05-07-2012, 10:26 PM | #1 |
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Slugs.... lots of slugs
Well, as the title says, we seem to have had a slug explosion in the last few months.
Aside from picking them off our flowers, I was just moving Fiorano back into her house (as it looks like it might rain), and there was a small slug on her shell. So I flicked it off, and opened the house up.... 3 more slugs in there... and these were proper big buggers too, about 3 inches long and fat too, 1 in their water dish, 2 on their food I am absolutely sick of these blasted things, so any ideas how to stop them in a tortoise friendly manner? I was thinking of maybe a 'sand pit' in front of the door for the torts to walk through? or would slugs go over the sand? Just wish we had a resident hedgehog, he'd have a field day! lol
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05-07-2012, 10:28 PM | #2 |
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What about salt? It kills them could you put round the area? or some people sink glasses of beer in the ground because they love it as far as I know.
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05-07-2012, 11:09 PM | #3 |
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I thought about the salt, but I wouldn't want the torts eating it
probably not a bad idea with the beer, assuming they'd me more attracted to the beer than the weeds?! Though I''m not sure I want to share my beer with them
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When I first moved here we had slugs- but few snails. Now we have loads of slugs of all sizes and also two kinds of snails. One very small one and one huge brown one which is just disgusting. Many a night I've gone out in the dark damp to check on tortoises and stood on a large brown snail shell and making a sickening crunching sound.
I have some frogs about and I am told that they eat slugs but I've never seen one do that.
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Chickens will rid you of slugs and snails for good. Or you can get animal friendly slug pellets.
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Set a yeast trap in the garden works a treat
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Thanks for all the suggestions, we like the Chicken Idea, but we're in the middle of a housing estate and our garden isn't really that big
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06-07-2012, 08:40 AM | #8 |
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OK, ordered, lets give it a go
not ordered from that website though as the 'store' link is dead. lol
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06-07-2012, 08:45 AM | #9 |
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It was on about it on the news, there's an invasion of Spanish slugs http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18685229
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Get some redfoots they eat slugs and snails !!!!
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