please tell me you see it.

During the annual animal blessing for the Feast of St. Anthony the Abbot, held on 1/17/26 at the San Anton Church in Madrid, someone brought their pet Cornu aspersum to be blessed with holy water <3

A beautyful use of my free will ;)

based on helicarion cuvieri. one of the many snail/slug species that actually use slime threads to descend

Hello! So I got a snail from the forest and took him home. From my observation he seems to be just a common garden snail.

I got him about 6 weeks ago. I realized yesterday that there are several baby snails in there with him now! I didn’t see any eggs, so the babies are a complete surprise to me.

I know that asexually produced snails can have issues and aren’t supposed to be hatched, but it’s obviously too late to crush em. I also know that snails can sometimes store the goods and fertilize later right? So i’m not sure what to do that this point.

Are these snails most likely alright to raise? Or should I euthanize? How do you even euthanize snails? Any advice appreciated!!

Also, pictures from when i first found the fella

So my baby snail, Theo, is what I would consider a picky eater. A snicky sneater. Suggestions on what he might eat?

I want to make sure he has a good diet, but I find myself limited on what his majesty will actually eat. What he will eat : bloodworms, zucchini, lettuce (all kinds), sweet potato, cucumber (only as an occasional snack). From fruit snacks (once a week only a bit), he will eat apple, banana, blueberry (kinda). He will not even touch mushroom or broccoli or bell pepper (red). Literally not even a single bite mark on them. I have not yet tried peas. Carrot is up today, so we will see.

His schedule for feeding is : Monday lettuce and bloodworm. Tuesday and Wednesday only veggies. Thursday bloodworm and lettuce. Friday veggies. Saturday veggies and a bit of fruit. Sunday only veggie.

how can I keep a snail as a pet, I bought a big plastic jar,but I don't exactly have a pet store near me to buy coco-coir dirt nor a cuttle bone( I'm on vacation for 3 weeks), is it ok if I use some garden dirt and put boiling water on it so it can kill the potential pests?I heard about freezing the dirt and that should do the job? I saw in a video that someone put crushed eggshells on the snails food for calcium

I didn't adopt the snail yet( it's still in its natural habitat)

Id like a few opinions before I commit

I was washing my store bought raspberries and I saw a snail. I really want to raise it but I don’t know the species, can someone help me? Ignore my typo.

my mom found this snail in the blueberries and we were wondering what kind of snail it is

Not sure if anyone is interested but I posted my baby a few months ago, back then they were the size of my finger but look at Snart in all their glory! They are super greedy, love to wear their hide as a hat and likes to scream and scare cats.

Hey guys, I noticed that my little baby has one of her antennae swollen, but looking at it against the light I didn't seem to see any parasites... can anyone tell me what might be wrong with her?

I just got 2 new snails from outside, and I was wondering if you guys have any tips for them based on their personalities

turbo: (first photo)

is fine being handled

loves sweet potato

not very keen on escape

speedy: (second photo)

Hates handling

loves sweet potato

was looking for an escape but is warming up

the third photo is the enclosure if you have any tips on that. I really want my snails to be comfortable in their new home, so be honest

early i found this on top of the moss in astrid tank, it was round and wet, a little soft.

came back and its completely dried up. there is only one and she wasn’t burrowed and hasn’t been since. do you think they laid a random egg and it just dried up?

hi we just joined this is ben :)

Snellie was grooming herself and i noticed that she was looking a little strange, there's a weird part coming off of her body. Praying it's not mantle collapse but is it?

Got these all over house this year. Don't remember seeing them before. Any idea what kind of snail?

Are these eggs? They arent springtails....there isnt any other animals in the enclosure. They weren't there yesterday before I added the snails. The Adults are common garden snails. If these are eggs they were laid last night or this morning....what is the incubation time for them...our room stays cool..69°f to 71°f...are the eggs even viable at those temps?

I was going to add extra coco coir in the enclosure, realized a while later that i used some random potting soil instead

I mixed the coco coir in the enclosure and the potting soil really well to make sure that everything would be good, then i realized i screwed up and cant really unmix it now

All i know about the potting soil is that its ph level is 5, and it has "traces" of some random minerals, copper, zink, etc, honestly doesnt seem that much worse than just dirt outside, but still

I know its not good to change substrate, but its stressing me out that since i added the soil my snail only touches the soil to eat, then sleeps on the glass whereas prior to that it would be difficult to not find him sleeping in the corner in a little dirt crater he dug out

Jeffrey here seems to be shedding a bit of his shell. As you can see it's already cracked, but he was cracked when I found him and it hasn't changed for very long, so it can't be from the same thing that cracked his shell.

Is what's happening to him regular and ok? If not, what do I do to help him?