CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What soil do snails need?

1. Can I use ordinary soil to raise gray-tipped snails?

Ordinary soil can be used. Ordinary soil contains many humus-rich fungi, which snails need very much. Snails like to live in dark and humid environments with overgrown weeds, lush crops, soft soil, and more humus. They hide during the day and move at night. Sometimes they come out to feed during the day on rainy days. When raising snails, we usually choose a transparent, breathable special box for the snails to use as a nest. We choose a transparent box because it is convenient to observe the condition of the snails in the box, and the box also needs to be breathable and have gaps to allow air circulation inside the box.

2. What are the requirements for the soil quality of snail breeding?

I think it is right that snails like to live in a dark, humid, loose and humus-rich environment. They hide during the day and come out at night. They like to drill into loose humus soil to live, lay eggs, regulate body humidity and absorb some nutrients. It can also be regarded as living in the soil.

3. Is it okay to raise snails in a building?

Can.

1. Snails can be kept at home. They can be kept in buildings.

2. When raising snails, it is best to put them in a plastic container at home. The plastic container should be breathable. If there is no breathable container, the owner can use scissors to cut a few small holes at the bottom of the container to make it breathable.

When the container is ready, you need to find the right soil. Because snails live in the soil, especially in winter when the temperature is very low, the soil you choose should have a certain temperature, so that the snails can feel safe. The soil can be ordinary soil, but it is best to choose coconut soil instead of sand, which is not suitable for snails to survive.

4. What are the requirements for snail breeding sites?

Soil environment: Snails like to burrow into humus soil to live and lay eggs, so it is recommended to use nutrient soil rich in humus.

Temperature conditions: The suitable temperature conditions for snail farming are between 16-30 degrees Celsius, avoiding temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius or below 5 degrees Celsius.

Moist and dark: Snails hide during the day and come out at night. They are afraid of direct sunlight, so a moist breeding environment is required.

5. Where to artificially breed snails?

1. The breeding site of snails can be planned and designed according to the scale of breeding. Large-scale breeding can adopt indoor breeding, field breeding, shed breeding, soil ditch breeding and other methods, while small-scale breeding can adopt tank breeding, wooden box breeding, courtyard breeding, balcony breeding and other methods. Regardless of which breeding method is used, the breeding site must be set up and planned according to the characteristics of snails, but the snails must be placed in a quiet, dark, humid, warm and vibration-free environment.

2. You can use farmland to breed snails. First, plow the soil and then fine it. Plant some broad-leaved trees around the farmland to provide shade. Be sure to use nets around it to effectively prevent snails from escaping. You can also use the roof of a flat-roofed house for breeding. Put a layer of loose soil more than 10 cm thick on the roof, and plant a few grapes around it to build a trellis for shade. Use nets around it. The advantages of open-air breeding are fresh air, good humidity, fast growth of snails, and mild disease. But be careful. When the weather is dry, you must sprinkle water in time to keep the soil moist.

3. You can also choose to breed snails in plastic greenhouses. First, choose an open space of 30 meters long and 6 meters wide, plow the soil once, build a 30cm high wall around it, and then build a plastic greenhouse. After the greenhouse is built, level the plowed soil in the greenhouse and you can breed. The advantage of breeding in plastic greenhouses is that it is easy to adjust the temperature and prevent natural enemies, but you should pay attention to adding sunshade facilities in the hot season to keep the soil moist and the air properly convective.

2. What soil should be used for breeding snails?

1. To breed snails, you must use moist, loose, humus-rich soil, and in order to prevent the soil from hardening, you should replace it about once every six months or a year. At the same time, the soil humidity should be kept at 15%-18%, and must not exceed 21%. You can also mix farmland soil, sandy soil, yellow sand, cinder ash, and stone powder in a ratio of 3:2:1:5:0.5 to make breeding soil, then expose it to the sun for a few days for disinfection, and finally add appropriate amount of water to make the soil humidity reach 40%.

2. Snails prefer to live in a dark, humid, loose and humus-rich environment. They are afraid of direct sunlight and are sensitive to the environment. They usually hide in caves during the day and come out to look for food at night. Snails will live in the soil, lay eggs, regulate body humidity and absorb some nutrients. The suitable growth temperature is 23-30°C. When the temperature is below 15°C, they will enter hibernation.

3. Snails have a particularly strong ability to survive and have a strong tolerance to cold, heat, hunger and drought. They have a wide range of diets, including all kinds of vegetables, weeds, melon and fruit peels, crop stems and leaves, flowers, juicy fruits, etc. You can feed them tender leaves, weeds, melon and fruit peels, crop stems and leaves, various green grass and highland barley feeds, etc., and feed them three times a day.

6. Is it okay to grow flowers with snail shells in the soil?

Can.

1. Before planting flowers, it is best to pour out the soil in the pot, break up the soil and place it in the sun for three days. Turn the soil over frequently while sunbathing. This will more effectively utilize ultraviolet rays and strong light to kill insect eggs and viral pathogens in the pot soil, thereby reducing the occurrence of diseases and pests in planted flowers.

2. It is best to mix some nutrient soil when planting to increase the nutrients in the potting soil. This is because the potting soil after planting onions is absorbed by the onions in large quantities, resulting in a lack of nutrients in the pot. Adding some nutrient soil is beneficial to the normal growth of the flowers after planting. When planting, bury a small amount of farmyard manure or long-acting base fertilizer bought from the flower shop at the bottom of the pot, mainly to supplement the lack of nutrients in the pot.

7. How to feed snails?

First of all, it is best to use a wooden box to raise snails because it has good moisture retention. Snails cannot dry out. If they dry out, they will shrink into their shells and not come out. But I see that my brothers use fancy cages or glass or plastic tanks to raise them, which is not good. Cages cannot store water and are very easy to dry out, unless you have the energy and time to spray water. Glass tanks can store water, but too much water cannot be dissipated, which easily breeds bacteria and odors. If you have to use a glass tank for beauty and viewing convenience, you have to design it well. I am only talking about wooden boxes here. The wooden box is padded with a mixture of loess and fine sand, with a mixing ratio of about 3 soil to 1 sand. The humidity should be moderate, so that a handful of sand and soil can be squeezed into a ball in the hand, and it will not fall apart when you let go, but it will fall apart when you touch it. Don't mix it with mud when mixing. Now mix the sand and soil well, spray some water on a layer of sand, and then sprinkle a layer of sand and soil and spray water again. Repeat this cycle. The thickness of the sand and soil should be at least 5 cm, but if it is for reproduction, it should be at least 8-10 cm, because snails need to drill holes into the soil to reproduce when they reproduce. It seems that snails always reproduce when the weather is hot. When you see a snail burrowing into the soil after mating - even if you can't see the snail, you can see that it has drilled a hole - it means that it is about to reproduce. Be sure to make sure that it has finished breeding and come out. At this time, you can gently dig the hole, take out the eggs, and place them in a tile flowerpot. The soil is 5 cm under the eggs and 1-2 cm above the eggs. The type and humidity of the sandy soil are the same as the soil in the box. Pay attention to maintaining humidity. I didn't pay attention to the temperature. Anyway, in summer, white and transparent small snails came out after 2 weeks. Here I would like to talk about the problem of snail food. I saw that some buddies only feed vegetables and fruits. This is not a comprehensive nutrition. The feed for snails should be a mixture of cornmeal, bran, calcium powder, and glucose. Spread this mixture on a piece of glass and spray it with water, and you can see the snails eating it. In this way, supplemented with vegetables and fruits, your snails will grow big and bright. How to raise snails 1. Temperature is an important factor affecting their growth activities. They have the characteristics of being warm and avoiding cold and heat. This is determined by genetic factors. Because snails are cold-blooded animals, that is, cold-blooded animals, their body temperature changes with the change of environmental temperature, so temperature is particularly important for the growth and reproduction of snails. The most basic temperature requirement for the growth and activity of snails is 15-39 degrees. The optimal temperature is 25-35 degrees. When the temperature drops to 8 degrees, they gradually enter a dormant state. There is a danger of freezing to death below 0 degrees. When the temperature rises to 40 degrees, it will cause hibernation. 2. The living habits of snails depend on suitable temperature and humidity. This is because the daily activities of snails depend entirely on their own secretion of mucus with a high water content to keep the body moist. On the other hand, because snails rely on the mantle to breathe air and cannot live completely immersed in water, snails have formed a habit of loving tides and hating immersion. 3. Strong light stimulation is not conducive to the growth of snails. Snails are mainly active at night, afraid of direct sunlight during the day, and like to live in dark and humid environments. Snails have very poor and abnormal vision. They can only see objects within 6 cm in strong light, but can see farther in weak light, and can see objects within 20 cm. 4. Generally speaking, snails are afraid of direct sunlight, and the temperature difference is small at night, the air humidity is high, and the light is dim, which is not conducive to the loss of water in the snail's body, so they usually move and feed at night. The activity pattern is to start around 6 pm, reach a peak between 8 and 12 pm, and gradually weaken after 12 pm, until it basically stops completely around 8 am the next day and starts to rest. 5. Snails need to drill the soil during their growth and development. First, they absorb nutrients such as humus, organic matter, and calcium from the soil; second, they regulate humidity; third, they resist enemies; and fourth, they lay eggs. 6. Hibernation is a habit of snails to resist adversity, protect themselves, and thus maintain their lives. When snails encounter adverse conditions such as high temperature, low temperature, lack of food, and lack of water, they will automatically secrete mucus to form a membrane to seal the shell opening until the adversity is lifted. They will gradually wake up, break the membrane, and continue to move. The snail's dormancy period can be as long as 6 months, which means that the snail can dormant for 6 months without eating or moving and will not die. 7. Snails are omnivorous animals. They generally feed on the roots, stems, leaves, flowers, and fruits of green plants, such as lettuce leaves, cabbage leaves, pumpkin leaves, loofah leaves, bitter endive, sweet potatoes, carrots, and various fruits and vegetables, but they do not like to eat irritating plants, such as leeks, garlic, onions, peppers, and salty foods. In addition, they also eat some sand and soil because the soil contains humus. Young snails mostly feed on humus and fully decomposed plant leaves.

8. What is laid in a snail’s nest?

A: You need to lay a layer of soil under the snails. The soil can be made by mixing farm soil, sand, yellow sand, cinder ash, and stone powder in proportion. Snails like to live in a dark and humid environment. They can be raised in boxes or pots and can be fed with tender vegetable leaves, melon and fruit peels, and stems and leaves of crops.

Snails are the most common molluscs on land and have high edible and medicinal value.