• Rozaŭtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    I like the idea of raising pet snails and other critters, but if you’re also growing food wouldn’t they eat all your shit?

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      3 days ago

      “Garden Snail” refers to the species of snail.

      You can keep them indoors in a glass terrarium habitat

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        2 days ago

        I accidently got a population of snails in one aquarium, and they really added beauty and specks of interesting life on both terrain and glass. Their shells where tiny but pretty, and I can really see how nice larger ones would be in a terrarium.

        I’m fortunate enough that I can just go outside in my garden in the summer to see them, but if I lived in a city that would definitely be a nice habitat to keep

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          2 days ago

          Snails are a common pest in the aquarium community because it’s easy to accidentally transport a bajillion snail eggs home on that new plant you just bought.

          I had a snail infestation that was beyond the point of my being able to manage it (without chemicals, which I wasn’t into) and had given up … until I got a few pea puffers.

          In a week they cleaned the whole tank.

          I think it was just fun for them.

          Little murder balls.