Snails are very slow creatures in almost everything, be it in movement, or even locating and eating their foods.
One of the puzzles aquarium snail keepers have is, how to know if their snail is eating and if it is even eating enough food.
If you keep a Snail with other aquarium animals such as fish, you will want to know if your snail is eating anything because of how slow it is.
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In this article, I will give you tips to know if your snail is eating in its tank or if it’s starving.
How do I know if a snail is eating? Snails are normally very active and lively when they are well fed.
Understandably, snails are very active at night because they are nocturnal, so there is every possibility that you can’t just see them become very active in the daytime.
If you think that your snail is not eating anything or other tank mates are grabbing all the foods and your snail is starving, then you will have to monitor its movement at night.
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If your conch is on one side of the tank one second and a minute later he might be having a hard time finding food and with the snails, watch them at night when they are most active, if they are moving around, and be cleaning the glass, they should be fine.
This means that if you don’t find algae in your tank, then the snails are eating them, so they are fine and active.
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So, if you monitor your snail at the night and it seems to be weak and very sluggish, then there is every chance it is not getting enough food and is starving.
How Do I Know If My Snail Is Hungry?
Snails normally move around very sluggishly looking for food whenever they are hungry.
When they begin to starve, they become very weak and might stay inactive.
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This is one of the reasons why you may find a snail staying at one location and not moving or moving very sluggishly.
How Do I Get My Snail To Eat?
If your snail is not eating anything, the next question you might be asking is how to get it to eat.
How do I get my snail to eat? The only way to get your snail to eat is to optimize its appetite by giving it the type of foods snails love such as pieces of Cucumber, Romaine lettuce, and slices of sweet potatoes.
There are some interesting foods that snails love so much, so provide it to them and see if they can’t eat them.
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If they don’t, then they might be probably sick.
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