Is Copper Tape effective against snails and slugs (let's do an experiment) 

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You and me both. I'm just about to buy copper mesh hence visiting here. Good to know it will keep the buggers at bay. Great video. Watched a different one, but a guy placed a snail inside a square of tape. Someone pointed out to him that it's about a choice with snails. So when it didn't have a choice to escape outwards, it braved the copper. It's when they can avoid and have better places to venture they will avoid. 😅 who would have thought we'll be doing snail science! 🐌

Ikr 😂 I was focused 😅

What function does the duct tape serve?

@joewoodchuck3824 put the duct tape on first, then put the copper tape over the duct tape, and it won't peel off. Copper tape isn't sticky enough for wooden planters

Won't Vaseline melt in the sun?

That is a great tip! Thank you!

Thanks, here I am trying to figure out how to achieve this...and then you! I was thinking of buying electrical wire and stripping it.

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Did you get round to this??? Love to know the results

I noticed this earlier. I have some cactus / succulent compost that has a lot of sand in it and snails and slugs were standing up looking for how to avoid it!

Great idea!

Good idea!

Whahaha, Crisco. In the Netherlands you can buy this in the adults toy shop. Not for baking....... ;-)

Violence is not the answer. It's the question is the answer is always yes! 220V

@@explained6146 😂 love your humour omg

You certainly have a point on the 9V. I used an spare accu of my Bosch drill machine. When testing (made a little test circuit) it on 3 snails that feasted on my sunflower prouts one bubbled like crazy after 3 tries to pass the barier then got Idle (the house snail). One got stuck on the wire and got fried leaving a blue mark of the copper reaction on the snail (smaller naked snail, RIP). One also got zapped couple of times and than leaved crawling over the isolated parts of the wire. (bigger naked snail). To be fair, i didn't have the guts to lay my tongue on this drill machine accu powered circuit, so I am gonna use just a 1,2V recharable battery on the bigger project. For now I reccomend a distance of 8 mm from the wires and put them in a way that the snails can fall of of it.

Stainless steel should be most reliable, 1mm in diameter is fine to handle.

If you want to electrify it, you would need two strips which are insulated to each other, so you can connect the positive to one strip and the negative to the other, if you want to do this you better run multiple copper wires with a gap adjacent to each other, then connect the positiv and negativ pole alternately to the wires. If the snail closes the electric circuit by touching the two opposing poles a current will flow through the snail and probably k#ill it, if the current is large enough. I wouldn't do this at mains voltage since it's a safety concern, I would also not go over 50 volts AC or 120 volts DC since above those voltages it exists a major risk of serious electrocution which can k#ill people.

@@Universal_Craftsman Thank you! I think I'll just stick to plain tape, no need to take risks like that just for snails!

@@kele1264 No problem. What I saw, a 9 volt battery might suffice.

@@Universal_Craftsman Thanks!

you need to go into your garden every night and pick off the snails. then you should be good

Two things: there is a product I just ordered from Amazon called Sluggo. Highly rated. Read about it there so you can make your decision about it. Also, I bought a blacklight flashlight from Amazon last year. If you go out to your garden at night and shine the blacklight on the stems of the plants, slugs and worms fluoresce - you can see them and pick them off before they cause too much damage. It works!!! I have to wear gloves because touching the worms and slugs is so gross! But it is effective. A tomato hornworm can decimate an entire tomato plant (and other plants) in one day. It is labor intensive, but worth it to save my vegetable plants. That is MY food, not theirs!

@@kele1264 I agree!! Those little bastards! It's a good thing that my neighbor is Korean and doesn't understand my mumblings.

@@alice30045 heeheehee Yes indeed! Careful, they may understand more than you think, and may believe you are cursing them! You go get those hornworms and slugs! (ick, so ick, but necessary).

@@kele1264 I do the mumbling under my breath, no chance that she'll hear me, she's a nice old lady and loves my flowers.

snails and slugs mostly come out in the night when not all the birds are around. also in my garden I rarely see bigger birds, only really small ones

they mostly come out at night...mostly

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you could! but you'd have to have the tape to not be a full circle (broken circle) and then electrically connect on battery terminal to one side of the tape loop and the other terminal to the other end of the tape loop

@@aleestuuh is that little battery enough for 14m circumference? my love is telling me that only would hold for 3 days and then i have to exchange it.

@@AlitaAlita2406 had one going for about a month, 2x 2m long loop (4m tape total) slight charge drop noticable. Probably still enough to deter - we had a huge slug problem but the fence still holds to this day!

and the slug is lookin like its checking itself out in the mirrored surface of the tape 😳😅