Celss nutrition system utilizing snails

The Giant African Land Snail Achatina fulica (Bowdich, 1720) as a Candidate Species for Bioregenerative Life Support Systems

“…Adding snail meat of The requirement to consume iron within the range of 10-12 mg/crewmember day seems to be very strict. The intake of snail meat (118 g/ crewmember day), calculated in our study, is close to the value of 110 g/crewmember day presented in the previous work (Midorikawa et al, 1993).…”

“…In view of saving BLSS resources, inedible plant mass and kitchen wastes could be the best feed base for snails. It is stated that the quality of inedible plant parts available and the quantity of necessary feed for the snails are well matched (Midorikawa et al, 1993). In that regard, our results seem to stand in contrast to that statement.…”

“…Helix pomatia had a more favorable score -88 (Midorikawa et al, 1993). However, this value is less than 100.…”

“…The previous work (Midorikawa et al, 1993) and this work have an identical approach: snail meat was added to a diet and the effect of this operation was estimated. Adding snail meat of The requirement to consume iron within the range of 10-12 mg/crewmember day seems to be very strict.…”

Modeling snail breeding in a bioregenerative life support system

“…Therefore, in BLSS with a high degree of closure, it is necessary to breed animals. In this connection, a line of research on the role of small animals such as silkworms (Katayama et al, 2005;Yang et al, 2010;Tong et al, 2013), mealworms (Li et al, 2013) and land snails of Helix pomatia (Midorikawa et al, 1993) opened up because these animals can normally be contained in a limited space of BLSS. Snail breeding is also considered to be an important help in waste processing as snails are capable of eating the inedible plant biomass.…”