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Post by shaydeesnail on Jul 27, 2013 22:02:22 GMT
Hey everyone, Just noticed tonight while putting food in all of my 7 tanks, that all my snails seem to go mad for cos lettuce! Some of them (albopictas and fulica) were hollowing out a cucumber but when I put the lettuce in the other side of the tank they all instantly went over there to eat it! some of the babies born in the adult tank hitched a ride on their parents backs! all 50 baby fulica and 30 albopictas in the baby tanks have cometely covered the lettuce and are munching through it, and even my usually slow, uninterested Helix pomatia ditched the cucumber and made their way to the lettuce in minutes! It's really great to watch. Imagine how many snails you'd have in your garden if you grew it! Do your snails do the same with cos lettuce? or is there another treat they go crazy for? It's definitely worth trying them with it! (Im getting through about 4 in a week though )
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Post by Cashell on Jul 27, 2013 23:05:32 GMT
Hey everyone, Just noticed tonight while putting food in all of my 7 tanks, that all my snails seem to go mad for cos lettuce! Some of them (albopictas and fulica) were hollowing out a cucumber but when I put the lettuce in the other side of the tank they all instantly went over there to eat it! some of the babies born in the adult tank hitched a ride on their parents backs! all 50 baby fulica and 30 albopictas in the baby tanks have cometely covered the lettuce and are munching through it, and even my usually slow, uninterested Helix pomatia ditched the cucumber and made their way to the lettuce in minutes! It's really great to watch. Imagine how many snails you'd have in your garden if you grew it! Do your snails do the same with cos lettuce? or is there another treat they go crazy for? It's definitely worth trying them with it! (Im getting through about 4 in a week though ) I was confused about what cos lettuce was until I did a quick search and found that it's just another name for what I'm used to going by - romaine lettuce. Anyways, heck yes! I keep three different species of snails at the moment and one thing they'll never turn down is lettuce! Because of this I can't put other things in with the lettuce with the exception of carrots. If I do, they won't touch the other produce much until they've devastated the lettuce first, and then move on to what's left over.
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Post by shaydeesnail on Jul 27, 2013 23:37:27 GMT
Mine don't seem to like iceberg or little gem lettuce much for some reason, this is the only lettuce I can get them to eat!
You're right about them leaving any other food if there's romaine lettuce around, I'm thinking it may be a good option for weak and underweight snails.
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Post by malacophile on Jul 27, 2013 23:50:13 GMT
Mine love romaine and every other lettuce out there. However, they won't even touch garden lettuce that is bitter from bolting or summer heat. But they'll happily eat dandelion leaves (a close lettuce relative), which are also pretty bitter. Go figure.
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Post by Cashell on Jul 28, 2013 0:52:37 GMT
Mine love romaine and every other lettuce out there. However, they won't even touch garden lettuce that is bitter from bolting or summer heat. But they'll happily eat dandelion leaves (a close lettuce relative), which are also pretty bitter. Go figure. Sounds like they have a taste for the fine things only! I keep hearing about how snails eat decaying leaves in the wild, but yet when I try to offer them decaying leaves, the leaves only end up decaying even further from not being eaten...
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Post by muddydragon on Jul 28, 2013 8:12:40 GMT
Interestingly mine go crazy for lettuce grown in the garden (all types and colours) as well as homegrown courgette, they don't get that much of the other homegrown stuff (as we eat it all ). Of course they can't beat sweet potato though!
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Post by vickyholt13 on Jul 28, 2013 9:05:31 GMT
Mine love the sweet potatoes and romaine lettuce the lettuce is def the fav I've tried different varieties and all go down well but romaine defiantly is there fav. I've tried lots of food with my snails but still the things that get cleared up are lettuce sweet potato courgette and cucumber. They nibble at apple and sometimes pepper. They don't like butternut squash or strawberry or blueberry, grapes or tomatoes, I keep trying new things I give fresh every day and keep the new item going in fresh for a week to see if there are any takers .
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Post by muddydragon on Jul 28, 2013 9:33:03 GMT
I found my mariges (suts, ovums and candefacta) all LOVE tomato. The others (A. fulica, P. marginella, P. isabella and H. webbi) don't particularly care for it.
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Post by vickyholt13 on Jul 28, 2013 10:49:10 GMT
I found my mariges (suts, ovums and candefacta) all LOVE tomato. The others (A. fulica, P. marginella, P. isabella and H. webbi) don't particularly care for it. I will have to keep trying them then because since I got my two zell and selphie from you muddydragon I have not kept margies before now my family of margies has grown to 2 albino bodied, 1 normal, 2 silver and 2 leucistic and I love them they are wonderful snails think I'm addicted I love ther attitude there shell shape and colour and there gorgeous faces I'm sticking to margie suts for now though hehe other wise I will get carried away with other margie types. When you feed tomato do you slice and leave seeds , take seeds out quarter it half it and do they prefer a certain type? Sorry I no lots of question on tomatoes lol
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Post by muddydragon on Jul 29, 2013 18:19:51 GMT
tee hee yes you end up falling in love with margies you can't help it I use whatever tomatoes i have in at the time, i dont like tomatoes too ripe so when they get a bit squishy i cut them in half put them in the tank cut side up and the snails eat their way through them. Trouble is you end up getting tomato seedlings coming up in the tank when the snails poop out the seeds
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Post by vickyholt13 on Jul 29, 2013 20:19:05 GMT
tee hee yes you end up falling in love with margies you can't help it I use whatever tomatoes i have in at the time, i dont like tomatoes too ripe so when they get a bit squishy i cut them in half put them in the tank cut side up and the snails eat their way through them. Trouble is you end up getting tomato seedlings coming up in the tank when the snails poop out the seeds Thanks ill try it now just guns feed them tonight as there starting to wake up now I always feed between 9-10 pm so we will see how they do this eve
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Post by vallery on Jul 31, 2013 8:42:26 GMT
Hi shaydee Out of the 8 species of snails I have only one species 'Pleurodonte isabella' will even touch lettuce. The Pleurodonte isabella go mad for it. Gobble it right up. vallery
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