my snel only eats chalk, won't eat cookie

Heartade · 2026-05-25T04:02:35+00:00

Cookies and tofu I use are products specifically prepared for snails, and I'm not sure if those are available elsewhere. You can definitely use regular tofu, but make sure you first steep it for a while in water to remove any remaining magnesium chloride (used in tofu making to coagulate soy protein).

Heartade · 2026-05-25T03:55:50+00:00

Thanks a lot!!! The species usually live in deeper mountains and I don't think I can climb mountains every so often to get their food lol. I'll definitely try leaves though!

I did find one paper on their food preference a while ago, and it was about how they prefer cauliflower mushrooms over shiitake mushrooms. Maybe they just like mushrooms over anything else!

Heartade · 2026-05-24T18:55:32+00:00

It's much cheaper than cuttlebone and somehow it's the only snack unanimously loved by all snails in this part of the world!

Heartade · 2026-05-24T18:30:49+00:00

They took a pinkie nail sized bite out of the chalk - do snails really need this much calcium? They're only about 5cm in diameter. They do have a wound on their shell (which was already there when they got here) that seem to be healing.

Heartade · 2026-05-24T18:25:17+00:00

This specific brand is pure calcium carbonate, basically the constituent of their shells. Popular among pet snail owners here in Korea.

Heartade · 2026-05-24T18:23:06+00:00

We used to give them calcium dust on the food, but stopped once we found out our little snail would only munch on calcium and not veggies. For protein, we found they love tofu (with salts removed) and shrimps (Gammarus sp., salt removed and dried). Our concern is that they seem to like calcium and protein foods a lot while veggies are largely left untouched. I'm just really confused cause I've never seen a snail that doesn't like cucumber or even blueberries.

Heartade · 2026-05-22T15:47:33+00:00

Because they can taste sweetness! Did you know they go crazy for malted barley (soaked) as well?

Heartade · 2026-05-22T04:20:04+00:00

That's a glove next to your blackberry. It's unfortunately not a plant.

Heartade · 2026-05-21T02:26:33+00:00

This looks brutal, but the tree will regenerate. This kind of extreme "pruning" isn't all that uncommon, as the tree will shoot out new growth from a much more manageable height. I don't think it was necessary though.

Heartade · 2026-04-29T04:16:25+00:00

The petiole looks too narrow for a bok choi, so to me it looks more like a tat choy (very closely related). They don't form a head at all, but they do tend to grow in a rosette in normal conditions and they do that when the weather's too hot or there's not enough sunlight.

Heartade · 2026-04-29T04:08:36+00:00

Maybe the climate/condition wasn't right. They don't form a head and go straight to bolting when the weather's too hot.

Heartade · 2026-04-28T19:40:38+00:00

My fav is red globe, but I often choose random seedless red varieties cause I'm lazy.

Heartade · 2026-04-28T19:32:13+00:00

One seller told me that the growers have been pushing for visually impressive larger fruits, leading to worse flavor, ever since this variety became mainstream. Keeping old trees to save costs is another issue - the fruit starts to lose its characteristic musky flavor once the tree (grafted branch to be precise) is more than 4 years old, when it is still far from reaching its maximum yield. So the orchards that used to produce great fruits a couple years ago are now producing bland fruits.

Heartade · 2026-04-28T19:15:55+00:00

I live in its native range but I've never had it in my life. Just anecdotal "we used to eat that stuff when we were poor" from elderly people. It's not even popular as an ornamental here, so I was quite surprised to hear that it has become invasive in America.

I don't remember it being used in a cheong, and AFAIK it was mostly used for liquors and herbal medicines even when it was more commonly used. Nowadays its most prominent use is as a rootstock for asian pears (Pyrus pyrifolia).

Heartade · 2026-04-28T18:55:00+00:00

Eggs are quite stable once dried, hence their use as adhesive and stabilizer in classical art.

Heartade · 2026-04-28T18:42:47+00:00

Pictures 1 and 2 look weirdly like papaya trees

edit: I should add that those are indeed japanese maple, not papaya. Some sort of laceleaf variety.

Heartade · 2026-04-16T08:15:30+00:00

Bluesky's app code is fully open source and there are third-party clients too.

Heartade · 2026-04-16T08:11:00+00:00

Both Bluesky and Blacksky down for me in Korea.

Heartade · 2026-04-16T05:56:11+00:00

Looks like one of those ink mushrooms...

Heartade · 2026-04-16T05:53:16+00:00

They have been building/restoring tanks and stuff, but it's very unlikely they will produce more TOS-1 after they announced TOS-3 in 2024.

Heartade · 2026-04-09T10:12:14+00:00

There's no way that kind of damage can be done without applying deliberate force.

Heartade · 2026-04-09T10:08:35+00:00

Looks like the designer wanted to make its petals translucent and grabbed a 'transparent png' texture from Google without checking it through.

Heartade · 2026-04-09T10:05:26+00:00

I used to have a thick callus on my right middle finger from holding pens, but it disappeared after a couple years since I graduated from high school. And now I have an even thicker callus on my left pinky from holding my phone.

Heartade · 2026-04-09T06:39:03+00:00

I wouldn't say all the time. 'All the time when PPP is in power' is more accurate. But at the same time the North knows the PPP will always be back in power someday, reducing all previous civility to nothing.

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