Snails can be adorable pets

If you have always been fascinated or curious about snails, what about raising one as a pet?
5 reasons for having a snail pet

1. They can be cute and fascinating animals to admire and collect.
2. They can live for a fair good time, depending on the specie.
3. They are very easy and inexpensive to maintain.
4. They do not take much room, just a tank with soil in it.
5. They eat almost anything from plants, vegetables, fruits to fungi.

Snail facts

• They are hermaphrodites, they produce both spermatozoids and ovules.

• They must be kept warm and humid.

• Their main predators are birds, snakes, frogs, hedgehogs, turtles, and even some species of predator snails.

• Snails hibernate in the winter, and during this time they can loose up to60% of their weight.
  

• They lay ages when they are about 3 years old.

• Snails only have 1 foot, 2 eyes and 2 tentacles.

• The most common kind of snail for pet is the Lissachatina fulica.

Source: Petsnail.co.uk