Slugs safe???

i have been looking around this site now for about 3 weeks and someone said that slugs can be a used as food source for my axies i was wondering if the slugs that i often get in my bathroom would be safe for them to eat they seem to come up out of the drains ?????

what is slugs ? spiders ? ..

I read that slugs were okay somewhere, but wait til someone more experienced answers

I gave Elsa a spider once, she ate it straight up - dunno if they are allowed though...

Maja, I see that your english vocabulary is not so great (that's okay!). I suggest www.dictionary.com for definitions of english words you don't understand. I think this would be of great help to you. You could also copy and paste the definitions found there into a English-Danish translator.

As for the slugs, a lot of people use wild-caught slugs. I'm not sure if I'd use ones that come out of the drains though.

Nikola

I use slugs a lot, but importantly I only use ones from a safe source. Slugs coming out of a drain would carry traces of any chemicals that had passed through there. The same goes with wild caught ones, mine all come from a friends garden who does not use any form of chemical in their garden. You also need to examine the slugs carefully to see if they have the blister like swellings on the saddle. These are infected with worms and should not be used. I would also not use any showing signs that one had been there and ruptured.

If you go out on a wet/rainy night and collect any slugs you find. You can store them in a suitable plastic container with lettuce leaves or dandelions etc. I have kept wild caught slugs up to 2 weeks this way. You can also dust the food you give them with light concentrations of calcium and vitamins if you wish. You do need to do it sparingly though as the slugs will leave the food if too much dust is about.

I hope this is helpful.

Jeff

yuck!

Worms is bad enuff for me thx ... my axies can do without slugs i'm sure

I would not use slugs that came out of a bathroom drain. There are soaps and other chemicals there that could carry over to the axies.

Slugs in bathroom drains? I never had slugs in my drain lol. Must be in areas where there is a lot of rain fall? I have seen banana slugs in Washington the state. They were really pretty, but gross. I wouldn't feed slugs to my axolotls either, yuck.

funny enough i live in very dry part of australia and i too am surprised to find slugs these slugs that come out of our drain in the bathroom as we dont get them in any part of the garden but i think to be safe i wont feed them to the axies as i would forever wonder if they would poison them with the soap and stuff that goes down the drain thanks anyhow