Calcium2

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Do snails get enough amount of calcium, when they just sit for long time on a chicken egg, cuttlefish or seashell?
I know that they can absorve calcium by the foot, but when they don´t eat that much, and are a long time stood on a piece of calcium, that´s fine for them?
Because not all of my snails eat a lot of calcium....

Thanks
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[Arno]

As long as they have a healthy shellgrowth,thats fine.One of my Margies gets almost all of its calcium by absorption rather than actually eating it and still has good new shell growth.

[sonicsnail]

I'm not sure, I was going to ask the same question a while ago. It would be interesting to know whether they get the same amount of calcium from doing this than eating the cuttlefish.

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snailwatcher said:

As long as they have a healthy shellgrowth,thats fine.One of my Margies gets almost all of its calcium by absorption rather than actually eating it and still has good new shell growth.

Thank you. ;D

[Val]

That's fascinating!!! I didn't know they could absorb it!!

Val

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