Snail food

[Mac Cool]

I have some black snails that live in my Daphnia tanks and I've been
feeding them iceburg lettuce which they seem to enjoy. But I'm wondering
what other foods they will eat? I've tried grasses and clovers, they don't
have any interest in those. I drop the occassional algae wafer in for the
Daphnia although the snails don't seem to pay much attention to the algae.
So what do they eat in the wild?

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Mac Cool

[Jaden]

Mac Cool wrote:
> I have some black snails that live in my Daphnia tanks and I've been
> feeding them iceburg lettuce which they seem to enjoy. But I'm wondering
> what other foods they will eat? I've tried grasses and clovers, they don't
> have any interest in those. I drop the occassional algae wafer in for the
> Daphnia although the snails don't seem to pay much attention to the algae.
> So what do they eat in the wild?
>

Lettuce is fine. My Apple snails love Spinach. I feed them celery and
carrot too. (I'm convinced that carrot does wonders for their shell colour).

Rob.

[Tynk]

On Mar 14, 4:23?am, Jaden > wrote:
> Mac Cool wrote:
> > I have some black snails that live in my Daphnia tanks and I've been
> > feeding them iceburg lettuce which they seem to enjoy. But I'm wondering
> > what other foods they will eat? I've tried grasses and clovers, they don't
> > have any interest in those. I drop the occassional algae wafer in for the
> > Daphnia although the snails don't seem to pay much attention to the algae.
> > So what do they eat in the wild?
>
> Lettuce is fine. My Apple snails love Spinach. I feed them celery and
> carrot too. (I'm convinced that carrot does wonders for their shell colour).
>
> Rob.

Interesting Rob.
Now are the carrots you use raw, blanched or comepletely cooked?

[swarvegorilla]

"Tynk" > wrote in message
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> On Mar 14, 4:23?am, Jaden > wrote:
>> Mac Cool wrote:
>> > I have some black snails that live in my Daphnia tanks and I've been
>> > feeding them iceburg lettuce which they seem to enjoy. But I'm
>> > wondering
>> > what other foods they will eat? I've tried grasses and clovers, they
>> > don't
>> > have any interest in those. I drop the occassional algae wafer in for
>> > the
>> > Daphnia although the snails don't seem to pay much attention to the
>> > algae.
>> > So what do they eat in the wild?
>>
>> Lettuce is fine. My Apple snails love Spinach. I feed them celery and
>> carrot too. (I'm convinced that carrot does wonders for their shell
>> colour).
>>
>> Rob.
>
> Interesting Rob.
> Now are the carrots you use raw, blanched or comepletely cooked?
>

I recon chook food pellets do the job.
other than that tho I just feed vege scraps
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[Jaden]

>>> Lettuce is fine. My Apple snails love Spinach. I feed them celery and
>>> carrot too. (I'm convinced that carrot does wonders for their shell
>>> colour).
>>>
>>> Rob.
>> Interesting Rob.
>> Now are the carrots you use raw, blanched or comepletely cooked?
>>
>
> I recon chook food pellets do the job.
> other than that tho I just feed vege scraps
> .
>
>

I put in carrot slices, half of them raw, and the other half raw, but
that have been frozen and thawed again. The Frozen and thawed ones are
softer and easier to eat (freezing expands the water content and
ruptures the cell walls), but the raw ones become easier to eat after
being in the tank a couple of days. This provides a constant supply of
food - they eat the frozen/thawed stuff first, then the raw ones.

I've never tried cooked or blanched, but it should be fine, you might
get more break-up though.

HTH,
Rob.

[swarvegorilla]

"Jaden" > wrote in message
...
>
>>>> Lettuce is fine. My Apple snails love Spinach. I feed them celery and
>>>> carrot too. (I'm convinced that carrot does wonders for their shell
>>>> colour).
>>>>
>>>> Rob.
>>> Interesting Rob.
>>> Now are the carrots you use raw, blanched or comepletely cooked?
>>>
>>
>> I recon chook food pellets do the job.
>> other than that tho I just feed vege scraps
>> .
>>
>>
>
> I put in carrot slices, half of them raw, and the other half raw, but
> that have been frozen and thawed again. The Frozen and thawed ones are
> softer and easier to eat (freezing expands the water content and
> ruptures the cell walls), but the raw ones become easier to eat after
> being in the tank a couple of days. This provides a constant supply of
> food - they eat the frozen/thawed stuff first, then the raw ones.
>
> I've never tried cooked or blanched, but it should be fine, you might
> get more break-up though.
>
> HTH,
> Rob.

If ya can be bothered.
Blend up a mix of veges
then dry them into 'wafers'
store in an airtight container.
Using squash, pumkin, peas etc it's easy to dehydrate snail food
not only a convienience
helps stop water clouding.
A handful of shellgrit never goes astray
or ya can mix pure calc carbonate powder into their food.
http://www.applesnail.net/
this website has great info on the care of applesnails
but much of the info is good for all types.

[Jaden]

> If ya can be bothered.
> Blend up a mix of veges
> then dry them into 'wafers'
> store in an airtight container.
> Using squash, pumkin, peas etc it's easy to dehydrate snail food
> not only a convienience
> helps stop water clouding.
> A handful of shellgrit never goes astray
> or ya can mix pure calc carbonate powder into their food.
> http://www.applesnail.net/
> this website has great info on the care of applesnails
> but much of the info is good for all types.

Good advice here. I've live in an area where the water supply scheme is
private. My water hardness is such that if I were to fill a glass of
water and leave it stand, there would be a white limescale rim on the
glass in about 90 minutes. An electric shower has a life expectancy of
two and half years in my area. Nozzles must be cleaned fortnightly.

For my aquarium water, I fill a bucket with hot water (to evaporate the
Cl) and once it has cooled, I suspend a muslin bag full of peat for a
day or two. Too high a KH and the airstone in my tank causes the pH to
rise to nearly 8. On the upside, My water is ideal for keeping snails,
and they thrive, with strong, vibrant shells.

I've always thought of getting a second tank - 60L or so, and having no
fish in it. A few apples of different colours, some Ramshorns and a few
othe exotic varieties. Maybe even a few shrimp. It would look nice
beside my 120L community. 6 feet of glass down my sideboard would really
finish my sitting room. I pretty sure my LFS would take my snails, in
exchange for supply of filters and other bit's n pieces at cost.

Anyone have an arrangement like this?


Rob.

[Mac Cool]

Jaden:

> Lettuce is fine. My Apple snails love Spinach. I feed them celery and
> carrot too. (I'm convinced that carrot does wonders for their shell
> colour).

I'm not sure if it matters but I think my snails are probably ramshorn.
Whatever they are they don't like carrots, spinach, clover, grass nor
yellow squash. I think I have spoiled them on iceberg lettuce; they won't
even eat romaine!

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Mac Cool