Nutrition
This snail feeds by grazing on
small food items surrounding its environment. It will feed on
small softer type plants that do not take a lot of energy to
break up. Theses snails also eat large portions of dead or
decaying plant material. (Johnson 2005) Their preference food is algae. Some people who keep
these as a “pond pet” use them to help keep the growth of
foreign matter and algae levels to a minimum. (Johnson 2005)
Also in ponds and or
creeks where fish our present they will also feed on the fishes
feces or dead fish carcasses