Golden Apple Snail Diet

[krishanu]

i got my golden apple snail a few weeks ago and so far i have fed him on boiled peas (for lack of cabbage and spinach). could anybody advise me on what they like to eat, or what is good for them?

 

[three-fingers]

I've never had one(may soon though) but i've seen them munching away at cucumber at the lfs. Lettuce too and you can buy algea wafers for plecs and other vegetarian fish that they love to eat .

I like to put a thick slice of cucumber in a small dish of water in the microwave for around 45 secs on full power. My plec and my triops love it, and i have a lone small ramshorn snail in the triops tank that eats it as well .

 

[wodesorel]

Pretty much anything that is green and that a human can eat, plus pesticide and fertilizer free dandilion from the garden. Stay away from ice burg lettuce - there's no nutritional value to it whatsoever, but reagular leaf lettuce is good! You can also feed sinking wafers, shrimp pellets, or buy or make your own "snail pellets."

It really depends on the type of yellow snail that you have. It would either be a brig, cana, or haustrum. (Or possibly a ramshorn depending on the shell shape.) The briggs need very mushy food that has been microwaved, blanched, or frozen first. The other snails will eat it cooked or raw, and the raw veggies last longer in the aquarium and don't foul up the water as much.

www.applesnail.net is a good place to research what type of snail you have, and give you a better idea about food choices. They also have homemade reciped to try!

 

[krishanu]

thanks a million...i will definitely try it out...

 

[SPLiSH]

My golden mystery snail (Esmarelda) eats raw pumpkin, I cut it into a cube about 1" x 1" and it sinks for her to gobble up.

She also likes zucchuni but only serve small portions of this as it spoils quickly.

BTW - I have no idea if she actually is a she, she just looks graceful and feminine.

 

[raeburter]

i put my snail in the guppy tank and it seems like it eats everything..It evens eat the !@#$ from the guppies......I dun want to be a snail in the next life.........

 

[three-fingers]

i put my snail in the guppy tank and it seems like it eats everything..It evens eat the !@#$ from the guppies......I dun want to be a snail in the next life.........

Hmmmmm.....interesting .

 

[voo]

I've given my snails brocolli (sp?) that's been boiled.
They also like krill pellets.

 

[sammy86]

Apple snails LOVE cuecumber, seriously, it lasts minates, mine also love bloodworm pellets.
i even saw one tackle a shrimp carcass, he decided it wasnt for him and went back to his cuecumber lol

once i even saw one eating mosquito larvae...they really do eat everything lol

 

[raeburter]

ill tell u what they eat it eats my fish poo my snail poo it eats it own poo and bloodworms and peas and all the left overs from my fish like flakes and a lot more

 

[guppler]

Mine eat pretty much everything too. They loved my purple waffle plant. I usually don't worry about feeding snails that live with fish, because I know they'll find something. When I keep them alone I give them mostly algae wafers and some bottom feeder pellets and whatever else is handy. I should do more fresh vegies, but I mostly use packaged dry fish food.
I like to watch my golden (and ivory , or any other collor) apple snails eat floating fish flakes. They all crawl up the glass and hang out right at the water line and turn their feet into funnel shapes that just barely let water pass over the edge, and I think they make the water flow over and through the funnel foot just so they can catch flakes and stuff floating on the surface. Then every once in a while they stick their mouth in the funnel and clean out the food they caught. It's really neat, and I don't know how they know to do it, but it works.