Table 4.
Percent observed snail mortality. There were five individual snails per food treatment per aquarium (i.e., 1 snail=20%).
| Food type | Feeding frequency | Abbreviation | Experiment 1 (25°C) | Experiment 2 (22°C) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aquarium 1 | Aquarium 2 | Aquarium 1 | Aquarium 2 | |||
| Lettuce | Low | LL | 100 | 100 | 80 | 40 |
| Medium | ML | 0 | 40 | 20 | 80 | |
| High | HL | 0 | 20 | 0 | 20 | |
| Alginate with fish food | Low | LF | 0 | 0 | 80 | 40 |
| Medium | MF | 0 | 0 | 40 | 40 | |
| High | HF | 0 | 20 | 0 | 40 | |
| Alginate with snail mix | Low | LM | 0 | 20 | 80 | 60 |
| Medium | MM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | |
| High | HM | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | |
| No food | N | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 | |
| Total mortality | 27 | 46 | ||||