Florent Lefortier answered
Snails are herbivores - this means that they don’t eat meat. What a snail will actually eat depends on its habitat, and what type of snail it is.
So What Kind Of Things Do Snails Eat And Drink?
Anything with sugar or salt in! If you have a pet snail and you feed it anything sugary or salty, it will die. Ever heard about what happens when you pour salt on a slug? Well, it acts like acid, and melts the slug into a pile of foamy slime. This is very cruel, and it's what would happen to your snail if you fed it salty food.
What Else Do Snails Need?
Snails need quite a high-calcium diet in order to keep their shells nice and strong. Calcium occurs naturally in some soil types, especially in chalky areas.
Obviously, a strong shell won’t protect a snail from accidentally ending up under your shoe, but it should keep it safe from day-to-day damage or small predators!
So What Kind Of Things Do Snails Eat And Drink?
- Leaves
- Grass
- Plants
- Fruit
- Vegetables
- Lettuce
- Algae
- Dirt (if there’s nothing else to eat!)
- Water (in the form of dew drops and the moisture found in soil)
Anything with sugar or salt in! If you have a pet snail and you feed it anything sugary or salty, it will die. Ever heard about what happens when you pour salt on a slug? Well, it acts like acid, and melts the slug into a pile of foamy slime. This is very cruel, and it's what would happen to your snail if you fed it salty food.
What Else Do Snails Need?
Snails need quite a high-calcium diet in order to keep their shells nice and strong. Calcium occurs naturally in some soil types, especially in chalky areas.
Obviously, a strong shell won’t protect a snail from accidentally ending up under your shoe, but it should keep it safe from day-to-day damage or small predators!
