Hi all, I don’t know if this is the right space for my questions but here goes…

I’m in the UK.. and I have ocd which involves excessive cleaning to avoid contamination. This has stemmed from a slug that got into my front door 3 weeks ago and I actually went over it with my Hoover but cleaning that and the floor.

Since then I am convinced everything in my house is contaminated in some way and I am constantly cleaning things and my hands in order to avoid becoming unwell or getting a parasite or whatever.

I heard about a story in Australia where a guy ate one as a dare then because paralysed and died. My question is, how much of a risk are they exactly to human health in general?

I just found this guy when I was cleaning out my milk snails and doing an egg transfer. He must have hitched a ride on some produce. As he's pretty tiny, I've put him in the nursery with the eggs for now (with plenty of nibbles).

I'm pretty excited about my new and unexpected friends. First the snail eggs and now this!

I'm concerned about my pet slug. He's been looking deflated for a week or so. He is round and fat looking when he is asleep, but once he comes out he looks somewhat deflated. He's been eating normally and still doubling in size each week. Is this normal for an arion slug to look like this. He seems happy and healthy, he just looks weird.

I just saw this guy chilling in my isopodes tank. I have no idea how it got there but any ideas to care for it? Also should I get it from under the net???

Hi all! So I took some of this subreddits advice and incubated my eggs.. After just a few weeks they've started to hatch! Google tells me that they'll increase in size rapidly. I don't have a good picture of these baby slugs so I won't be able to provide photos of the little guys. My idea was to get them a different tank until they are ready to stay with their parent. I believe that, after better research, I've got a grey garden slug (Deroceras reticulatum; I like the name "grey garden" because it's the same name as one of my favorite games) and a bunch of it's babies. I don't know how soon to move in the babies with the parent. Do any of you have any advice on where and when to move them? They're currently in a spare clean jar that I have. Also, what should I be feeding them? Thanks!

Hi!

I'm a pretty new slug owner, I found one in my celery and adopted a month or so ago. I have been checking for eggs and never found any, but what do you know, I give my slug some tomato yesterday and now I've counted 10 babies so far eating this tomato...

What do I do now?? I was not expecting to mother a colony of slugs, not sure if I should be excited or scared haha

I found this slug under my desk in my basement. Usually they're dead when I find them but this one was clinging to life. Dry to the touch but eyes moving so I grabbed a paper towel to put the baby on and cap full of water from my bottle and doused it in hopes of restoring moisture to the skin without drowning. Success was quickly found then panic. What do I feed it? How do I keep it alive until I can release it because IT'S DECEMBER and 41° with snow in the United States of America's state Maryland right now. I'm looking for any and all advice! Currently kept in small Tupperware with soaked cat kibble that it's munching away at. I've seen them cover it at night when the strays I feed leave nibbles behind so hopefully it's safe ❤️

Thanks Slug Life People!