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03-14-2007

Posted by Mac Cool on March 14, 2007, 1:57 am

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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

Posted by Jaden on March 14, 2007, 5:23 am

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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.

Posted by Tynk on March 14, 2007, 12:38 pm

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> 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?

Posted by swarvegorilla on March 14, 2007, 8:21 pm

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>> 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
.

Posted by Jaden on March 15, 2007, 7:58 am

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>>> 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.

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