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Post by parriskl on May 17, 2020 23:23:24 GMT
Hi again! I posted here about a week ago concerning my inactive snail (https://petsnails.proboards.com/thread/18030/deep-retraction). I think I've almost solved the problem - I'm pretty sure that Pebble is carnivorous, considering he is almost exclusively interested in meat and fish flakes. Once I started giving him some raw hamburger, over the next few days he became a lot more active and stopped sleeping completely inside his shell all the time. Yay!
However, now I'm not sure what to do about his diet. For the first month I had him I didn't give him any actual meat (just regular snail foods) and he always ate them, but now he pretty much refuses to eat any fruit or vegetable unless I sprinkle a tiny amount of fish flakes on it first.
How much protein should I be giving him a week?? What are some other good sources of it? Should he still be eating vegetables too?
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annatrash
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Watching my decollates munch on some hamburger meat :)
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Post by annatrash on May 22, 2020 5:48:25 GMT
I'm not too sure about the protien, but you should probably give them some veggies lol. I have some predatory snails and I feed them a mostly vegetable diet of whatever I find in the fridge usually- lettuce, spinach, tomato, unsweetened applesauce, cucumber, cooked yam, etc. Nothing acidic. For protien I try to give them a boiled egg white at least twice a week. I've heard that it's okay to keep them on a purely vegetable diet though
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Post by orchid on May 22, 2020 23:05:57 GMT
I'm not too sure about the protien, but you should probably give them some veggies lol. I have some predatory snails and I feed them a mostly vegetable diet of whatever I find in the fridge usually- lettuce, spinach, tomato, unsweetened applesauce, cucumber, cooked yam, etc. Nothing acidic. For protien I try to give them a boiled egg white at least twice a week. I've heard that it's okay to keep them on a purely vegetable diet though predatory snails should definitely not have a purely vegetable diet, or even any snail for that matter. they should always get protein |
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annatrash
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Watching my decollates munch on some hamburger meat :)
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Post by annatrash on May 23, 2020 4:09:54 GMT
I'm not too sure about the protien, but you should probably give them some veggies lol. I have some predatory snails and I feed them a mostly vegetable diet of whatever I find in the fridge usually- lettuce, spinach, tomato, unsweetened applesauce, cucumber, cooked yam, etc. Nothing acidic. For protien I try to give them a boiled egg white at least twice a week. I've heard that it's okay to keep them on a purely vegetable diet though predatory snails should definitely not have a purely vegetable diet, or even any snail for that matter. they should always get protein Oh okay! Thank you for that info, I didn't know |
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Post by parriskl on May 23, 2020 14:35:31 GMT
I'm not too sure about the protien, but you should probably give them some veggies lol. I have some predatory snails and I feed them a mostly vegetable diet of whatever I find in the fridge usually- lettuce, spinach, tomato, unsweetened applesauce, cucumber, cooked yam, etc. Nothing acidic. For protien I try to give them a boiled egg white at least twice a week. I've heard that it's okay to keep them on a purely vegetable diet though predatory snails should definitely not have a purely vegetable diet, or even any snail for that matter. they should always get protein How often do you give them protein? |
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Post by orchid on May 24, 2020 6:26:23 GMT
predatory snails should definitely not have a purely vegetable diet, or even any snail for that matter. they should always get protein How often do you give them protein? basically the amount recommended is 20% a week. for my veggie diet snails i feed 40% protein fish pellets once every two weeks. for predatory snails, i usually feed them raw beef twice a week, but it depends on how you are giving them protein |
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annatrash
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Watching my decollates munch on some hamburger meat :)
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Post by annatrash on Jun 20, 2020 17:38:51 GMT
How often do you give them protein? basically the amount recommended is 20% a week. for my veggie diet snails i feed 40% protein fish pellets once every two weeks. for predatory snails, i usually feed them raw beef twice a week, but it depends on how you are giving them protein I know this is an old thread, but I recently started gave my Rumina Decollata raw hamburger meat last night (no seasoning of course) and it seems like they're avoiding it? I put it on top of some sweet potato so not to get it dirty, and they ate all around it but I don't think they even touched the meat. I gave a pinch of it to my Southern Flatcoils and they all ate some of it so I'm wondering what that's about :/ I also gave them a dead cricket and I'm pretty sure it's partially eaten. Maybe the meat was pre-salted or something and I didn't know, but the snails could smell it? |
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