The Study of Consumption Behavior and Growth of Cyclophorus fulguratus

Abstract

This research aimed to study some biological character of land snail: Cyclophorus fulguratus for
developing into economic animal. Cyclophorus fulguratus were raised in a confinement for 16 weeks
(October 2014 to January 2015), fed with 17 different types of economical foods that are divided into
7 types of mushroom including gray oyster mushroom, Bhutan mushroom, jew’s ear mushroom, golden
mushroom, oyster mushroom, yanagimatsutake, abalone mushroom and 10 types of vegetable including
Chinese cabbage, Chinese kale, false pakchoi, lettuce,cabbage, cucumber, swamp morning glory, pumpkin,luffa acutangula and baby corn.The results showed that lettuce was most consumed by
Cyclophorus fulguratus. In addition, the research studied about the effect of 3 different feeding on
Cyclophorus fulguratus growth (1. lettuces + chicken’s food 2. lettuces + fish’s food and 3. lettuces +
grained grave). The result presented that land snails fed with lettuce + fish’s food had the longest sub
diameter, the highest shell and the heaviest body weight.