But today, researchers are starting to rethink a drug-only approach to combating schistosomiasis. In a new study, researchers at Stanford University discovered that countries that used a creative ecological approach to snail control — such as introducing a predator to the environment—greatly reduced infection rates in those communities.
Sokolow says other countries have also had success in reducing snail population using an integrated approach. It's that integrated strategy These vegetables and fruits are usually very cheap or free. Snail farmers do this with the intention to reduce cost and increase profit margin.
Some of these fruits are already contaminated with bacterial. When you feed your snails with such feed they will eventually get infected and your snails will die.
Some fruit and vegetables get contaminated with pesticide in the field where they are grown. When snails begin to consume such fruits and vegetables on a consistent basis, some snails will eventually get sick and die. The soil quality in your snail farm is another factor to consider when you experience snail mortality as a snail farmer.
When your soil quality is poor it becomes a breeding ground for pest and diseases. Which can lead to snail mortality. Most farmers who practice the intensive housing system can testify to this. Some specie of snails cannot survive in some environment. The Achatina Achatina is native to Ghana. Snail farmers in Nigeria has always record a high mortality rate with Achtina Achatina. This specie is very sensitive to environmental condition.
They will die when the temperature becomes too warm. If you have the Achatina Achatina Specie you are not alone. Farmers in places like Ghana are doing fine with it but Nigerian farmers are still trying to get the specie to thrive and prevent mortality. This remain the most important factor to consider when you want to start a snail farm or you want to correct an exist snail farm. As a snail farmer make sure that your housing can create a safe environment for your snails.
I use the intensive system with large hutch boxes. I had to get a cat to scare rat and other rodents away from the farm. You can also consider getting a cat to help you with rodents and other predators. Tyres and drums are prone to rats and other enemies of snails.
I do not advise that housing system. Good housing will also help you to monitor the cause of disease and manage it effectively. Which will help to prevent your snails from dying. For instance breeding Achachatina Achachatina in Nigeria you have to create housing that will mimic the snails natural habitat. This is the only way it can survive and produce. After getting the right housing system for your snail farm, you need to practice good hygiene.
Get a bio-security plan and implement it to prevent the outbreak of a disease or infection. Schedule cleaning activities and implement them. Remove all left over feed and replace with a fresh feed. Do not create any opportunity for bacterial or fungi to breed in the farm. Do not use pesticide to control pest or predators in the snail farm. Remove any sick snail and wash hands thoroughly after touching a sick or dead snail.
Do not move sick snails to a pen that contains healthy snails. As a snail farmer, you need to carryout some important routine activities to prevent snail mortality. If you practice the intensive housing system, you need to work really hard to make the environment conducive for the snails. You need to practice weekly and monthly activities like tilling the soil. Tilling helps to loosen the soil. This also help to increase reproductive activities.
If your growing area is also intensive, you need to change the soil every months to prevent bacterial and fungi infection. I learnt this the hard way. Remove old worn out soil and replace with fresh loamy soil. Carry out regular sorting and grade snails into different sizes. Dead snails smell particularly awful when they have been dead for a bit much like most dead things. The body will have a pungent, rotting odor like rotting food.
Moreover, there will be an ammonia spike in your aquarium, which then means you may want to do a serious water change after removing the dead snail.
Another way to explain the smell of a dead aquarium snail is to think of a two-day roadkill in the middle of a summer heatwave. A dead aquarium snail is just about the most unpleasant smell there is and very hard to get off your hands. So, if it is dead, you will know. Both of these behaviors might be triggered by bad water conditions in the fish tank, which can potentially kill the snails. Breeds like apple snails prefer to climb out of the tanks, while others like assassin snails retract into their shells.
So, if not sure whether your floating snail is dead or alive, you may want to confirm by getting it out of the water gently and smell it. In the wild, especially in flowing streams, snails float to travel faster given that they are not the best swimmers. To do this, they come up to the surface, store some amount of air in their shells, which then make them buoyant enough to float.
The snails then ride the current to a new place for a fresh start; the one in your aquarium may be trying to do that. Another reason a snail might be floating in your tank, other than death, mobility, and water condition, is hunger.
In this case, your snail will float upside down to have the food floating on the surface. Of course, this means you need to feed it more. For instance, mystery snails are not good algae consumers, but people assume because they are snails they do. The truth is they need a much more complex diet. So, feed them vegetables like blanched cucumber or romaine lettuce, and other things high in calcium to keep them from remaining hungry and floating to feed on scraps.
Aquarium snails may appear dead, but they often remain inactive while sleeping. They tend to do this after a large meal or due to stress resulting from changes in water parameters. However, if you suspect your snail has died and not merely sleeping, you should remove it from the fish tank for further investigation, and keep a potentially dead body from releasing ammonia in your water.
Smell the snails to check it is not dead, or try any of these other ways to make sure your snail is not dead but sleeping.
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