Picky snails?

[lizzie97444]

Whenever I try to put my snails on orange and grapes they tend to bubble up a little.
Is it tooo acidy for them or is that they're picky?

My snails LOVE Lollo Biondo leaves. They finish one in one night!
PIGS haha

Thank You.

[Rachel]

oranges may be to acidic for them, and many snails won't eat grapes, although some will.

[coyote]

I agree that oranges may be too acidic. Grapes may be too sweet. I've noticed that none of my snails have liked really sweet fruit.

[Rachel]

same, mine hate grapes, kiwi, stuff like that. Most of mine won't even touch strawberry, although I suspect that again the acidity levels are to do with this

[vicki]

I think it is partly that snails are picky because as some of you have said, yours wont touch strawberries and grapes or sweet fruit in general but all of my snails LOVE sweeter fruit...... strawberries, raspberries, watermelon, grapes, blackberries....... ALL THE EXPENSIVE STUFF! ha! and its their fave! (obviously cucumber comes 100% 1st though)

Its strange, ive always gave mine a varried diet but they know exactly what they like and wont eat a lot of normal things like butternut squash, carrot, apple, pear!

Im thinking of trying my snails on cherries next!

[lizzie97444]

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My snails too! strawberries and watermelon.
but NU UH eww grapes (for them )
Yeah they seem to LOVE cucumber, wonda y.
teehee.

[goonius]

ralph wont eat anything other than cuccumber lettuce porridge and lots of cuttle lol!

[coyote]

I have yet to get any of my snails to go for apple or pear (although they really like pumpkin).

[lizzie97444]

My snails still seem to not like bananas.
They crawl on it and neva eat them...

[Rachel]

some of my snails had a bad reaction to banana a few months ago so I don't give it anymore

[lizzie97444]

Does anyone else have problems with bananas?
Why wouldn't some snails like them

[snailysnail]

my snails don't seem to like banana either, they just don't touch it. it's not the most practical food to give to snails sometimes as it goes mouldy so quickly, not just going brown, i mean like fluff and green stuff! wasn't there a thread here before that said something about grapes not being good for snails? mine have never touched grapes either.

[lucyjames]

Mine arent too keen on banana.... or grapes.... or apple... and they dont touch carrot or broccolli....

But they love their cuke and sweet potato!!!

My tanks are full of neon-orange super-poo!!!!! ;D

[bloodhawk]

my rodz loved butter nut squash but my jade fulicas didnt really like it much at all
non will touch carrot they love lettice and cucumber and dont really touch apple
and they all seem to like water cress mt old fulicas liked raspberrys when they were babies but when they grew bigger they didnt seem to like them

[crossless]

Taking about oranges taste them first if they taste sweet they r ok to put in tank, but not for daily use 'cos so acid. Some times of year oranges r really so bad that humans can't even eat them. I think all the fruit should be tasted before given 'cos there is diffenrent seasons for different fruits so some fruits can be too sour to snails taste. I think snails love sweet tasting fruits most.

Lemon, grapefruit and lime is too acid to give snails, so is onions & rhubarb. And avocado is dangerous to all animals and it's very fatty and cause heart attacks (for animals, humans can eat it). These 6five foods what I just said should not to be given to snails.

[lizzie97444]

what? avocado?
Hasn't ppl on this forum given snails avocadoes?? Isn't it ok??
I dunno my first time hearing that
My snails luv lettuce now, I think that's nnumber one for them now!
lol

[crossless]

Too much fat isn't good for snails so I'm not giving them avocado, in our country we really make sure that everything is snail friendly that's y we banned so of foods and don't give them to snails.

[coyote]

The snails that eat avocado seem to be in the minority. Mine have never liked it. I don't know how unhealthy it might be for snails, but it's best not to take chances and offer it only occasionally and in small amounts.

[lizzie97444]

ohh, I see
jst in curiosity, can baby snails eat anything??
cucumber and lettuce seems to be ok..
But I jst don't want my Lucky to starve...

[Dusk]

They can usually eat the same things as the adults

[Rachel]

only in slightly smaller quantities of course
(unless there are more than 20, in which case they turn rabid and eat everything in sight)

[lizzie97444]

Hahaha lol. when does speckled garden snail babies get their spots?
Is it possible for them not to have spots? Lol i dunno
I feel soooo dumb but do snails have taste buds? Or is it their sense of smelling to know if its their fave food or not.. Lol
That suddenly popped into my head

[Bumblebee]

well i think it very well could be possible for snails to not have any shell pattern, depending on the genetic, since there already is so many mutations like lack of eyestalk or too many eyestalks etc

And im sure snails got some taste buds, since some veggies like lettuce dont really smell that much but yet it seem to be a big favorite of snails
The other day mom had found some wild strawberries when she walked the dog that she brought home for my snails to try, so i fed it to them but both of my retics, as soon as their lips came in contact with the berries, did some weird face expression, it was almost as if they wrinkled their nose so i took it they didnt like those berries xD So they sure got to have some taste

[zakalwe]

Jul 13, 2009 7:03:55 GMT Bumblebee said:

And im sure snails got some taste buds, since some veggies like lettuce dont really smell that much but yet it seem to be a big favorite of snails
The other day mom had found some wild strawberries when she walked the dog that she brought home for my snails to try, so i fed it to them but both of my retics, as soon as their lips came in contact with the berries, did some weird face expression, it was almost as if they wrinkled their nose so i took it they didnt like those berries xD So they sure got to have some taste

Snails do indeed have something very similar to taste buds. Their bottom stalks and the area around their lips are LOADED with what are called chemoreceptors, which are basically a slightly modified version olfactory cells. They use them to taste things around them.

[coyote]

Individual snails seem to have personal taste preferences, same as people.


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