CATDOLL : CATDOLL: What are the uses of raising snails? (What are the most common uses of raising snails?)

1. Why should we raise snails?

Why raise snails?

Randomness of feeding: It is better to feed it once a month than once a day. When the environment is extremely bad (forgot to feed or water it or "accidentally" put it on the heater), it will shrink into the deep of the shell and practice in seclusion. When there is enough water, it will break out of the shell as if reborn (breaking its own protective membrane). Before the end of the world, you will look at it and feel that it can survive to the end even if no one can. It is a god-like existence.

Fun that other species can't give you: snails don't make noises and they blow bubbles. When you're bored, you can count their teeth. It is said that snails have 25,600 teeth, which can be counted until the end of time. In addition, if you are not afraid of adopting a lot of small snails, you can try to buy two and raise them together. Snails are hermaphrodites. The two can discuss who will be the father and who will be the mother, and then congratulations on becoming a grandfather. Snails are also an animal that has escaped the earth's gravity.

The joy of feeding: eating cucumbers, the whole body turns green, and the feces turn green; eating watermelons, the whole body turns red, and the feces turn red; eating newspapers, reading entertainment magazines or current affairs news... In order to supplement calcium, snails will also eat their own shells. Yes, at first, it was quite frightening to hear the grinding sound in the room in the middle of the night, but you will get used to it and supplement calcium in time (feed the wall skin).

The fun of showing off: Want to show your pet to your friends? Unfortunately, small animals move too fast to be captured. There is no such trouble when raising snails. They move slowly, allowing you to adjust all parameters and press the shutter. Even at night, there is no pressure to shoot in B mode, and you are not afraid of flash.

Low cost of raising: It costs a lot of money to buy a famous cat or dog. Cat food, dog food, and turtle food are expensive. You have to feed them meat from time to time, right? A month's salary is all spent on feeding cats (domestic cats, wild cats, and Tmall). Raising snails is worry-free. Go to the seafood market and ask the boss for one. When you cook vegetables, leave a cucumber tail for it, and when you eat fruit, give it a bite (it will still be licking the fruit after you have eaten it whole).

2. What role do snails play in the soil?

1. As an indicator organism for monitoring environmental pollution.

Snails are in direct contact with soil and plants during their lives and feeding, and can directly absorb metal pollutants from the atmosphere, soil and plants.

However, since snails contain a special protein that can reduce the toxicity of metals, they will not be seriously harmed even if they are inhaled into the snail's body.

Based on this characteristic of snails, measuring the heavy metal content in snail bodies can reflect both the concentration of soil pollutants and the enrichment intensity in the snail bodies.

Therefore, snails can be used as indicator organisms to monitor environmental pollution.

2. Determine the heavy metal content in snails.

There have been relatively systematic studies and analyses abroad on the accumulation of heavy metals and other toxic and harmful substances in snails, but there are few research reports in China.

Analyzing and determining the changes in metal content in snail weight has important practical significance for evaluating the effectiveness of snails in treating environmental pollutants and for the rational use of snails.

There are two methods to determine the metal content of snails:

(1) Determination of the content of metal pollutants in the digestive glands of snails.

Researchers have found that the content of metal pollutants in snail digestive glands is an important indicator of the degree of soil pollution.

By testing this indicator, soil and environmental pollution can be reported and prevented in a timely manner.

Chemical testing of soil contaminated with heavy metals such as cadmium, zinc, copper and lead found that the metal pollutants in the soil in this area were the same as those in the snail's digestive glands.

(2) Determine the content of metal pollutants in snail bodies.

① Equipment for measuring samples:

The materials are mixed samples of cultured adult and juvenile white jade snails.

Take fresh live snails, wash them, treat them at 5°C for 6-8 hours, remove impurities and immediately place them in a 105°C oven to dry until constant weight, grind and sieve them to obtain snail analysis samples.

②Determination method:

It can be measured according to relevant standards.

③Measurement results:

The heavy metal content in the bodies of white jade snails raised in a certain area was measured, and the mercury content was ≤0.1 mg/kg, the lead content was ≤0.5 mg/kg, the arsenic content was ≤0.5 mg/kg, and the copper content was ≥35.2 mg/kg. The results showed that the copper content was seriously exceeded.

3. What are the main uses of snail farming?

In fact, although snails are harmful to agriculture, they are a good medicine for treating Parkinson's disease.

In some countries, snails are farmed and eaten as vegetables (Chinese people eat snails the same way, and it’s not disgusting.)

From the perspective of breeding, snails eat a lot and are easy to raise, saving a lot of natural resources compared to grazing cattle, sheep and other animals.

4. What is the use of raising snails?

Snails have high nutritional value, low cost, and a variety of uses. They can be made into food, health products, and skin care products, with high economic benefits.

5. Why keep snails in fish tanks?

Snails cannot be kept in a fish tank with water and fish. They can be kept in an empty fish tank. Snails refer to all terrestrial species of the gastropod class. They like to live in a dark, humid, loose and humus-rich environment. They hide during the day and come out at night. They are most afraid of direct sunlight and are sensitive to the environment. Snails like humidity but are afraid of flooding. In the humid night, the appetite of snails is active. But flooding can suffocate snails to death. Therefore, snails cannot be kept in a fish tank with water and fish. By the way, let me talk about the problem of raising snails in fish tanks. You can raise them, but you must pay attention to the species of snails. Some of them eat grass, so it is not good to raise them in a grass tank.

6. What are the uses of snails?

Snails have high edible and medicinal value. They are rich in nutrition, delicious, high-protein, low-fat, low-cholesterol, and rich in more than 20 kinds of amino acids. Snails are terrestrial molluscs of the gastropod class, and there are many species all over the world. According to relevant records, there are 40,000 species of snails around the world. Snails are distributed in all provinces and regions of my country, living in forests, shrubs, orchards, vegetable gardens, farmlands, parks, gardens, temples, mountains, plains, hills and other places. However, there are very few species that are worth raising and eating. As a high-protein, low-fat, high-quality food and animal protein feed for humans, snails are increasingly valued by people.

7. What are the benefits of raising snails?

Snail is a high-protein, low-fat food. 100 grams of snail meat usually contains 18 grams of protein, 5 grams of fat, and 7 grams of carbohydrates. In addition, snail meat also contains rich amino acids, calcium, alkaloids, phenols, lactone, coumarin, organic acids, vitamins and other substances.

As feed: The digestive enzymes in snails can promote the decomposition and conversion of feed by livestock.

As decoration: snail shells can be processed into various shell carvings.

8. What is the purpose of keeping snails in fish tanks?

Snails can be placed in fish tanks. A small number of snails can help clean some algae on the surface of aquatic plants and the walls of the tank, but not too many. They have strong reproductive abilities and will be difficult to remove if there are too many of them, causing harm to the fish and aquatic plants.

Although snails can remove algae, their reproductive capacity is too strong. It does not take too much time for them to fill the entire fish tank. Not only will they occupy the living space of the fish, but some may even endanger the health of the fish.

9. What can snails do in mud ponds?

Snails can loosen the soil, prevent soil compaction, promote water absorption and flow, and directly absorb metal pollutants in the atmosphere, soil and plants. By detecting snails in a region, the metal pollution of the soil in that region can be indirectly detected.

10. What is the use of raising snails?

Farmed snails have edible, medicinal and health-care value. Outdoor open-type snail farming models include trench, shed, and courtyard, allowing them to grow and reproduce in a protective circle similar to natural conditions; indoor artificial snail farming should choose a leeward open space, use bamboo or steel bars to build a 20-meter, 3-meter-wide, and 2-meter-high breeding shed, and cover the shed with plastic film.