Ok smarty-Pantses......how do snails know the difference between watering and rain?

@farmerman,

Interesting.

I don't think they have access to the weather channel. I don't.

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@dlowan,

Is there fluoride in the water you spray out of the hose?

Joe(even I can smell that)Nation

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You got snails? Wow.

I suspect it's some kind of atmospheric thing. Animals have all kinds of senses we don't have.

Snails. Wow again.

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From Snail World-dot-com.

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Other types of land snails though live underground so you will only see them out there when it is raining and they have to come to the surface so that they don’t drown. They only live less than one inch below the surface though so it is easy enough for them to come out when the rain starts. They are able to easily move as they need to though to get through the changing weather conditions. Even though they are very slow animals by nature, they are very instinctive when it comes to their habitat and survival skills.

So i suspect that the snails don't react to you watering your plants because there is not enough water to threaten them with drowning.

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@Setanta,

But they don't live underground...they live deep in the plants......under leaves and such. They seal themselves off with dried slime, I suppose it is, so they don't dehydrate.

May well be the fluoride and the humidity.

They get more water when I water them than they do from rain.

But last night they were FRISKY! Prancing they were. hot to trot. Seemed to find the storm exciting. They weren't feeding...they were gathering at the tops of plants looking frenzied. I was surprised fights weren't breaking out.

Boida...why are you surprised I have snail? Did you want a few million as pets?

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@Ragman,

Ragman wrote:

Thirdly, the mineral or hardness vs softeness is different. Rainwater might have more calcium and trace minerals than tap water.

I would think rain water would be basically pure (basically distilled) H2O with no minerals at all, except maybe some contaminants picked up from the atmosphere.

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@DrewDad,

our tap water is so heavy and full of minerals that we don't drink it. even the cats won't touch it...

rainwater is very soft.

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There is obviously something the snails are considering that you aren't.

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@IRFRANK,

Exactly. So, what is it?

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@dlowan,

I figured it was the difference between soft and hard water, as we discussed above....

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@DrewDad,

Sorry for the confusion. I wrote he opposite of what I meant to put there. Rainwater is soft in most places ...whereas tap water is often quite hard (minerals like calcium and trace metals).

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@Ragman,

What this site needs is a good water treatment specialist.

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@dlowan,

dlowan wrote:

Boida...why are you surprised I have snail? Did you want a few million as pets?

Why am I not surprised you have snails. When it rains here in the city, all I see is puddles.

If you wanna send me a snail pet, make sure it's one of the frisky ones. Can't imagine what a frisky snail is like.

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@dlowan,

I wouldn't know. Ask a snail. Or someone who tests such things

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@dlowan,

dlowan wrote:

Exactly. So, what is it?

Humidity in the atmosphere.

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@roger,

ahahah. that was choice.

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Atmospheric pressure?

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@DrewDad,

DrewDad wrote:

I figured it was the difference between soft and hard water, as we discussed above....

But Irfrank sounded as though he KNEW. He sounded smug.

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@IRFRANK,

IRFRANK wrote:

I wouldn't know. Ask a snail. Or someone who tests such things

This is a question and answer site. I'm asking.

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@rosborne979,

rosborne979 wrote:

dlowan wrote:

Exactly. So, what is it?

Humidity in the atmosphere.

But when I water them their atmosphere becomes very humid...wet, in fact.

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Ok smarty-Pantses......how do snails know the difference between watering and rain?

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