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Post by lee2211 on Aug 17, 2010 11:53:09 GMT
I shouldn't think so, as long as the tank remains normal temperature. Just make sure they don't melt and flood the tank out.
CroSSleSS puts her spray bottle into the fridge and then the water is cold when she sprays. It's said to drop the temperature of the terrarium about 2*C
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MLO
Achatina achatina
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Post by MLO on Aug 19, 2010 15:16:17 GMT
Thanks. The ice did seem to help...the last few days I came home I didn't find any snails cooling their rear halves in the water dish.
FYI, I'm working on getting them to eat pepper now...
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Post by lee2211 on Aug 20, 2010 20:46:31 GMT
Mine love pepper ;D
But it does make the tank smell for aaagggeeees!
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MLO
Achatina achatina
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Post by MLO on Aug 25, 2010 23:01:52 GMT
But it's a good smell...at least better than other food, I think. FYI, at least one of the snails is eating pepper...I've found bright red poop on the side of the enclosure. . That's one thing I like about snails, you can definitely tell what they've eaten and what they've not. I'm going to re-try them on milk softened kibble mixed with algae flakes. Unfortunately it molds very very easily
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cherryblossom
Archachatina marginata
Bubba & Bertha's mum
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Post by cherryblossom on Sept 18, 2010 13:49:14 GMT
this is a great thread. Currently my 2 are not eating much unless its melon or cucumber. I have put mushroom on their feeding tray just now and sweet potato and will hopefully introduce them to eating more different foods.
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Post by crossless on Sept 21, 2010 20:42:14 GMT
Good way to get snails eat it grate everything new with old food and when they are trying to eat the old food they get new food in their mouths too. I'm soon getting new snail my first a. achatina. I try to give to new snails my current snails favourite foods and see how we get nice new feeding routine going on.
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Post by prowljazz on Aug 18, 2011 18:20:05 GMT
Strange Question.... When doing Boiled Veg, do You boil till It's Just Soft, Medium or Very Soft? Thanks
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Post by ultrapoi on Aug 18, 2011 20:07:46 GMT
my lovely girlies will eat most foods... yet wont eat the same food type twice in a row! if they have mango one day, they will shun a fresh supply of it the next day.. today is a lettuce day, tomorrow will thus have to be something different (fridays are usually blueberries and tomatoes as i snaffle my workmates pack lunch leftovers....)
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coyote
Archachatina papyracea
Cochleas ego amo
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Post by coyote on Aug 19, 2011 21:37:43 GMT
Strange Question.... When doing Boiled Veg, do You boil till It's Just Soft, Medium or Very Soft? Thanks I offer raw veg to my snails, because it's what they would get in the wild, and it has more nutrients. Occasionally I will offer a little bit of canned pumpkin, which they love, but they also love thinly-sliced raw pumpkin and other winter squashes too. By the time a veg has been cooked to very soft, probably all of the heat-sensitive nutrients have been destroyed, so I would offer only very slightly-cooked veg to my snails (probably not even soft yet). Raw is really best for them, even if it's something we ourselves couldn't eat raw.
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Post by crossless on Aug 20, 2011 15:01:28 GMT
I think boiled food is just temporary solution if snails don't eat. Boiled food smells stronger so you get them easier to eat. If snails eat normally and like to try new things then I would avoid boiling. If need to boil good way is to add something wtih boiled food like something you know they like raw..
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latebloomer
Achatina immaculata
The Snail Botherer
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Post by latebloomer on Sept 7, 2011 23:03:48 GMT
I have been following this thread with great interest as my new snails were picky too. They seem to go for defrosted green beans but not fresh, must be softer, tonight I tried Basil and they were in it within a short time where normally they don't emerge for food until very late evening.
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Post by pinkunicorn on Nov 18, 2011 10:57:00 GMT
Nothing but cucumber peel in this household, lol! They're very careful to eat only the greenest bits and little else. I guess I need to try withholding the cukes for a while and see if that makes the other foods disappear.
Btw, microwaving foods in a steamer basket/roll with a little water is the cooking method that destroys the least amount of nutrients.
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coyote
Archachatina papyracea
Cochleas ego amo
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Post by coyote on Nov 18, 2011 21:18:29 GMT
How interesting. My snails are the opposite, ignoring the peel or rind of just about everything I give them, whether it's cucumber or sweet potato or apple.
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iloncia
Achatina achatina
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Post by iloncia on Nov 18, 2011 21:26:04 GMT
My snails are fussy eaters as well. They like anything, that is new to them and then after a few days loose interest. So every day i am trying to give them something new. However they never touch cucumber, courgette and they rarely snack on lettuce. There is only one treat, they are never bored of and that is sweet potato.
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Post by PennyFarthing on Apr 1, 2012 10:38:05 GMT
Penny scared me by going off her food for a couple of days. She'd slide around the tank, testing each item I offered, then went up inside her shell as if in a sulk. She must have been hungry, or why would she bother testing the foods? I thought she was ill, but it turns out she needed/wanted goldfish flakes. She ate a few of those and now she's eating everything else as well.
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Post by ness on Apr 1, 2012 12:02:59 GMT
Penny scared me by going off her food for a couple of days. She'd slide around the tank, testing each item I offered, then went up inside her shell as if in a sulk. She must have been hungry, or why would she bother testing the foods? I thought she was ill, but it turns out she needed/wanted goldfish flakes. She ate a few of those and now she's eating everything else as well. Well sometimes they lose their appitites for a few days. It can be quite common and is generally nothing to worry about. However if they start retracting often and appear to shrink, or go off their food regularly then it's not a good sign. You did the right thing and gave her something nutritious
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ilovegals7
Achatina achatina
mahahaha (evil laugh)
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Post by ilovegals7 on Jul 5, 2012 19:36:33 GMT
mine hate cucumber and wont touch it :]
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Baku
Achatina fulica
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Post by Baku on Sept 14, 2012 9:46:38 GMT
Hi! Is it Ok if I only feed my A. fulica carrot, potato, celeriac, and occassionally bread/hamsterfood or fishflakes? It seems he can't get a bite out of anything 'un-smashed' though he does go and taste almost everything :I And is it bad if he doesn't eat any lettuce, as greens would probably be a pretty important part of a wild snail's diet..?
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Post by pinkunicorn on Sept 14, 2012 11:41:52 GMT
Hi there! Your snails would benefit of sweet potato added to their diet. I'm not sure of the bread, though. Fish flakes are a good addition, definitely. Just give everything dry well-soaked in clean water to the snails so that their digestive tracks don't get clogged, it can kill them.
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Post by graemepryce on Sept 14, 2012 13:48:45 GMT
I'd be careful with how starchy peanut butter is, I wouldn't feed that to my snails and I have read somewhere that if you give them eggshells you should bake them first or they are unable to break down the cellulose in the shell lining inside the egg. Inability to digest cellulose is why snails usually don't eat evergreen rubbery plants in the wild like Ivy and privet.
Mixed salad bags are good for them and they get reduced to cheaper prices a lot in supermarkets. Just give it all a rinse first in case of any pesticides.
Try warming up a little bit of weak beer and pouring it onto a few dog biscuits. Mine absolutely can't refuse that and head straight for it. Mine are mostly african or barbados snails though, not Aspersa.
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Post by pinkunicorn on Sept 15, 2012 11:03:15 GMT
Oh snails are actually capable of digesting cellulose unlike humans. They have the enzyme that breaks it down, they had two digestive enzymes more than humans but I don't recall now what the other was for.. All green leafy stuff is basically pure cellulose with minuscule amounts of other sugars and protein, and snails would unlikely be able to survive on their natural leafy meals if they could not digest it. And snails of course have a strange appetite for paper, which is nothing but cellulose.
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ilovegals7
Achatina achatina
mahahaha (evil laugh)
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Post by ilovegals7 on Sept 16, 2012 7:47:12 GMT
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Baku
Achatina fulica
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Post by Baku on Sept 20, 2012 9:22:36 GMT
Hi there! Your snails would benefit of sweet potato added to their diet. I'm not sure of the bread, though. Fish flakes are a good addition, definitely. Just give everything dry well-soaked in clean water to the snails so that their digestive tracks don't get clogged, it can kill them. Thanks! I tried sweet potato and he actually ate it I was pretty doubtful at first because it didn't smell bad at all x) After eating that though he went straight to sleep for a couple of days, but suppose he just overate or something :')
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Post by ultrapoi on Mar 9, 2013 9:15:18 GMT
im having trouble getting anyone to eat at the moment, the only thing they will munch on is iceberg (which i know isnt good for them). i gave them pineapple, tomato, mushroom, cucumber and boiled broccoli. the only things they will touch are cuttlefish and iceberg.
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Post by vallery on Mar 9, 2013 9:25:20 GMT
Have you tried some steamed sweet potato or steamed carrots. Once my snails would only eat cucumber nothing else so I tried that and they did eat it. Another Idea I got from shadysnail is thinly sliced carrot using a potato peeler so it is really thinly sliced and they went for that as well.
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