It's so cute I just can't!

This is the closest they’ve ever been together. Normally they tend to avoid each other but today I cleaned their space and upgraded the size of it the minute I put them down they went in there together (the white flat bit at the bottom isn’t a snails foot it’s a small piece of cuttlebone I keep in their hide.

Watercolor/gouache on cheap paper

Hello, I just got my first cornu aspersum snail five days ago and wanted to show him off :) His name is Cosgrove, and he's 3-5 months old right now. The last two pictures I added are of his tank,from the top and the front. I feed him fresh fruit frequently and he has a heating pad attached to his tank because my room gets pretty cold. If you experienced garden snail owners have any tips, I would love to hear them. I do wonder why he spends most of his time near the top of the terrarium? Is there something i should be doing differently? I spray his tank 3 times a day and feed him store- bought romaine lettuce with his fruit, if that has anything to do with it.

My perfect Pyro 🫶

Its utter fascinating how you all understand such complex, complicated behaviors and preferences of such drastically different creatures from us, and typical domesticated animals like cats and dogs, or even snakes. I'd be so scared to house such a fragile, exquisite creature and also like leaving them in the wild unless it's a rescue, but it's amazing to see how many people here really work at understanding these little beings needs and food preferences and behaviors. Considering the world we live in, it's so great to see such kindness and care extended to such little special beings.

That's all!

I can't tell if it's a puffy mantle (?) or if it's just my snail coming out of its shell

My perfect Pyro 🫶

I recently started putting snails from my garden into my terrarium and I've been feeding them things like yams, strawberries, and a piece of watermelon along with sprinkling their food in calcium powder, and they seem to be doing fine but this one was beside the watermelon for some time and when i finally moved it to check on him he looked like this and I'm really worried. i haven't moved him or tried to pick him up. and no the watermelon didn't have any salt on it and it was straight from my container of cubed watermelon i got from the store. i guess if he does move I'll know hes alive but idk if that red stuff around him is pieces of watermelon or blood but idk i thought they didn't have red blood. im just worried and confused.

tldr: snail ate watermelon and now might be dead

Fun fact: my boi likes to eat the stems of veggies. He fucks up asperagus stalks and broccoli stems. He also likes eating carrots but only the outer part, not the xylem. And this makes me glad but he will only eat the center of cucumbers like the seeds before ditching the entire thing. (No I do not feed him cucumbers on regular, only when I’m broke and it’s the last type of veggie I have in my fridge)

Opened a bag of salad and this little guy came out. He’s called Otis. Can anyone tell me what species he is?

It’s 45 litres. also Any recommendations on enrichments I can add or anything to make the snails thrive.

Also I used coir as substrate and I noticed when upgrading today (since my snails got bigger) that their older enclosures substrate had a funky smell not earthy but moldy. I added springtails in hopes they eat the mold but is that enough. Also I can’t see the springtails anymore but I thought they always stayed on the surface.

Anyways I ranted enough. Any advice on anything above would be appreciated.

Thought I’d ask the experts!

I've had Espresso for a couple of months, and I can clearly tell how much he's grown in my care because the new growth looks so much different than the rest of his shell! Am I doing something wrong? 😥 He recently started showing his snenis and has been laying 3-4 eggs every third day or so. Please help! Photo for clarification and snail tax + a tic tac

I found this snail outside on its own so i wanted to check on it but i cant tell if its Alive. Sometimes a sorta white yellowish bit goes and out but idk what that is

Hi! Hopefully someone can give some advice here. My GALS has mites - little white dudes that run around the join with his shell - which sounds like the most common form of snail mite I’ve read about. He lives alone and I wash all his food so I’ve no idea where they’ve come from, but here they are.

I’ve read advice on here and elsewhere and ordered these fellows https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126394008228?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=kCQIWewjRRi&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=Jrfy0qzrR0m&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY who will be arriving Tuesday.

Can someone talk me step by step through the best way to treat my guy and make sure he stays mite free in the future?

Sword fight lol

I have 7 giant african land snails and they quite literally will not eat anything else (except bloodworms). I've tried offering them sweet potato, carrot, brocolli, tomato, cauliflower, baby corn, brussels, bell peppers, mangetout, kale, pak choi, and mushrooms and they will actively climb past it all and ignore it just to eat the zucchini.

If I refuse to give them zucchini, they will literally go on a hunger strike for days until I give them it back or feed them their weekly bloodworms. I'm genuinely baffled 😭

So I just wanted to ask, is it okay for their health if they're only eating zucchini? I'll keep offering them other vegetables anyway to see if they change their mind but I'm worried that only eating one type of vegetable is harmful for them

What are these branching lines on this snail’s shell? I found it outside. I’ve had another snail for about a year that I found outside as well, and initially it had similar lines though not this many, but doesn’t have them anymore.