I want your pest snails to feed my snakes! :)

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I've thought about farming both terrestrial snails and terrestrial slugs, but they're actually a bit more difficult to do than I thought they were.

The common brown garden snails and slugs appear to be mellow and unassuming creatures, but they're actually aggressive and cannibalistic. It's just difficult to fathom because they move so slow. This is one of the biggest problems with heliculture.

The other problem is, depending on the species of snails or slugs, they have varying degrees of hardiness. I've found Grove Snails to be very difficult to keep in captivity for any reasonable length of time for some reason. While the Common Brown Snails are extremely hardy, and will even go dormant when conditions are not ideal.

Triggering them to breed is another challenge. I haven't figure out how to do that.

Snails and slugs are also not very tolerant of dirty enclosures. They die very easily because of this. In order to keep snails alive, you've gotta keep due diligence just like with any exotic pet.

I'm only distantly aware of the fact that there may be escargot farms (snail farms) in Europe. In America, because so many people get grossed out by the thought of eating a snail as a delicacy, I'm not aware of any here, or if there are any, they're quite rare.

If there should be any snail farms out there in the US, I'm not even sure they'd be willing to open a small account for someone in need of snails on a small scale. Now, if I said I owned a French themed restaurant and would like to carry escargot on the menu, it may be a different story...