r/snails

I’m curious where everyone got their pet snails? Origin stories?? Please post your snail in the comments with how you came to acquire lil bro.
My snail is named Salmon, it was an 83 degree day and I was strolling thru the parking lot by my apartment complex. On one of the plastic caution dividers where they were filling potholes, Salmon was drying out and there was hardly any vegetation around :( I tried to find her a safe spot by a river, but after I set her on a leaf my heart started aching as I walked away 😭 So I took her home, immediately got resources from the store, prepped her ecosystem, misted that thang, and provided Salmon with the biggest salad a snail has ever seen. She ate so much carrot she turned orange and she was CHONK, then proceeded to shit 10 times (so we discovered her favorite food is carrot lmao) and Salmon is now hydrated, glowing, & thriving on that cuttlebone 🐌

i just came back from work and saw that my snail had this weird dry-ish layer around him, it came of easily but theres still some left around his butt (i think)

i was genuinely so afraid he dried up or something but i woke him up and he was okay.. but what the hell is it? should i remove it?

edit: he is now eating it?? is it an inmune system thing??

This buddy has been munching on his own shell for the last couple minutes. Is it just a self cleaning act or is it because of malnutrition?

He feeds mostly on cucumber and is free to snail wherever he wants in my apartment. He always gets back to his bowl though

It was around 2022? Or 2023? Maybe. Cannot remember. It was spring-summer and we were chilling in the woods and being fascinated by the wildlife.

hello! I wanted to share my experience of the first two months of caring for my snails. TW: I get emo

My mental and physical health has been declining over the past year (chronic illness sucks). It's been hard to take care of myself recently and even harder to find reasons to get out of bed.

After adopting my two little guys, it was like something shifted. It made me realize how there is no real limit to love, regardless of size. I can chose to love my little buddies, and that love matters even though their lives are so much smaller in comparaison to ours.

It's really easy to feel like caring is futile; everything feels too big and too small at the same time. But over the past two months of learning to take care of these two little organisms who are quite fragile, I found myself caring so much. They can bring my focus back to the real world, not in spite of, but because of their 'smallness'. I never imagined myself being able to care about something as 'simple' as a snail (I've never been a big snail guy), but somehow, almost on accident, I think of these guys all the time. They make me feel like it's all worth caring about.

(Photo was done two days prior to me finding out Hol Horse was pregnant in this https://www.reddit.com/r/snails/s/OjmEkAb4D8 post)

So I found Primm a couple weeks ago at work and brought him home.
Today at work, they found another snail and instead of killing it, my coworkers came to me and asked me if I wanted to bring it home so I said of course!

Anyway, there is a huge size difference between the two. I have them in separate enclosures right now, but was wondering if it’d be possible to put them in one. Or if they’d even enjoy a companion? They’re both Cornus.

Pics for size

Primm is huge and my new buddy is like a quarter of his size.

When I picked up my first snails a little over a month ago, I picked up these little ones with brownish shells and bluish or grayish skin, I thought they were garden snail babies but they don't grow, nor do they show interest in fresh vegetables. I just read that they are carnivorous but I have no idea what to give them, my mom told me to release them But I don't want them to die, so could you help me build them a good terrarium, tips on how to get them food, worms in my own garden of course, or as my mom said, is it better to let them free? ૮( ᵕ̩̩ - ᵕ̩̩ c)ა

i accidentally let her loose today and she just decided to climb my microphone

salmon fkn loves carrots

Hey guys, my sister and I found a pretty sick snail but we don’t know the type or how to properly take care of a snail.

All comments are helpful and appreciated:)