I tried this with two strips and it didnt work on one snail at all. It seemed to stop a snail from going past it, but thats not good enough. I bought my one from Robert Dyas and the cashier said customers keep coming back to buy it. I may use slug pellets.
I ended up cutting my hand when I used this. Please everyone, wear gloves, even if its just dishwashing gloves. Copper tape is sharp. I also recommend to find a straight edge to work with on a pot to keep it straight.
I dig the disco-funk music, really cool. You should put the slugs out of their misery and sprinkle some salt on them and watch them groove to the beat.
Do a time lapse video as they are billions of videos to watch on RU-vid to watch, a video like this can convey info in 2 minutes,.... Will not be effective after copper tarnishes! Best to energize it with a 9 volt battery.
This did not work for me. I put 4 pieces of tape on a plate and to make a square making the snail have to cross the tape. Well, the snail made it to the foil tape and turned and went straight down the length of one side. I couldnt believe it ... Everyones talking about this working, didnt anyone test it ? I noticed in this video there was a lot of water on this. Mine was mildly wet. So I tried this again and the snail just was not phased. At this point and reading the below I dont know what to think. But I wouldnt trust my plants to this!
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You know what ACTUALLY works? Salt. The reason sometimes copper foil works is due to salt forming on the surface, when acidic muddy water overflows the pots and forms salts on the foil.
Salt goes away with rain as you can see it’s very wet in the video. This is clearly preventing the slug from crossing, and if it is salt on tapei doubt it because again, very wet. Great video great test. I’ll buy some copper tape here pretty soon.
...but I've seen them walk over a bunch of copper coins then straight over a thin copper wire so now I'm confused. Hmmm... maybe you just got lucky or maybe snails don't like shiny objects.
Well, if by "Copper Coins," you mean Pennies, those things only have a thin copper shell (because copper is more valuable than the penny itself nowadays). So maybe it's thick bands of 100% copper that steer them away?
You're probably right but I'm still not sure pure copper does much anyway as I recently bought 3 inch tall pieces and the snails still nibbled plant leaves when I checked in the morning (they are nighttime ninjas). I wish I had a camera setup that could record 12-14 hours overnight so I could see how they're doing it (maybe they dig under the copper barrier like moles?).
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