Snail facts?

Question

We are working on a class project about snails, we got alot of information already, but need more, about garden snail's family life, their social behaviors, characteristics,snails and their relationships with humans,,etc,, any facts or sites that we can visit to learn more about snails would be appreciated,, thanks to anyone that can help us.

Answer 1

The largest land snail ever found was 15 inches long and weighed 2 pounds!
Snails' bodies produce a thick slime. Because of this slime, they can crawl across the edge of a razor and not get hurt.
Some snails have been known to live up to 15 years.
Snails are hermaphrodites which means that they have both male and female reproductive organs.
Snails usually travel in irregular paths, often traveling in a circle.
Snails reply mainly on their sense of touch and smell when finding food because they have very poor eyesight.
Snails cannot hear.
Snails can retract one or both of their tentacles at a time.
Because of the suction created by their slime, a snail can crawl upside down.
Snails are nocturnal animals which means they are more active at night.
Garden Snails mainly eat garden plants and vegetables, but they will also eat decaying plants and soil.
The fastest snails are the speckled garden snails which can move up to 55 yards per hour compared 23 inches per hour of most other land snails.
Garden snails hibernate during the winter and live on their stored fat.
Garden snails breathe with lungs.
Garden snails evolved from sea snails about 600 million years ago.
The garden snail is cooked and eaten as a delicacy called escargot
May 24th is National Escargot Day

Answer 2

That means the Cory hates you and wants to jump at your face when it sees it in hopes of biting it. Snails are a pain in the ***. Keep in mind that a single snail can both place eggs and fertilize them, so a single snail can turn into an over-breeding pest. Breeding snails is relatively easy. They prefer warm water and will happily breed in it. In about 3 months, your aquarium floor will be covered in snails and you won't know what to do with them. Keep in mind that this will only happen if your black moor and fantails don't devour it, which they very probably will do. Snails will eat microscopic organisms in your tank (i.e. Algae) and leftover food. If you want a cool animal that likes cold water as well and will "clean" your tank, consider ghost shrimp. They are by far the coolest little crawlers.

Answer 3

Here's a good site with interesting, non-technical information ...

http://www.manandmollusc.net/

Here's another one:

http://www.arnobrosi.com/pomatia.html

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Answer 4

Here there's lots of info on snails:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail

Good luck!! :)