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My Leopard Slugs

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These are two slugs I acquired in March from a fellow student in my Invertebrate Zoology class. He found them under a log while surveying amphibians and asked me if I wanted to take care of them. I reason that keeping them as pets is better than releasing them into the wild, because the leopard slug (Limax maximus) is an invasive species from Europe. I've had pet slugs of various invasive species before, including two European black slugs, some small grey garden slugs, and another leopard slug that cannibalized all the other slugs.

These pictures were taken when the slugs were feeding on a peach and a cucumber slice, respectively. The two slugs are Delta (lower slug in top picture, upper slug in bottom picture) and Tuberculosis (upper slug in top picture, lower slug in bottom picture). The names are not meant to be a matching set, and there is no particular logic behind them, but somehow "tuberculosis" sounds fitting for a slug.

They haven't tried to cannibalize each other--yet.
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