Raising Baby Snails

The anatomy involved in land snail feeding is fascinating! Snails have evolved to eat just about everything; they are herbivorous, carnivorous, omnivorous, and detritivorous — eating decaying waste from plants and other animals. There are specialist and generalist species that eat worms, vegetation, rotting vegetation, animal waste, fungus, and other snails.Snails eat with a jaw and a flexible band of thousands of microscopic teeth, called a radula. The radula scrapes up, or rasps, food particle