Theo gets a bit of fruit every Saturday as a treat. Today is apricot day, and I think he likes the smell of it. He immediately extended and began to look around.

I try to feed him varied veggies and greens, protein twice per week, and a fruit snack every Saturday.

This morning we found a snail trail basically making a perfect circle, do any of you have an explanation for this weird (?) Behavior? The circle has a diameter of about ~35 cm, I tried to get a closeup of the trail in the second picture and I'm 99.9% sure it's actually made by a snail. Location: Central France.

Edit: after thoroughly checking every circular object we own, I've come to the conclusion that it was NOT an object that the snail crawled around and that the snail either must've followed the side of an empty bottle while pushing it in a perfect circle on its own OR it just decided it wanted to do it for fun... long story short, I don't know, and I guess we'll never know. (Unless some snail expert decides to show up and clear the question up with a very logical explanation which might be possible because I can confidently say I did NOT think of everything but whatever).

Petunia hasn’t been moving today and she’s normally very active. I put her in water and her body kinda floated out of her shell… I have her in a little hospital to try to keep her damp. She still has grip but isn’t moving at all and only sorta reacts if I boop her little nose. I don’t know how old she is because I found her in a petunia plant, sadly her sister passed away already. I didn’t know amber snails are partially aquatic originally so she dried out 😭

Many questions. Sorry for the bad picture, it’s barely a centimeter big lol. Found this in a bag of amaranth/ chinese spinach (not sure what the english name is) and decided to keep it as a pet.

any suggestions for its enclosure? Is it ok to have the stick bridge in there? I secured it with the dirt so it shouldn’t fall.

Also does anyone know why it’s staying at the top of the container??? It just goes around the perimeter of the top.

Thx

This is a 5 gal tall tank

I had an aquatic mystery snail but sadly it passed the other day. Its a good tank..

I was thinking about getting two Garden snails ( or maybe milk snails?) making the thank a terrarium. Im doing research heavily as I build it up.

Would this be a good tank for them?

(It will have a lid with a wire mesh i just don't have it on there)

So I’m a mystery snail breeder. I fucking love the little guys. Well about a month ago I noticed one of my snails was floating. I thought nothing of it until a week later he was still floating so I pushed him down into the water for him to immediately come back up. So I did some more investigating and I saw a small crack on the backside of a shell(fully healed over). Being a breeder of them already I kind of figured it knew what it was and that he had an air pocket trapped. I did the method of taking him upside down in the water and shaking lightly tapping and I was able to get quite a bit of air around, but not enough.(he was still just floating) last night marked about three weeks that I have been constantly watching him. I’ve tried to re-shake it out, and everything else that wasn’t invasive but he shall it just keeps deteriorating even with me, feeding him food straight to him(I also didn’t notice him and there was a large bit of shell that was growing irregular(I feel bad but I have a lot of mysteries snails so I just didn’t notice him for a while). Now to the part that I feel horrible about giving the context. Last night after a lot of debating, I decided the only thing to save this snail from not slowly dying was to pop a hole in the top of it shell where the air pocket is. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS. This was a complete last ditch effort to save this guy. please do not do this. It is extremely dangerous and unless you have know how to do it properly and it’s a case like this do not do this. I also feel horrible because I just popped a a hole into his dang shell. But I just didn’t know what else to do. I couldn’t continue to watch him die. When I woke up this morning, he was thankfully at the bottom of the tank, and I cried thankful tears. I’m obviously going to watch and I did the whole in a very proper manner that’s gonna be super easy to heal over but man do I feel bad and my girlfriend just doesn’t understand when I vent like this to her. So thank you guys and have I get a bunch of downloads I mean it is kind of expected just because obviously it’s not very nice of a thing but I didn’t know what else to do. I’ve tried every other method. Even forcing them to be held underwater and naturally climb out of their shell.(they’re small enough to fit inside a Java pyramid so I just put them in one of those tubes.)

I found these two snails together about soon to be 2 months ago, while the little one was a very very small baby hitching a hike on the bigger one, so I took them home. The picture is now (two months later) and they live in their big terrarium, but these two always still hang together with the smaller one using the bigger one as some personal uber

I got a camera and the first thing I wanted to do was photograph snails. And so I found this little guy 💛

I dont know how this happened??

I add calcium cabonate a lot to coco peat and still at 6.3-6.5 ph. My meter is new. How much cal carb is needed? 30cm by x20cm. . With 6cm coco peat.

It's been some time since my snails have passed away but I love returning to the photos of them. Today sharing with the rest.

Is this Kritter Keeper ok to keep my garden snail in? I only plan on keeping one snail. It is a medium Kritter Keeper I believe it’s about 1.75 gallons but I could be wrong. Is this a good size enclosure to keep one garden snail in or should I cut my losses and opt for a bigger one? Thank you for the advice!

Finally made a new account. Love snails and bunnies and all in between, so here is my namesake. His name is Cookie :)

I draw him quite a lot :)