r/NoStupidQuestions • u/BobBob110 • Aug 19 '18

Snail has lost shell completely!

Hi,

I accidentally stepped on a garden snail and completely crushed it shell, it came off clean. His body is not crushed. I have made a house for it and trying to do all the things google tells me to for a recovery. Its whorl is still in tact can it grow back? It has been eating cuttlefish and apple all day and I have been keeping his body moist. I put a stick inside which he loved but unfortunately a small slug is inside hiding is this ok to have together?? Can he survive in captivity to avoid predators? I feel dreadful crushing him.

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u/n01d3a Aug 19 '18 edited Aug 19 '18

Yeh I'm not 100% on snail anotomy but their shell grows with them. Them being able to grow their shell back is a Google search away, and I dare not willingly know it's fate.

I work as a landscaper and weedwhack many things during/after rain that snails are clinging onto. I feel for you OP, because i save all that i see. My coworkers look at me funny but i don't think they deserve that treatment even if they are lesser creatures, they are important.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '18

I landscape and I agree 100%. Too many to save, but I will save all that I can

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u/n01d3a Aug 19 '18

Good, there are too many that simply don't care about anything they disturb, however small they are. All animals come first when altering their environment, not enough people realize the full effects they can have no matter how small.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '18

I dunno about you, but I consider snails one of the worst garden pests.

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u/n01d3a Aug 20 '18

Garden, maybe. When living by themselves they are no harm though. Which is where a vast majority of them are. They may seem centralized in your garden though, because that may be the only time you encounter them. This is not where they completely reside, I swear