Can BTS eat aquatic snails?
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Scincus
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Can BTS eat aquatic snails?
There a no local sellers of feeder snails, so I was wondering if it is safe for a BTS to eat aquatic snails like the common ones sold as "apple snails" or "mystery snails".
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Re: Can BTS eat aquatic snails?
Yes. 
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Scincus
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Re: Can BTS eat aquatic snails?
Thank you! I'm going to go pick some up now.
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Scincus
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Re: Can BTS eat aquatic snails?
So I ended up getting three salt eater snails that are non-venomous/poisonous. Is that okay or does them being saltwater cause any problems?
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Re: Can BTS eat aquatic snails?
One of them is a Margarita snail and the other two are some sort of zebra/turbo snails.
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Re: Can BTS eat aquatic snails?
avoid hard shelled snails, or large ones. They can digest the calcium in for example mice bones but often Calcium in egg shells comes out largely the way it went in, so I would avoid large hard shelled aquatic snails which saltwater ones tend to be.
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Re: Can BTS eat aquatic snails?
Thank you!
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