White Jade Snail Farming Methods and Feeding Key Points
There are many kinds of snails. Today, the editor will lead everyone to get to know the so-called White Jade Snail. The White Jade Snail, which also has another name called the brown cloud agate snail, belongs to the agate snail mollusks. The White Jade Snail reproduces very quickly, and can reproduce quickly all year round. There are more and more hot topics about the White Jade Snail. Many people are already concerned about the farming techniques for the White Jade Snail. Today, the editor will join everyone in getting to know a series of problems existing in the farming techniques for the White Jade Snail.
How to raise the White Jade Snail
1. Suitable temperature. Appropriate temperature is the prerequisite for ensuring normal growth and activity of snails. Snails are cold-blooded animals, that is, poikilothermic animals, and their body temperature changes with the ambient temperature, so temperature is especially important for the growth and reproduction of snails. The most suitable temperature for raising White Jade Snails is 20 °C~32 °C. The temperature difference between day and night should not be too large, and generally should not exceed 5 °C.
2. In summer, cooling should be carried out, and measures such as strengthening ventilation, shading, and frequent watering can be adopted. In winter, facilities such as heaters, stoves, light bulbs, electric furnaces, ground fires, and fire walls can be used for insulation.
3. When the temperature is high and the humidity is low, the snail itself loses water. After losing 30% of its water, it will stop activity and may even die; conversely, if the snail lives for a long time in soil that is too damp or moldy and rotten, it will develop diseases from bacterial infection and die.
4. Therefore, the most suitable relative air humidity for the growth and activity of snails is 80%~90%, which can be measured with a hanging hygrometer. The soil humidity is 30%~40%, and must not exceed 50%. Generally, after adding water and mixing it damp, the standard is that it forms a ball when pinched and breaks apart when touched.
What the White Jade Snail eats
1. Generally in spring, feed plants such as Chinese cabbage, green vegetables, and lettuce; in summer, various melon and fruit peel residues, sugarcane, sunflower leaves, etc. can be fed; in autumn and winter, feed vegetable leaves, potato slices, carrots, etc. White Jade Snails do not eat green grass or weeds, and refuse to eat strongly flavored foods such as scallions, ginger, garlic, chives, and mustard. Melons, fruits, and tubers must be cut into thin strips or thin slices before feeding, and attention should be paid to the diversity of food to prevent picky eating.
2. To speed up growth and increase the egg-laying rate, it is best to add crushed wheat bran, rice bran, tofu residue, yeast powder, soybean powder, fish meal, bone meal, shell powder, or stone powder and other mixed concentrated feed to the feed. Commonly used feed formula: rice bran and bran 50%, shell powder 40%, yeast powder 8%. Others (fish meal, soybean powder, flour) and trace elements and special additives 2%. The added amount of concentrated feed accounts for 10%~15% of the total feed. Feeding should be around 6 p.m., feeding activity peaks from 20:00 to 24:00, and feeding stops at 6 a.m. the next day.
Pest and disease control techniques for the White Jade Snail
1. After discovering phorid flies, the rearing soil should be replaced. The rearing box or rearing pool should be poured with boiling water, exposed to the sun, and indoors can be sprayed with Kehaiwei. Mix semi-moist and semi-dry chicken and pig manure with a small amount of roasted soybean cake or rapeseed cake powder, mix evenly, put it into a gauze bag, tie the bag mouth tightly, and hang it beside the rearing pool for trapping and killing. When phorid flies drill into the bag to feed, take it out after 1~2 days and pour boiling water on it to kill them. This can be used continuously many times.
2. Wall mites, also called flour mites, often multiply in large numbers in dirty environments with high temperature, high humidity, and poor ventilation. After discovering wall mites, the rearing box or pool can be disinfected with a 0.3% peracetic acid solution, and the rearing soil replaced; the rearing room can be sprayed with a 1% Weihaijing solution, using 0.2~0.4 grams per square meter, but be careful not to spray the medicinal solution directly on young snails.
Temperature control techniques for the White Jade Snail
Chisel a small hole 25 cm square at the base of the wall, build a firewood stove, then build two brick ground dragons from the opening, each 30 cm high and 24 cm wide, with a length the same as the horizontal direction of the rearing room, and conceal them below the ground where the rearing racks are placed. At the other end of the wall, the two ground dragons meet to form one outlet, and waste gas is discharged through a chimney. As long as the firewood fire does not go out day or night, the indoor temperature can be maintained between 25-30 degrees. Near the dragon head close to the stove, more water should be sprayed to regulate the indoor air temperature and humidity and reduce the high temperature at the ground dragon opening.
Regarding the question of how to raise the White Jade Snail, the editor has already given the answer above. Although the White Jade Snail reproduces in all four seasons, it still has certain requirements for the environment. The White Jade Snail especially likes to live in dark and damp places. Therefore, people who raise White Jade Snails must remember not to raise them in places with very strong sunlight.