee hee.

[Neddy]

Beer traps are amazing you basically put a jar in the ground and then add a bit of cheap beer and the blighters drown!!

What a way to go though

There are those plastic traps too......

[Catwoman63]

I have tons of slugs and snails as well, always find them on the tortoise food, but fortuntaley after they have eaten, some right big buggers as well, they are loving this weather x

[Gordon]

I had loads too not so many now the little buggers, in my tortoise pens i spike them on a metal kebab stick taped to a bamboo stick and then put them in a bucket of salt water as for the rest of the garden i use good old salt. one thing i have noticed is other slugs coming out to feed on the dead ones, are they eating the dead slug the salt or the slime very odd.

[Gordon]

Originally Posted by stells

I feel quite queasy now...

They go really slimey yum yum when you put salt on them Kelly

[wigwamman]

Originally Posted by stells

Really?? she goes around picking them up?? blurgh

Slug and Moths are my weakness and about the only things that have me running about screaming.

while watching tv last night she came bursting into the living room and thrust this great big sausage under my nose,trouble is it wasn't a sausage,she was so pleased with herself.