🌴 What is a Tropical Slug?

🌴 What is a Tropical Slug?

Welcome! Here’s a quick guide to understand what we call “tropical slugs” on r/TropicalSlugs.

1. Simple definition

A tropical slug is a species that comes from regions that are:

• warm all year
• very humid
• without a real winter or low temperatures

They cannot survive long below 18–20°C (64–68°F).

2. Main families covered by this subreddit

✔️ Veronicellidae

 (the most common ones)

• Laevicaulis (ALTE, Ghana Black, etc.)
• Veronicella (sloanii, cubensis…)
• Diplosolenodes

These are the “flat tropical slugs” you often see in captivity.

✔️ Rathouisiidae

Carnivorous Asian slugs.

✔️ Onchidiidae

Mangrove slugs (very rare in captivity).

✔️ Some subtropical Asian species

Examples: Meghimatium bilineatum, M. pictum.

3. Not included in this category

Temperate European slugs such as:

• Limax maximus
• Arion spp.
• Deroceras spp.
• Lehmannia spp.

These species are not tropical and are not the main topic of this subreddit.

4. Why this distinction?

Tropical slugs have specific requirements:

• high humidity
• stable warm temperatures
• different diet
• different biology
• often faster reproduction

This subreddit exists to gather and share knowledge about these species.

🐌 If you’re new: post your slugs!

Photos, questions, identification requests — we’re happy to help.