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Snail habits and characteristics
1, snails like to live in a dark and damp, loose and humus environment, day and night, fear direct sunlight, sensitive to environmental response, the most suitable environment: temperature 16 ~ 30 ℃ (23 ~ 30 ℃, the fastest growth and development); air humidity of 60% to 90%; feeding soil humidity of 40% or so; pH 5 ~ 7. When the temperature is lower than 15 ℃, higher than 33 ℃ when the hibernation, lower than 5 ℃ or higher than 40 ℃, then it may be frozen or heat death. But various snails vary.

2, snails like to burrow into the loose humus in the habitat, egg laying, regulating the body humidity and absorb some of the nutrients, the time can be up to 12 hours long. Omnivorous and partiality coexist. Prefer humidity and fear of flooding. In the humid night, and put into the wet food, the snail's appetite is active. However, flooding can cause snails to suffocate. Self-feeding survivability.

3, small snails once hatched, will crawl and take food, do not want the mother to take care of. When infested by enemies, its head and feet will shrink back into the shell, and secrete mucus to seal the shell mouth; when the shell damage disabling, it can secrete certain substances to repair the flesh and shell. It has great endurance.

4, the snail has amazing survival ability, cold, heat, hunger, drought has a strong tolerance. Prefer constant temperature breeding. The temperature is constant between 25 to 28 ℃, growth, development and reproduction is vigorous. When the snail is crawling, it will also leave a line of mucus on the ground, which is a liquid secreted from its body, even if it walks on the knife edge.