Snails of an akhatin become all Bol popular in quality of pets and win more and more hearts. However even such unpretentious animal requires care and care, and contents akhatin has the features.
Having decided to buy as the pet a snail of an akhatin, the first what it is worth taking care of, this providing a snail with the spacious and equipped dwelling. It is necessary to make it in advance and though the snail also at first will feel not bad and in a plastic container, and in a three-liter large bottle, nevertheless it is better to get a terrarium in pet-shop. Choosing the dwelling it must be kept in mind that the intensity of growth of a snail also will depend on its sizes: the more capacity for keeping of an animal, the bigger size will be reached by an adult akhatina.
Very important point is the choice of soil for a snail of an akhatin. Zdest it is necessary to consider the fact that snails eat soil, passing it through itself and extracting nutrients from soil. Thus the soil acquired in flower shop and enriched with fertilizers can lead to painful death of an animal. Also categorically it is impossible to use as soil for a terratium sawdust, sand, stones as these fillers can seriously injure a snail. The most demanded as soil for snails among owners akhatin is the coconut substrate sometimes mixed with peat. It is also possible to use the usual moss collected in the deciduous forest. The moss needs to be cleaned from garbage, small insects, to fill in with cold water and to leave for 24 hours.
In a terratiuma it is necessary to provide good ventilation: the excess of fresh air leads to a soil peresushivaniye, a shortcoming - to the fact that in a terrarium it becomes too damp, and it is the favorable environment for development of bacteria and fungi, including, mold.
Also the snail of an akhatin needs the balanced food. Feature of these animals is that they will not begin to eat bad food, the cucumber stuffed with nitrates will remain, most likely, untouched. Food has to be various, high quality and always fresh. Akhatina love apples, cucumbers, carrots, pumpkin, sheet vegetables, milk, cottage cheese, kefir or yogurt. Porridge from oatmeal on water or milk, of course, not hot is useful. In general, all products which you offer the akhatena have to be room temperature, not hot and not cold.
There is a small list of products which are strictly forbidden in a diet of snails:
- First of all it is salt and all food which is added some salt artificially. Salt will lead to death of an animal.
- It is impossible to treat the pet with food from the table, various smoked products and marinades, fried, stewed or boiled dishes.
- Under a ban there is also citrus.
It is important to watch that the snail received enough calcium, especially during active growth. The sink of a snail grows approximately by 0.5 cm a week so it is important to take care of providing the pet with this important macrocell. It is rather simple to make it: the shell of the crude carefully washed up eggs is cleaned from an internal film, is dried and frays in powder by means of the ordinary coffee grinder. It is also possible to put in a terrarium a piece of white chalk or the mineral sepia (armor of a cuttlefish) acquired in pet-shop for birds.
The drinking bowl can be not put, it is enough to sprinkle once a day terrarium walls cold boiled water from a spray - this procedure and will give to drink a snail who will pinch water drops from glass walls, and will support optimum level of humidity in the dwelling of an akhatina.
Snails of an akhatin demand care: it is possible to take an animal for the narrowest part of a sink as wide during growth soft and it it is possible to damage easily. It is impossible to pull for a sink at all the animal who stuck to a subject surface as it is possible hard, it is even deadly, to injure a snail.
How to understand that it is necessary for my akhatena? Surprisingly, but it is very simple to understand needs of such unusual silent and slow animal. The snail was closed in the sink - a lack of humidity of a terrarium and if, on the contrary, the akhatina hangs on a dwelling wall - a moisture surplus. Gets on a cover of a terrarium and hangs on it - most likely, the animal endures a stress. When to the akhatena it is terrible or painful, she makes the loud svistyashche-hissing sound similar to shout. Such sounds never should be disregarded. If the snail receives insufficient amount of protein or is simply hungry, she can not painfully, but is sensitive bite. The mouth of a snail called raduly is equipped with the sharp teeth in number of about 25,000 pieces having a terochka appearance.
Advantage of snails of an akhatin. By the way, this special structure of a mouth akhatin found broad application in modern cosmetology: milk is applied on the face skin cleaned from cosmetics and pollution. A snail, catching a smell it, works raduly, at the same time grinding skin, removing thus its top layer together with skin shortcomings in the form of small scars, pigmentary and age spots, freckles. At the same time slime as a part of which there is a collagen has the healing effect on rash of various etiology, small scratches, cracks on skin and also the rejuvenating action. After the first procedures, small wrinkles are smoothed, and subsequently there are less noticeable also deeper wrinkles.
It is considered that snails of an akhatina have short memory and are not too clever. However these lovely animals get used to the owner soon, learn his hands and do not hide in attempts to stroke a snail. At approach to them unfamiliar hands of an akhatina try to hide at once in the sink.