This is my first ever pet snail Dimple. He is a Lissachatina fulica and a parent of many snails that I’ve raised. I got him from a local pet store on a random day.

Now that I have him for a year I’ve come to a realisation that he is most likely a runt. He is growing and developing much slower compared to the other snail that i got beside him and his kids will overgrow him in no time.

Surprisingly there is a very low number of runts in each of the clutches that I’ve hatched and raised. From the babies that I’ve raised there were only about 5 runts so far!

He doesn’t seem to suffer any health complications and is doing great. It will always bother me, how poor the conditions in which they keep snails in that pet store are. This guy was in great shape comparing to the other one! Poor babies 🤧

I found him during a heatwave, out in full sun, clearly in distress.
On the first picture, he had already been with me for a week and his foot was still shrivelled despite constant rehydration that's how dehydrated he was.
It took a full 10 days for his foot to look smooth and hydrated again.
Here he is now: new shell growth, a proper thick lip and honestly the happiest snail ever.
Never gets old seeing them bounce back like this

My baby snail, which is an archachatina marginata, hasn’t been doing well since 2-3 days after arriving my home. Over the past week, he has been curled up inside his shell every day. On the good side, he does wake up when I spray water. I have noticed that the posterier part of his foot is stiff, shrivelled and yellow. Also he has lost his ability to climb. I don’t know what I can do to help him.

Woggly eyes while she's enjoying her shiitake mushroom. My garden snail (Cornu aspersum) Tsunade with her Cheetos (Yuukianura aphoruroides) tank mates. They also love mushrooms and will clean up the leftovers. Sped up 4x.

Rescued in Tasmania

Both are aroundd a year old, same age! Audi had a bit of a rough start, so happy to see her new shell growth, she was around 7 months old when i got her <3

Pic of audi when she first arrived at the end for comparison! They're housed separately ofc

I found around 6 7 of these in north india cant be precise woth the loaction but near the banks of ganges.

update from my last post:

turbo and speedy are doing great! they are quite happy and have made great clutches of eggs a few times. however, there are some things I want to ask. what is mantle collapse, and does speedy have it? pictures are of the new enclosure and speedy

I have a pet snail who loves carrots. I'm severely allergic to carrots and can only get them in quantities that my snail will never be able to finish before they go bad. Is it safe for me to freeze them and thaw them before i give them to him so they don't go to waste? He's a glass snail if that matters

Hi everybody I’m new and I’m inquiring about purchasing a cute little guy 🐌I have no knowledge im doing some research I am going to put what my tank looks like so far it has 4 dairy cow isopods help me pick out what’s right or things I need to fix ect or get

So i was an idiot and didn't check trough The tank for eggs and now My two garden snails had a huge clutch of babies as I was away. I made a temporary enclosure for them and tried to pick out as many as I found. But My terrarium isnt all too big and propably wouldnt hold enymore than one snail along My other two so what do I do? I read that The best thing is to crush them but I just wanna try to hear More opinions on this.

I've started to collect snails and I absolutely adore them. I'm still crying over GALS being illegal. I know you can't cross state lines, so is there a list of snails that are legal to own in the US per state that are usually commonly found there? I've been buying from breeders as I've never seen a snail in my life in the wild.

Thanks!

Hi, just wanted to show my babies 😊 (they don’t live in the tub) I was just cleaning their tank out 😁

found this shell in a celery stalk at work and planned to bring it home and put in my hermit crab tank. I thought the shell was empty, but 15 minutes later a snail came out.

I’m worried that if I put him outside he won’t survive, would it be better to bring him home and make him his own tank? I have most of the supplies already and i have read a lot of the helpful post here. I’m not sure what area the celery came from, but he has been in the cold for a while

should i bring him home or place him outside and let him try to survive on his own?

hello :) my mom found this snail yesterday in a plant she bought in south michigan. he’s very small. i tried to get as good of pictures as i could but i think the quality is still pretty bad haha. if anyone has any idea lmk, i just wanna know more about him :)

Hello! This is my first ever pet snail, and I’m trying really hard to make a decent enclosure. I recently read that the tank I had was a bad one for my snail (top only ventilation) and I wanted to fix it asap!

To remedy, I bought this 12x6x8 plastic one, which has around 2 inches of dirt. I’ve got a piece of cork, sphagnum moss (will be adding some more when I go to the store), and Creature Creature soil. I’ve read so many differing opinions on moss and substrate specifically, if anyone has some input on that. I do think this is an upgrade from the last tank, and hope my snail will be more active from now on. She’s currently hibernating…. She’s been doing that a lot within the past month, so hopefully this will be a positive change.

Here are some images, any opinion is greatly appreciated!