Snails
will usually find enough left over fish food, algae,
and live plant material to eat. If you need to supplement
their feeding (like in a bare tank), you can feed
lettuces like romaine, kale, or cucumber (split, remove
seeds, attach to something heavy to sink). Only provide
as much as they will eat over a day. Each day, remove
uneaten portions.
A
one inch snail might eat a 3" x 2" piece of romaine
once every two days as an example. Snails do not need
fresh vegetables daily unless there are a lot of them
or they are large like apple snails. One keeper of
apple snails reports that five 4 cm apple snails (P.
flagellata and P. glauca) might eat one big lettuce
leaf in a night. Snails will also eat the sinking
tablets made to feed bottom dwelling fish and plecostomus.
There are a number of algae-containing tablets for
algae eaters like plecostomus that work well as well
as Tabi-Min by Tetra that is a sinking food pellet.
