Cookie Settings. Learn why people trust wikiHow. Download Article Explore this Article methods. Related Articles. Article Summary. Method 1. Select a wide fruit, vegetables, seeds, and grains that are safe for snails. Land snails enjoy eating a wide variety of foods, mainly fresh produce. In a pinch, land snails also like to eat tortoise food that has been soaked in water; However, the bulk of your snail's diet should come for fruits and veggies, as well some seeds and cooked grains.
Do not feed your land snail onion,salty foods, citrus foods, or onion- these repel the snail and it will lose its diet.
Veggies: cucumber, mushroom, lettuce, broccoli, green beans, peas, sprouts, sweet corn, turnip, watercress. Cooked grains: oats. It will be easier for your snail to eat hard vegetables if you boil them beforehand.
Just make sure they're not hot when you give them to your snail. Chop or shred produce into pieces smaller than a dime.
Use a vegetable shredder or kitchen knife to chop all produce before you feed it to your snails. Snails are sensitive to chemicals and pesticides, so be sure you use organic produce, and to wash it well before feeding it to your snail. Start by providing 0. There is not a hard and fast rule about how much food a land snail should eat, and you'll have to figure out how much food your snail needs over time.
If your snail is consuming all of the food you're providing, you can offer more. Remove any food that isn't consumed within 24 hours to prevent mold or anything that might harm your snail s. Avoid processed foods, and foods that are hard for snails to digest.
Don't give your snail snack foods, or foods that contain sugar or salt. Snails also have trouble digesting rice, millet, pasta, crackers, and bread because they cause bloating. Most definitely never feed your snail anything with salt. It is the most dangerous thing for them because it burns their body of moisture and it will die.
Fill a water dish with spring water. You do not need to provide snails with water to drink, but you do need to make sure their environment is humid enough. Place a shallow dish filled with spring water for your snail to bathe in. Replace the water every days. If you don't have access to filtered water, you can leave tap water out in the sun for 48 hours to remove chemicals. Spray your snails with spring water every days.
You can also help your snail to stay hydrated by misting them with water. Fill a spray bottle with spring or filtered water, and mist your snail and their habitat. Keep a calcium source in the tank at all times. Snails need a lot of calcium in order to keep their shells healthy.
A great option is a cuttlebone because you can simply break off pieces and place them in the tank for your snail to nibble on. Other calcium sources should be crushed and added to your snail's food. Method 2. House freshwater snails with fish. Freshwater snails are omnivores, and they typically subsist off of the algae and food debris in a fish aquarium. Include aquatic plants for your snails to graze on as well. Check with your vet or a clerk at your local pet store to find out which types of fish live best alongside your species of freshwater snails.
Provide algae disks. If you don't have fish in the same aquarium as your snails, you can purchase small algae discs. Follow the instructions on the packaging, and provide the right number of disks for the number of snails in your tank. Snail eats different varieties of food ranging from tubers to leaves and vegetable fruits, supplements and so on, virtually everything eaten by humans except the salted ones, most species of snail seem to prefer cucumber, lettuce, peppers and sweetcorn.
There are some foods that are not advisable to feed your snails example are onions, processed food such as pasta. Snail feeds on leaves a lot because they are herbivorous the following leaves can be very useful in feeding your snail, leaves of pawpaw, banana, sweet potato, cassava , cocoyam they also feed on vegetable such as okra, lettuce, pumpkin, cabbage, water leave, spinach, garden eggs and all green vegetable that can be consumed by human are what the eat.
Even its possible for you to have a plantation with your snail farming business , this will ease the stress of looking for food all around. The following fruits can also help in the growth of your snails examples are banana, pawpaw, mango, eggplan t, pear, oil palm, fig, tomato, nectarine melon, peach, plums, avocado, cucumber and all edible fruits. Fruits are usually rich in minerals and vitamins, but low in protein. They also eat tuber like cocoyam, cassava, yam, sweet potato and plantain.
When the food reaches this structure that looks like a sac, the teeth do not cut or grind it like human teeth would. Instead of being chewed, the radula scrapes the food and breaks it, before it passes through the esophagus to continue the digestion process.
These tiny teeth suffer much wear and tear as time passes. Therefore, they are continually replaced by others. Not all species have the same number of teeth. Some have rows with a few, but in others the number reaches hundreds.
Snails are often said to be very noisy eaters. It is the radula tearing and scraping the food. A Massive number of snails in a garden or even worse in farms with crops can quickly become a serious problem. They will consume enough to ruin the harvest. Certain terrestrial species, such as the Giant African Snail Achatina fulica , are a headache for farmers and owners of crops since they have no scruples about consuming economically valuable plant species such as cacao, cucumber, papaya, Bean, squash, cauliflower and some cereals, just to name a few.
This species, considered in many countries an invasive animal, generates important economic losses. You may have never seen a terrestrial snail eat, but its appetite is huge. In fact, in many places, these eating habits mean a real problem for humans. If you use herbicides or pesticides on your plants, you may be causing the death of many snails without even realizing it. Some with gardens or farms strive to trap the snails rather than killing them.
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