My snails used to really like snail jello, but usually if it had a good dose of fish food. They also went crazy for slice of zucchini. They didn't really care for carrots or lettuce though. Picky little things lol
Whats your 'bread and butter' when feeding your snails???
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my snails eat everything!!! some like the cucumber some don't but they all love pellets and flakes ( they eat out of my hands) they love shrimp pellets and the go mad over tubifex worms!
I gave my 8 bridgessi some made up jello last night and this morning it was completely gone.
I didn't have baby food and with a foot of snow, I wasn't going to get any. So I took a box of frozen chopped spinach (thawed and unsqueezed) microwaved it about a minute, sprinkled the gelatin in and gently stirred. Added a good tablespoon of fish flake and 2 tums (crushed). Let it set up in the fridge in a loaf pan for 3 hours. Cut it into 1/2 inch cubes.
I didn't have baby food and with a foot of snow, I wasn't going to get any. So I took a box of frozen chopped spinach (thawed and unsqueezed) microwaved it about a minute, sprinkled the gelatin in and gently stirred. Added a good tablespoon of fish flake and 2 tums (crushed). Let it set up in the fridge in a loaf pan for 3 hours. Cut it into 1/2 inch cubes.
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Well, my Ivory Mystery snails LOVE my snail jello!!!!! Though my Nerites actually went over a piece of it and kept going:headshake2:.
I used 'Garden Vegetables' from Gerber, shredded turnip greens, shrimp pellets, and Omega One Veggie Flake food, oh, and gelatin of course.
Amount and in order if that matters.....
4 oz baby food Garden Vegetables w/ 6% calcium
1 packet of Knox gelatin
approx. 2 full leaves of turnip greens shredded into very tiny pieces
1 tsp of Omega One Veggie Flake Food
and approx 2 dozen shrimp pellets
mine actually become jello-like in one hour in my fridge( I keep my fridge cold for my liquid bread:cheers
Anyway, it turned out better than I thought but I did forget to put honey in it. Got another question for the more advanced snail keepers...... My baby food has 6% calcium, and my spinach I bought for my next batch has 8% calcium, if I combine the two, will that be enough calcium for my snails????? And were in the heck do you find calcium pills without vit. D or were can you get the calcium powder????? I only went to Wally World and they had neither
Oh, and how many times a week do you guys/gals feed your snails?? I have approx 30 snails @ about nickel size and my snail jello is 1/2 inch squares about 1/4 thick.
I used 'Garden Vegetables' from Gerber, shredded turnip greens, shrimp pellets, and Omega One Veggie Flake food, oh, and gelatin of course.
Amount and in order if that matters.....
4 oz baby food Garden Vegetables w/ 6% calcium
1 packet of Knox gelatin
approx. 2 full leaves of turnip greens shredded into very tiny pieces
1 tsp of Omega One Veggie Flake Food
and approx 2 dozen shrimp pellets
mine actually become jello-like in one hour in my fridge( I keep my fridge cold for my liquid bread:cheers
Anyway, it turned out better than I thought but I did forget to put honey in it. Got another question for the more advanced snail keepers...... My baby food has 6% calcium, and my spinach I bought for my next batch has 8% calcium, if I combine the two, will that be enough calcium for my snails????? And were in the heck do you find calcium pills without vit. D or were can you get the calcium powder????? I only went to Wally World and they had neither
Oh, and how many times a week do you guys/gals feed your snails?? I have approx 30 snails @ about nickel size and my snail jello is 1/2 inch squares about 1/4 thick.
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I think I just got lucky. For the first time in two months, I just saw three nerites munching happily on the cucumber slice. The honey is optional. You don't have to add it in your recipe. It was there as most of the time, some snails eat snail jello for the first time and some are just so coy they won't show up until the night.
The calcium content should be sufficient. Try collards or dill greens (hmmm...I may have the name wrong). Both are high in calcium content or higher than spinach at least.
As for calcium without Vitamin D, that's the trouble with Caltrate. Wyeth seems to have manufactured limited stocks of Caltrate without Vitamin D added so I had to resort to Tums. This clouds the water a bit. Avoid the peppermint flavored ones as apparently Bettacreek has pointed out this may burn their skin. My snails like strawberry flavored ones best.
I now use plaster of Paris pucks. See post 4 in Snail jello recipe sticky thread. I still use Tums as I only like the snails burying their faces into it with white powder stuck.lol The plaster of Paris pucks seem to clarify my water when I use Tums. LOL...It works as a water clarifier as much as buffering component to avoid shell erosion.
The calcium content should be sufficient. Try collards or dill greens (hmmm...I may have the name wrong). Both are high in calcium content or higher than spinach at least.
As for calcium without Vitamin D, that's the trouble with Caltrate. Wyeth seems to have manufactured limited stocks of Caltrate without Vitamin D added so I had to resort to Tums. This clouds the water a bit. Avoid the peppermint flavored ones as apparently Bettacreek has pointed out this may burn their skin. My snails like strawberry flavored ones best.
I now use plaster of Paris pucks. See post 4 in Snail jello recipe sticky thread. I still use Tums as I only like the snails burying their faces into it with white powder stuck.lol The plaster of Paris pucks seem to clarify my water when I use Tums. LOL...It works as a water clarifier as much as buffering component to avoid shell erosion.
