besides the food or what you are giving landsnails to eat you should give
them
calcar polverising calcareous stones together. Human calcar as it is sold in
farmacies
are not as good as calcareous polver from stones and quite expensive. I do
not keep
living landsnails as I don't have place. You also can give a mixture of
water, flour and
calcar to eat, which many of them would like it.
sincerly
chlamys varia

> On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, David Kirsh wrote:
>
> > Is the chlorine in the tap water going to affect the snails?
> >
> > David
>
> David,
>   I have kept one land snail for 1-1/2 years and two others for 3-4 months
> now.  I have used tap water (chlorinated) and well water with no noticable
> effects.  The latter snails were obtained as juveniles and are growing
> nicely.  the main water source for these two is chlorinated water.
>
> Regards,
> Charlie
>
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> Charlie Sturm, Jr
> Research Associate - Section of Mollusks
>                      Carnegie Museum of Natural History
>                      Pittsburgh, PA, USA
>
> Assistant Professor - Family Medicine
>
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