Hello all you fellow snail nerds!
I love these creatures and hope to make my living with their help. I don't know if any of you are gardeners, but a bag of worm castings is a lot of money. So I basically want to produce snail compost here as a green industry. I'm doing my preliminary r&d right now. Water here is. Clean and abundant. I obviously need to source the food for the creatures and begin small scale trials to record the conversion rate.
I pick apple snails because they are worm water and thus have a higher metabolism and therefore eat more faster.
I guess my first questions for you experts are "what dont they eat?" and "what species do you think best suited to the task?"
Meat and the pet trade are two income sources besides compost, but they come naturally from having thousands of munching apple snails!
It is funny how most of the posts here caution would be farmers that apple snails eat and poop a LOT, because that is exactly what I'm counting on!