The snail often eats microorganisms and humus in the mud and phytoplankton in the water, young aquatic plants and moss, but also prefers to eat artificial feeds such as fruits and vegetables, vegetable leaves, milk bran bran, wheat bran, soybean meal (cake) and a variety of animal scraps.

The snail eats the microorganisms and humus in the mud under the water as well as phytoplankton and moss in the water, and also eats artificially fed synthetic feeds, various types of animal scraps, fish offal, greens, fruits and vegetables, vegetable leaves, rice bran, soybean flour (cake) and other foods. The snail prefers to grow and live in humus-rich waters, such as lakes, ponds and marshes with abundant water plants, field puddles, or river ditches with slow water flow.

The snail has a strong ability to reproduce, their resistance is strong, should not be sick, for the growth of the environment is not demanding, the general rural ditches, paddy fields, ponds can be stocked. If you choose to breed in ponds with open water, you can insert some bamboo poles and wooden strips into the pond for the snails to live in, and you can also plant some water hyacinth, water duckweed and other aquatic plants on the water surface for the snails to shade and feed on.

Habitat of the snail

The snail's main feeding organ is the tooth and tongue, which is used to scrape food from the bottom of the water and epiphytes. In the natural environment, the snail mainly eats aquatic plants, young stems and leaves, algae, bacteria and organic debris, but also filter-feeding zooplankton, and prefer night activities and feeding.

The snail starts to move and feed at a water temperature of about 15 degrees Celsius, and the optimal temperature for growth is 20 to 28 degrees Celsius, and at 30 degrees Celsius or more, the snail will shrink its flesh into its shell and cluster in the shade or dive into the soil to avoid the heat, and the snail will die when the water temperature is more than 40 degrees Celsius.

The snail is highly adaptable to drought and cold, and hibernates in mud holes when the water temperature is below 8°C. The snail will come out of its holes and feed only when the water temperature rises to about 15°C in the spring of the following year. The snail is very sensitive to the dissolved oxygen in the water, when the dissolved oxygen in the water drops to 3.5mg/L, they are not feeding; 1.5mg/L, start to die.