I'm just curious what others have experienced as the most desired food for your snails. I have read the sticky on the snail recipes but I am curious if someone has noticed a better result from one recipe rather than another.
Whats your 'bread and butter' when feeding your snails???
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Hmmm...What ingredients does it have? There's one package by Tetra that smells so bad, the fish ignored it completely.:grinyes:
I stand corrected, the brand is O.S.I.
Benefits of O.S.I. Shrimp Pellets:
Shrimp Meal, Wheat Flour, Fish Meal, Soy Protein Concentrate, Corn Gluten Meal, Torula Dried Yeast, Rice Bran, Spirulina, Fish Oil, Lecithin, Vitamin A Palmitate, D-Activated Animal Sterol, DL-Tocopherol Acetate, Choline Chloride, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate, Inositol, Niacinamide, Calcium d-Pantothenate.
Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein minimum 38%
Crude Fat minimum 2%
Crude Fiber maximum 8%
Moisture maximum 10%
that was from an online source, I wasn't about to type all that. Though the ingredients list from the site and what is on the container I have are different. The site left off a few things unless they changed the ingredients since i bought it.
Benefits of O.S.I. Shrimp Pellets:
- Strong Natural Attractants
- Easy to Digest
- Softens Easily in Water
- Never Clouds Aquarium Water
- Contains Stabilized Vitamin C
Shrimp Meal, Wheat Flour, Fish Meal, Soy Protein Concentrate, Corn Gluten Meal, Torula Dried Yeast, Rice Bran, Spirulina, Fish Oil, Lecithin, Vitamin A Palmitate, D-Activated Animal Sterol, DL-Tocopherol Acetate, Choline Chloride, L-Ascorbyl-2-Polyphosphate, Inositol, Niacinamide, Calcium d-Pantothenate.
Guaranteed Analysis:
Crude Protein minimum 38%
Crude Fat minimum 2%
Crude Fiber maximum 8%
Moisture maximum 10%
that was from an online source, I wasn't about to type all that. Though the ingredients list from the site and what is on the container I have are different. The site left off a few things unless they changed the ingredients since i bought it.
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Strange that they won't like that fish food. Then again, some snails tend to be picky. Switching to reptile foods would be a good move as most reptile foods are eagerly eaten by the snails and these contain calcium they need. Rachel uses Jurassi-cal calcium and mixes it with her snail jello recipes. Snail jello lasts usually a few weeks depending on the volume of the ingredients you prepared. This along with veggies and plaster of Paris pucks helps. I add honey which was also suggested in one of Rachel's recipe. It seems to help attract the snails as they like anything sugary as evident by the strawberry flavored Tums which has attracted them far more than any flavors.lol
Shrimp pellets, algae wafers, zucchini or squash, spinach leaves, broccoli, cucumber, steamed carrot, cabbage leaves, romaine lettuce.. whatever I have on hand... some cuttlebone. It's a lot of snails, so they pick up excess fish flakes, worms, and pellets too. Sometimes, I'll put in a few pond sticks that float. They eat everything.
Because of them, I rarely pour or dribble salad dressing on my salad anymore. Use that on the side now more for dipping, so I won't have to wash off anything left over that will get tossed into the tank. I guess that's healthier for me and makes it easy to give them treats and a variety of veggies.
Because of them, I rarely pour or dribble salad dressing on my salad anymore. Use that on the side now more for dipping, so I won't have to wash off anything left over that will get tossed into the tank. I guess that's healthier for me and makes it easy to give them treats and a variety of veggies.
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You know, it's funny you should say that. My friend saw a photo I took of one of my snails munching on some green bean and he said, "It's not a dog, you can't just scrape off your unwanted veggies and give it to them to eat!" :lol2:
Hahaha.. yes you can!
Between the snails, one crab, and a bunny.... all I seem to end up with for me from a salad bar are the tomatoes, olives, and mushrooms. I tried sharing some mushrooms once, but got dirty looks from everyone that seemed to say, "get that fungus out of here."