Snails like to inhabit water environments where the bottom mud is rich in humus, such as lakes, ponds, fields, or slow-flowing rivers with lush aquatic plants. They often feed on microorganisms and humus in the soil and those floating in the water. It feeds on plants, young aquatic plants, moss, etc. It also likes to eat artificial feed, such as fruits and vegetables, vegetable leaves, rice bran, wheat bran, soybean meal (cake) and various animal scraps.

Snails begin to move and feed when the water temperature is around 15°C. The optimum temperature for growth is 20°C to 27°C. When the water temperature is above 30°C, they will retract their bodies into the shell to stop feeding, and they will gather in the shade or sneak into the soil. If the water temperature exceeds 40℃, they will die. If the water temperature is below 8℃, they will hibernate in mud caves. In the coming spring, when the water temperature rises to around 15℃, they will come out of the caves to move around and eat.

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If released at the end of the first year, the breeding time of snails can be shortened, which can increase the number of snails throughout the year. Yield, but in order to consider the survival rate, it is necessary to avoid the time when the temperature is too high. It can be delivered multiple times or all at once.

If you stock them in a natural breeding area, you can put 3 male snails and 8 female snails per square meter. If it is a separate breeding tank, 100-500 field snails can be placed per square meter. The water depth of the pool is most suitable when it is 0.8-1m, and a layer of silt of more than 10cm should be left at the bottom of the pool to facilitate snails to feed, crawl and inhabit. When releasing field snails, in order to reproduce naturally, male and female field snails can be raised at the same time.

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