What to feed snails

For normal growth, development and reproduction tender mollusks need proper nutrition and a comfortable habitat. The main diet of Achatina consists of vegetables, fruits and greens, but for a variety and good nutrition they need meat supplements and healthy mineral food. A detailed answer to the question of how to feed Achatina snails at home will be reflected in a visual list. It consists of four sections:

• Vegetables for snails - pumpkin, zucchini, broccoli, cabbage leaves, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, bell peppers, celery, beans,
• Fruits - apples, pears, avocados, bananas, strawberries, strawberries, cherries, ripe mangoes, plums, sweet grapes, watermelon, cantaloupe,
• Greens - lettuce, dill, parsley, celery, spinach, clover, dandelion, plantain,
• Additives - oatmeal, cereals, mushrooms, dairy products (without sugar, salt and various additives), minced meat, meat and bone meal, ground nuts (except peanuts), baby food.

Fresh vegetables, fruits and greens provide the gastropods with essential vitamins and trace elements. For the absorption of calcium, for normal growth and reproduction, pets need vitamins A, E, and D. They can be obtained from plant foods, which must be provided with abundant mussels every day.

Vegetables, fruits and mushrooms should be served to pets in large pieces and on a “plate” of lettuce leaves. Fresh aromas immediately attract Achatines. They are active and due to the numerous teeth they easily cope with products of different hardness and consistency. For young stock, it is advisable to rub grated carrots and other vegetables, but not chop the fruit into a liquid puree; babies can choke or suffocate in the soft mass.

For snails do not need to cook anything! The heat kills the beneficial vitamins in fresh plants. Even cereals, minced meat, oatmeal are served in the form of milled to powder, but without a destructive heat treatment.

Prohibited foods in the diet Ahatin

The following list will clearly demonstrate how it is impossible to feed the Achatyn snails. These products are dangerous to the health and life of pets, and most importantly, they can lead to their death or to painful prolonged illness. Forbidden products include:

• Salt is the white death of a mollusk! A few grains of salt can kill 2-3 babies and an adult.
• Food from the table of people! Gastropods nothing can be fried, spicy, pickled, sweet or smoked. It is forbidden to give a sample even as an experiment.
• Pasta and any flour products will lead to death. The snail will not be able to digest such heavy food.
• Eggs are not recommended for clams, even when boiled due to salmonellosis. However, individual breeders spoil their pets with this valuable protein product.
• Under the ban, bitterish burning and sour vegetables - onion, garlic, radish, radish, sorrel, wormwood, tomato tomato.
• Citrus fruits are not recommended due to the increased acid content.
• Potatoes are undesirable to give even boiled!
• The semolina swells up strongly and absorbs water, it is difficult to digest with weak tender mollusks.

From the two lists above we can conclude with what can and what can not feed the Achatyn snails and how to make a full-fledged daily diet. But it will not be complete without mineral supplements, which will provide delicate gastropods with vital microelements.

Calcium - the most important element for the life and reproduction of Achatina

In the period of growth and development, as well as for the birth of a full and healthy offspring, gastropods need calcium. In the daily diet of African Akhatin must include mineral supplements and calcium-containing foods. It is served as powders or as an extra powder for fresh vegetables and fruits.

As permanent mineral supplements it is recommended to use:

• Egg shells, fodder chalk, cuttlefish shell, shell rock,
• Healthy grains - rice, millet, oats, buckwheat, bran,
• Fish food "Daphnia" or other quality food.

Read more about the use of chalk and sepia in the diet of Achatina snails.

Solid components must be ground in a coffee grinder, and then mixed in an airtight container with a lid. Shells from raw eggs to grinding must be doused with boiling water and dried thoroughly. Serve healthy flour at every feeding in the form of an appetizing sprinkle on slices of apples, pears, cucumbers and other fresh plants.

Important! It is necessary to track the powder to be perfect, without pieces of hard shell or large feed pellets. For the tender viscera of mollusks, any sharp, hard particles are extremely life-threatening.

Feeding snails in winter

In the period of ripening of fresh vegetables and fruits with pet feeding there will be no problems. They are voracious and even eat up vegetable food waste. But in winter, the diversity of fresh plants is sharply reduced and the owners have to wrestle with what to feed African snails Achatina, lovers of succulent vegetables and fruits.

Experienced breeders recommend:

• Lean on cereal milling - buckwheat, rice, pearl barley into flour.
• Pumpkin, carrot, cucumber, zucchini, squash, turnip, bananas and apples all year round among affordable and affordable products.
• If it is possible, add pure cottage cheese to the diet without harmful additives 1-2 times a week,
• It is recommended in the winter to grow greens and lettuce in pots on their own to the delight of their beloved pets.
• For variety, you can give chicken meat, baby vegetable puree and porridge.

Achatina - real gourmets! For their diet is important natural freshness of plants and a bright vitamin variety. But snails are predatory and voracious, so their food can be varied with dried plankton from fish feed. Additionally, it is desirable to add rotten algae and aquarium plants, they will become a real feast for gastropods among lean vegetarian days.

Grape snails

Grape snails are not less popular than Achatina. So what do you need to feed grape snails at home? Grape snails, like Achatines, love greens and vegetables. In addition, they are very fond of fruits and berries. They really like

• Strawberry,
• bananas
• pineapples,
• grapes
• as well as watermelons and melons.

However, for proper development, snails need greenery. Nettle, celery, dill, parsley and leaves of various plants are perfect. Also, snails will not give up mushrooms. Best of all they are suitable mushrooms and cherries.

In general, almost all land snails have the same ration, however, it can be expanded through mixtures of seeds, cereals and ground grain.

When to give food

There is an erroneous opinion that snails can be given food only once a week. It is not true. The animal, of course, will survive, but it will grow badly. It is better to give food in small portions in the evening of each day. Why in the evening, but not in the morning or in the afternoon? In the evening, the snail is most active, so this time of day is the best for feeding.

How to feed a snail

Cooked food can not be put on the ground, for this you need a plate or stand. Before bedtime, remove the uneaten food so that it does not deteriorate overnight. In the place where the snail lives, you need a compartment for water. The fluid in it must be no more than a centimeter, otherwise the snail will sink. When cooking, you need to make gruel out of solid foods, and fruit and some soft vegetables can simply be cut into small slices. Food should be at room temperature, as well as fresh and washed.

What can not feed the snail

First of all, you can not give anything salty and fat. Otherwise you will poison your pet. You should also exclude from the diet of the snail: spicy food and food with spices, as well as sweets. In no case should snails be given citrus fruits, because they contain acid, which destroys their shell.

We hope that we have fully answered the question of how to feed snails at home, and if you still have questions, feel free to ask them in the comments to the article. Remember, the main thing is for snails to be comfortable in your house, and then they will live and delight your eyes for a very long time. Proper nutrition is the key to all this.

How many times to feed

How often to feed a snail, this is a question that every beginning snail catcher faces. And the answer is quite simple, how many times feeding a snail will depend primarily on the age of the mollusk.

Juveniles need daily nutrition. In the evening, you need to finely chop the vegetables and fruits or grate, sprinkle with calcium dressing and add a small amount of protein foods.

Adults are also fed once a day, but it is allowed to give food once a day. Most often, feeding snails should be shown in the evening when the mollusks are awake. If the snail is healthy, but does not eat well, you should reduce the amount of food offered, but the calcium should always be freely available to the pet.

Also very important point is how to properly feed the snails. For feeding, you must use a flat bowl or other stand (you can use a tray from under a flower pot or a lid with plastic buckets). You can use several feeders for each type of food separately. In extreme cases, you can lay down food on a leaf of lettuce, but don't put food right on the ground.

Preparation and cleaning of residues

It should be a rule such moments:

• Every day you have to offer fresh food to your pet.
• All vegetables, fruits and herbs must be washed beforehand and the skin must be cut off.
• for adults, cut vegetables and fruits into large slices or rub them on a coarse grater,
• small, sick and weak snails these products need to be grated or mashed.

Give snails as much food as they eat per night. And in the morning the next day, remove the uneaten remains, so that they do not mix with the ground and do not start to rot, because in a humid environment, food spoils more quickly. Therefore, in order not to face such troubles as nematodes, flies, mold and unpleasant smell, this rule should be followed. The terrarium will be clean and your pet will be healthy.

If you are a happy owner of small snails, then before throwing lettuce leaves from the terrarium, consider them well, so as not to accidentally throw away some crumb.

Winter diet

Plant foods need to be selected according to the season, so the summer diet for gastropods will be more varied than winter. When asked what the snails are fed in winter, you can confidently respond with vegetables and fruits that are well preserved all winter or frozen foods in the summer.

It is not recommended to feed snails with non-seasonal vegetables, purchased in the supermarket, because most often they are treated with special substances that prevent the spoilage of these products. Such substances are poisonous to mollusks. If you, at your own risk, decide to feed your pets with products purchased at the supermarket, then thoroughly rinse all the vegetables and fruits, and also cut off the skin in which harmful substances accumulate after processing.

Portion of food

To find out which snail portion is needed, watch your pet. If he ate everything offered by you, then you need to put more food. If you are throwing out more than half of the half-eaten food, then it is too much for the clam - reduce the portion.

Do not forget that calcium must be constantly in the ulitkarii. To do this, put on a bowl of crushed sepia, egg shells or another source of calcium and place in a terrarium. You can also put a whole sepia - the snails gnaw it with pleasure.

Eggshell, sepia or fodder chalk are also sprinkled on vegetables, fruits and greens before serving to mollusks.

New products in the diet

Feeding snails should be a variety of products, try to alternate food. After all, these animals are accustomed to certain products and may refuse others.

If the snail refuses any new product, then do not give up and offer it again the next day. After some time, the pet will taste the new food and realize that it is tasty.

Sometimes snails give up one variety of apples, while others eat with pleasure. Therefore, try different options to form a mollusk diet.

Addictive

Some novice breeders complain that the snail eats only one product. This happens if the owner feeds his pet any particular type of product, which contains substances useful to her. For example, if you feed a snail with cucumber daily, while not giving any more food, the snail adapts and no longer wants to prevent other foods from being eaten.

But it should be remembered, the diet for the snail should be varied, despite the fact that like a pet. If the product continues to give, then addictive occurs.

What's the big deal, you ask? Well, let him eat. This is not very good for the health of the snail, because it will not eat fully. And you will have to look for this product to feed your pet.

To save the snail from such a habit, you need some time not to offer her this product, but to include in the diet other vegetables and fruits, alternating them. Do not worry if your pet refuses food for a couple of days, the snail will not starve itself.

Snails are most accustomed to the following products: cucumber, banana and zucchini.

As you can see, feeding snails includes many nuances that need to be aware of. Feed your pets correctly, include only approved products in the snail ration, a list of which you can find in the next article, and pets will make you happy with a healthy look and good appetite!

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How to care for snails?

Land gastropod mollusk from the pulmonary snail subclass. Widely distributed in countries with a tropical climate, highly invasive species, is a pest of agricultural plants, especially sugarcane. Currently, further expansion of the Achatina area has been stopped due to strict quarantine measures. Started snail invasion in the United States was prevented. In Europe, including Russia, where Achatina’s survival in nature is impossible, they are often kept as domestic animals.

The content of the snail Achatina (Terrarium)

Terrarium for Ahatin can be made from a simple aquarium. The minimum size is 10 liters per snail. The larger the aquarium, the larger your snail will grow. A terrarium should certainly have a cover, because snails can crawl out of it. It is advisable to organize small holes in the lid for better gas exchange. In extreme cases, you can simply lift the lid to form a small gap. Lay the litter at the bottom of the aquarium. The litter can be the "Begonia" soil, or ideally the coconut substrate 5-7 cm of the mound. You can build a small tub with fresh water, Achatina love to swim. The main thing is that the depth of the bath does not allow the snail to choke. In general, Achatinaes crawl well under water, but if they accidentally fall into the bath from above, a small snail can drown from fright. You also need to make sure that the bath does not turn over if the snail starts to dig in the ground next to it, otherwise the water will spread, which is not good.

The temperature and humidity of the air, necessary for Akhatinam, approximately coincide with those in a regular city apartment. Soil moisture is determined empirically. If the snails are all the time sitting on the walls of the terrarium, it means that there is too much water. If they prefer to clog (the evidence hides in the sink and closes the lid), on the contrary, it is too dry. Under normal ground moisture, snails crawl over its surface at night, and often burrow into it during the day. To maintain humidity, it is enough to spray the soil and the walls of the terrarium from the spray gun twice a day.

To wake up a blocked snail, you can pour water on its mouth and gently remove the cap or simply place it in a terrarium with normal humidity. It is recommended to wash the terrarium at least once a week. An exception is a terrarium with an egg laying that has to be cleaned without water in order not to change the humidity and not damage the laying.

It is better to keep the little ones out without soil, laying cabbage leaves or lettuce leaves, thereby increasing the chance for the snail to find food and to facilitate the care of the terrarium.

Feeding Achatina snail

It is better to feed as you eat and dry food and remove leftovers. Achatina eat vegetables, fruits and herbs, but in nature do not refuse meat. Usually they are fed in captivity with cabbage, carrots and cucumbers, but it is preferable to give more diverse food. First of all, this is necessary in order to be able to switch to another available type of food at any time. Известно, что у улиток есть определенные пристрастия к пище, в том числе многие предпочитают огурцы и салат другим продуктам и, если их с детства кормить только огурцами, часто отказываются есть что-то кроме них, что может вызвать определенные неудобства. Крупным улиткам можно давать целые огрызки, они на удивление быстро перерабатывают пищевые отходы.Soft products should be given for a short time, otherwise they flow and smear on the ground, causing pollution. Small products are generally not recommended to give soft foods. There was a case when the whites wholly buried in a banana and suffocated there. Very small newborn snails are better to give greens, grated carrots on a grater, and a few days later a salad and an apple.

Fruits: Apple, apricots, pineapple, avocado, bananas, pear, strawberries, strawberries, cherries, mangoes, papayas, plums, a bunch of grapes, figs, watermelon, cantaloupe.

Vegetables: pumpkin, rutabaga, zucchini, broccoli, champignons, lettuce, cucumber, potatoes (boiled), carrot varieties of carrots, red, red pepper, celery, spinach, tomato, cabbage leaves.

Beans, peas (boiled or fresh), oatmeal.

Other: mushrooms, plants of meadows / trees, nettle, daisy flowers, elder flowers, clover, dandelion, plantain, yarrow, sprouted oats, alfalfa, color of fruit trees (apple, apricot, peach.), bread (softened), milk (dried or natural ), dairy / lactic acid products (without sugar, salt, spices), minced meat (minced meat, raw or boiled meat), egg (cooked), mixed feed, meat and bone meal, peanuts (minced), baby food, vegetables and meat, gammarus.

It is important that the plants are not torn off within the city, plants or enterprises, wastewater, landfills. After you bring home, rinse thoroughly in warm water!

The effect of calcium on shellfish

Calcium is necessary for building snails. Calcium is a very common chemical element.

The lack of calcium in the snail leads to the curvature and deformation of the shell. The snail shell from calcium deficiency becomes softer, it is not protected from the environment. Since all the internal organs are attached to the walls of the shell, any damage to it can lead to malfunctioning of organs or death. The mollusk, which is not receiving calcium from food, as a rule, lags behind in development: the growth of the shell is disturbed or stops altogether, a failure occurs in puberty.

In order to prove how important calcium is to snails, I conducted an experiment.

Two groups of snails of the same age and type were taken and placed in the same conditions, but feeding was carried out in different ways: some with food with added calcium, others with its complete absence.

Soon the snails of the second group stopped growing. From this it follows that calcium is indispensable for mollusks.

Captive snails get calcium from sepia, eggshell, fodder chalk, shell rock, gammarus, etc. Calcecashes are made for a more effective result. Kaltsekasha is a nutritional mixture made on the basis of various cereals with the addition of various sources of calcium, such a product is served both in dry form and cooked.

Breeding Achatina snail (Breeding Akhatinov)

Achatina snails are hermaphroditic, that is, each individual has both male and female genitals. In the absence of a partner, self-fertilization is possible, but it is quite rare.

The snail can store sperm for two years after mating, using it to fertilize ripening eggs. The number of eggs in a clutch is about 200 (in some cases up to 500), the snail can make 5-6 clutches annually. The size of one egg is 4.5-5.5 mm, in shape it resembles a chicken. The development of eggs is possible at a temperature of 22 ° C and lasts from several hours to 17 days.

The main diet snail Achatina

Absolutely all Achatina almost omnivorous. The process of feeding such a giant mollusk is carried out by means of a “tongue”, which is seated with peculiar horn thorns. Under natural conditions, the Achatines feed on decaying vegetation and carrion, mushrooms and algae, lichens and citrus bark.

The diet of representatives of the Ashatina family includes more than five hundred of all kinds of vegetation, including vegetable and leguminous crops, pumpkin and melon, lettuce plants, potatoes and onions, sunflower and eucalyptus.

It is interesting! In America, such snails are considered to be a real national disaster, due to the very rapid reproduction, and the ability to devour virtually everything that gets in the way, including tree bark, any crops, as well as plaster on buildings, therefore, people who breed Achatina in the United States face real prison sentence.

As the observations show, the food preferences of the giant mollusk quite noticeably change with age, so the young individuals prefer living plants, and the older Achatina with great pleasure eat almost any rotting vegetation. In order to build a strong shell, even the youngest Akhatins willingly scraped off particles from calcareous rocks and shells of dead mollusks, as well as eating crushed egg shells.

What can feed the snail

The basis of a full-fledged diet for homemade Achatina snails can be represented by lettuce leaves, various natural greens, and also shoots of cereals and vegetable crops, including beetroot or carrot tops. Too many land giant clams love fresh Chinese cabbage..

Important! The owner of such an original pet should be ready for some capriciousness of the Achatina snail in the matter of nutrition, so the owner will most likely have to adapt to the “original” taste preferences of his shellfish.

Also, it is very important to include cucumbers and tomatoes, zucchini and pumpkin, carrots and spinach, young corn, cabbage and peas in the main ration of an unusual pet. Achatines react positively to some fruits and berries, which can be represented by apples and pears, watermelons and melons, bananas and mangoes, apricots and plums, avocados and pineapples, as well as cherries, strawberries and raspberries.

The following food products are extremely useful for land mollusks:

• dill and parsley,
• salad and spinach,
• nettle and dandelion,
• clover and plantain,
• chamomile and burdock,
• corn grits and barley,
• pearl barley and rolled oats,
• rice and buckwheat
• lentils and flaxseeds,
• sunflower and sesame,

Soft vegetables, fruits and berries, it is desirable to cut into not too large slices. Too hard foods should be fed to a giant mollusk in a shabby form, chopped beforehand on a usual grater or in a kitchen blender.

Important! Experts and experienced breeders advise supplementing the Achatina diet with leaves of birch and oak, raspberries and apples, linden leaves, as well as freshly squeezed pumpkin, carrot or peach-pear juices.

It is important to remember that any food given to a pet must be fresh and must be at room temperature that is comfortable for the snail.

What is forbidden to give

The category of products absolutely prohibited for feeding the giant akhetin mollusk includes:

• spicy and pickled, as well as smoked products,
• any sweets, including sugar,
• salt in any form
• lemons and oranges containing natural acid, which contributes to the destruction of the clam shell,
• gooseberry and currant, quince and viburnum, cranberries and thorns, and also plum,
• vegetables of the family Solanaceae, including unripe tomatoes, eggplants and "green" potatoes,
• pork and beef, fatty lamb,
• cream and sour cream,
• flour and any flour products, especially macaroni, capable of causing an intestinal obstruction in a giant snail and the subsequent death of the pet.

It should be noted that also completely banned products, represented by sorrel and wormwood, ambrosia and ginger, radishes and radishes, onions and garlic, sharp varieties of pepper.

Important! It is impossible to use calcium gluconate and calcium D-3 as feed or supplement of the diet, as well as to feed the snail with dog or cat food, fruit and berry candied fruits.

Snail food mode

It is advisable to feed the domestic snail in the evening, since such giant mollusks belong to the category of night creatures, showing increased activity in the evening and at night. Adults need to be fed once a day, and the youngest snails need unhindered and round-the-clock access to food..

It is strictly forbidden to put food for the snail directly on the lining substrate. Food should be given on a special bowl or a tray of small size. Many land snail owners prefer to use ordinary lettuce as a “plate”.

If in summer the diet of the snail is very rich due to the large amount of greenery, fruits and vegetables, then with the onset of winter, the intake of vitamins into the body of the land mollusk significantly decreases. In winter, you can feed the Achatina snails with carrots and cabbage, beets and pumpkin.

Important! It is impossible to use calcium gluconate and calcium D-3 as feed or supplement of the diet, as well as to feed the snail with dog or cat food, fruit and berry candied fruits.

As well as bananas and apples, which are crushed and added to a not too fat cottage cheese. Veterinary stores also sell special feed flakes for vegetarian fish, which are very well suited for land mollusks.

Some owners of Achatina snails in the winter period on the windowsill grown different green cultures in pots. Among other things, at present, the range of products in stores in the summer and in winter has practically no significant differences.

Which makes it easy to provide the mollusk with the proper feed ration.. Vegetables, as well as greens, fruits and berries must be thoroughly washed beforehand, removing nitrates and pesticides, which are a deadly threat to an exotic pet.

Vitamins and Minerals

Protein nutrition of animal and vegetable origin should be compulsory in the diet of a giant mollusk, but the second option is more preferable. Strongly protein mixtures are given to Akhatins not more than a couple of times a week, and high-nutritional vegetable mixtures based on foliage, a small amount of cereals and lichens are necessarily included in the daily diet of the snail. Animal protein can be given to Akhatin about three times a week.

Qualitative required dressings can be presented:

• shells cuttlefish,
• fodder chalk,
• shell rock
• eggshell
• daphnia and gammarus.

When choosing a source of proteins of animal origin, it is desirable to give preference to chicken or turkey meat, shrimps and squid, mussels, as well as dietary rabbit.

Achatina snail need for water

Adult Achatina snails not only actively drink clean water, but also need water procedures. A bath for a giant land mollusk can be represented by any wide and flat vessel of shallow depth. In such a bath, your pet will be able to regularly refresh itself, since the secretion of a sufficient amount of protective mucus directly depends on the amount of incoming moisture. Of course, a slight lack of moisture does not cause the death of a pet, but in this case the clam falls into a characteristic hibernation.

But for young Akhatin, which has a small size, too deep water bodies can be a serious danger. Along with many terrestrial animals, snails of this kind breathe with lungs, and therefore, when immersed in water, the death of the young occurs quickly.

It is interesting! Gastropods need not only the availability of drinking water, but also sufficiently high levels of air humidity, which can be created by spraying the walls of the home of a cochlea from an atomizer.

In order to provide the youngsters with enough moisture to drink, it is recommended to put in the terrarium a not too big piece of food grade plastic, on which clean drinking water is regularly sprayed onto the body with a household sprinkler. Among other things, a significant amount of water young snails are able to receive when eating greens, juicy vegetables and fruits.

What to feed the little snails

The basis of the diet of a small snail - finely grated fruits and vegetables. Also, newborn clams can be given greens and chopped carrots. Since the age of two weeks, the food of the snails is supplemented with lettuce leaves sprinkled with crushed calcium and apples. As a good additive, it is desirable to use dried gammarus, which is sold in zoological shops and is dried freshwater crustaceans.

At the age of one month, small snails are able to eat traditional “lumpy” food in the form of sliced ​​vegetables and fruits. At the same time, it is necessary to first thoroughly clean all hard peel, leaving only the juicy flesh.

Leaves and roots of Jerusalem artichoke are well eaten by young land snails, but the leaves must first be scalded with boiling water and finely chopped, and the tuber must be chopped on a grater and supplemented with powdered eggshell. In late autumn and winter periods, the grown land mollusk can be pampered occasionally with oatmeal or wheat bran.

Basic rules for feeding small land snails:

• pet food must be available to your pet around the clock,
• absolutely can not lay out food directly on the lining of the soil,
• any food given to the cochlea must be at room temperature
• fruits and berries, as well as greens and vegetables, should be well washed in running water,
• replacement of food with a fresh portion of food should be done every few hours, and food extracted from the terrarium should be utilized without fail,
• it is strictly forbidden to mix food with substrate elements in a terrarium,
• the growing up pet must be provided with unhindered access to water,
• Any products prohibited for feeding adult land mollusks should not be fed to snail babies, including “human” foods, fried, sour or sweet foods, smoked foods and spicy foods,
• Mortal danger for growing up and adult exotic pets is ordinary salt, eggs and pasta.

For the full growth and development of the mollusk it is necessary to supplement its diet with sepia, which consists of a sufficient amount of aragonite.. Sepia is the inner skeleton of the cuttlefish, represented by hard and soft shells. Cuttlefish bone can be ground to a powder and added to Achatina food.

Important! Remember that natural sepia has a white color, so the colored bones of cuttlefish containing harmful dyes can not be used to feed the mollusks. In addition, pre-sepia need to soak for several hours, which will remove all salts from its composition.

It should be noted that each giant snail has its own, very individual taste tastes. Some foods are eaten willingly, while others are not eaten absolutely. You need to be extremely careful with food experimentation, as the result of an unhealthy diet can be the death of an exotic pet.

However, in order for the domestic land clam to grow up healthy and beautiful, the daily diet must be diverse, fully satisfying the nutritional needs of such a pet.