If you dream of a quiet, silent and kind pet, you should get a snail. A snail – ideal option for those people who have no enough time to walk a pet, to be engaged in care for its wool or to puzzle over drawing up the balanced diet. Besides, the snail is capable to present you a lot of positive emotions – at the same time it is extremely simple to look after snails.
To get the aquarium-mollyuskariyem occupied by snails a lot of money and efforts is not required. Snails eat practically all, do not take a lot of place, do not cause allergies, live long, and are ill very seldom. Moreover, with a snail it is not necessary to walk, this animal does not bite and is not scratched and if you plan to be going on vacation or a business trip, a snail it is fearlessly possible to leave one on a long period. However, if desired it can even be taken.
- The lodge for a snail can be made of any glass or plastic vessel which volume has to exceed five liters. It is not necessary to place a snail in a close vessel. From above the lodge for a snail should be closed a cover that your pet did not creep out outside. In a roof it is necessary to make small air vents which are necessary for free air circulation.
- As soil is suitable for a snail zemlesmes with a large amount of sand, however, it is possible to use coconut substrate or a usual moss. The layer of earth in a lodge has to be such that the snail in case of need could be dug completely in it. On a lodge bottom – under a layer of earth – it is necessary to put an expanded clay layer: this precautionary measure is necessary to avoid soil bogging.
- That the snail led active lifestyle, it is necessary to maintain the constant comfortable level of humidity and temperatures in a mollyuskariya. Comfortable temperature for snails fluctuates within twenty three – twenty seven degrees. The humidity of air in a mollyuskariya has to be steadily high therefore walls of a vessel in which there lives a snail several times a day need to be sprayed from a spray. Dry air it becomes frequent the reason that the snail loses the activity and falls into hibernation. Do not forget to put small in mollyuskariya. A flat pan with water in which the snail will bathe and drink. Water in a pan should be changed in process of pollution.
- If you want to learn to look after correctly snails, try to make a diet of a mollusk independently. Snails eat fruit, porridges, vegetables, some green plants, a fish forage and egg white. That the sink of a snail quickly grew and remained strong, mineral fertilizing – chalk, the crushed egg shell, calcium glycerophosphate tablets is necessary for it.