All snails are representatives of family of Gastropoda of mollusks. Generally vegetable food enters a diet of their food, however separate types of snails are considered as predators and eat, as a rule, a live forage.
Food of snails in the habitatFruits and leaves of plants enter the main food allowance of the majority of types of snails. Mollusks of food apples, cucumbers, onions greens, cabbage and grapes are among the most favourite. Quite often snails eat also juicy berries – raspberry or strawberry.
Snails – some of the most widespread mollusks which meet in the most various territories. The diet of their food can differ depending on features of the area. Residents of the southern countries, for example, give special preference to citrus fruits, pineapples and bananas. And eat not only fruit, but also foliage of plants. The snails living on seasonal dachas and kitchen gardens eat cultures which are mainly growing in their territory – corn, peas, carrots, tomatoes and cabbage.
The majority of domestic snails do not miss an opportunity to regale on newsprint. However such food can become pernicious for a mollusk because of special composition of paint for the press.
Food of snails predatorsMany water snails are predators, and the main diet of their food is made by small insects and crustaceans. In the absence of a live forage the mollusks can eat seaweed, leaves of water plants and some types of the products which got to water. For example, if water snail sees apple or a citrus peel, then by all means will decide to taste them.
Food of aquarian snailsAquarian snails spend the most part of time under water therefore the main diet of their food makes a special forage and seaweed. Such mollusks it is regularly necessary to feed up additional food – lettuce leaves, vegetables, fruit and fresh greens. Most of all snails love parsley and fennel.
Salt and flour products for a snail – deadly food. The mollusk cannot be fed with smoked, salty, spicy or sweet food at all.
Noticed that mollusks with armors – big individualists. Many domestic snails have own preferences in food. There are, for example, individuals who consider the best view of delicacy boiled eggs and cottage cheese. Special attention in a diet of domestic snails should be paid to sufficient contents in food of vitamins and calcium. It is impossible to overfeed mollusks at all. Snails are inclined to a fast set of weight because of what the armor for them becomes small. If the snail lives in a terrarium, then she should be provided with constant existence of drinking water and bathing. Crude and boiled meat of snails does not recommend to feed. Such food is badly acquired by mollusks.