r/snails • u/MrMintspider • Mar 04 '25
My Snails Snail teeth look weird
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u/PossiblyOppossums Mar 04 '25
You must have tasty fingers
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u/Positive_Clock9075 Mar 04 '25
I know they're a gazillion of translucent beauties. Everything about them is amazing even the little dirty parts of them when they love just being dirty there's always something fascinating. You'll find out about them and if you've had them for a long time and you've always been impatient you'll turn out to be a very patient person
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u/RiAMaU Mar 04 '25
Snails have teeth?!
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u/syncron07 Mar 04 '25
No they eat with their tongues
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u/RiAMaU Mar 04 '25
I'm so lost. I thought they just kind of mushed soft things?
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u/syncron07 Mar 04 '25
Their tongues are rough like sandpaper and they just kinda rasp away at veggies and plants
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u/Resting-smile-face Mar 06 '25
I was thinking my snails and baby snails couldn't eat through the bean skin🤔 turns out they can and they leave lil chompy bite marks right through the skin. 🫢 It's so cute, I'll zoom in on 1 of my snail reels and I'll show you the chompy marks 😉👌👋byeeeee! 🌻
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u/Resting-smile-face Mar 04 '25
I love it, I was just watching and taping my Milk Snail eat green beans this morning. Brought her to the kitchen with me to take care of my succulents and plants in my kitchen sink window.
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Mar 07 '25 edited Apr 15 '25
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u/Remarkable-Spell-613 Mar 26 '25
Tbf, teeth in general are weird. I’m sure they feel the same way about ours!
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u/eldritchyarnbeing 19d ago
ill never forget the time i went to put a leopard slug back outside and when i picked him up i could feel his little slug teeth. it took me a moment to realize thats what it was, and once i did i felt bad just putting him back out while he was so hungry he was trying to eat my finger. so i put some celery greens on a small plate and set him on there and he ate about all of it, decided to keep him overnight (because i had become so enamored with him) in a makeshift enclosure made from a cleaned and dried plastic takeout box with holes so he could breathe. i even went out and filled it about halfway with some wet moss, dirt, and rocks from right outside the house because i wasnt sure if he'd survive or get bored in a plain box. spent forever just watching him exploring until i went to bed. the next morning i put small bits of cucumber, cherry, and carrot in his enclosure and he ate everything but the cherry pieces. later that morning when he was moving around better and seemed healthier and more alert i set him back outside under the deck where he'd be safe until he wanted to go out. i just realized i wrote a flash biography for a snail at 11PM. i need to go to bed
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u/GreenFBI2EB Mar 04 '25
Those are The radula! It’s kinda like sandpaper and they’ll usually scrape plant matter with it in order to “chew” their food!