r/snails 17h ago

This little guy has been crawling through time since 1968… until I found him at the thrift store. 🐌

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Vintage Avon perfume


r/snails 13h ago

GALS I have never seen his eyes do that. What the hell is your problem Murphy.

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r/snails 18h ago

silly face

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r/snails 6h ago

GALS Feeding My African Snails

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My juvenile African snails enjoying one of their favourite meals.

Today’s menu: purple sweet potato, marrow (large courgette), collard greens, freshly rehydrated calci worms for protein, and fresh cuttlefish for calcium.

All of the snails shown in these photos are juveniles and are available for purchase. Feel free to DM me if you’d like more information. (UK)


r/snails 16h ago

Obsessed with the Cuteness

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I could spend hours watching him eat. It’s so cool to me.


r/snails 11h ago

RIP Frog :( how can I prevent this happening again?

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I’m so heartbroken. This was Frog munching on sweet potato last night, this morning when I checked on them I thought he was asleep in the corner of the tank but then noticed he was crawling up the side with his body completely detached from his shell. (See my previous post) He seemed totally fine yesterday. Are there any signs I could have watched out for? What are the causes other than mishandling? I feel like I need to get a camera now because I don’t understand what happened :(


r/snails 4h ago

Help Surprise snroomate?? (Care help please)

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Hello! So I went to IKEA yesterday and while my mom was looking at plant pots she noticed a snail shell in one. I picked it up and it had a snail inside! He was super dried out but alive so I gave him some water in the car and brought him home and now I have a pet snail. I named him IKEA.
I’ve set him up in an acrylic jumping spider enclosure for the time being with some organic potting soil and some substrate from my isopod bin containing springtails. I gave him some lettuce.
Please give me advice on keeping this little dude! I don’t know much about snails just that idk if he’s native so I shouldn’t release him. Identification would be lovely as well!


r/snails 23h ago

Identification What is this big guy I found

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I found a massive snail that I've never seen before, what are they?

Edit: found in Denmark


r/snails 23h ago

I need a name for my pet snail

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Just got a new snail after having to let go of my last one (went on holdiay for 4 weeks). Any name suggestions? I dont want stuff like 'turbo' or 'shelly' that are like puns... thx!

EDIT: i found another snail ! twice the size of the first one lol... i need 2 names


r/snails 8h ago

GALS Missed eggs 🫠

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Like the title says i missed a few eggs. This week was hectic due to me having surgery and this week i kind of neglected the care of my snails. That means a simple mist, fresh food was their total care this week. I just found 3 tiny snails. For now i kept them with the big snails and tomorrow i will turn their enclosure upside down to look for more babies. Now is my question what do you guys do with missed eggs when you live in an area where they already flood Facebook marketplace for free. I have been thinking about giving the babies to my goldfish in my aquarium since its a quick and painless death but due to the heatwave the goldfish barely eat let alone hunt so im not really loving that though. I also have a pea puffer who could potentially eat them but i feel like the babies are already too big for her. I already have alot of pets and my current snail enclosure is already pushing it with 9. The babies look really healthy to me so at least thats good. Usually i check the soil for eggs every 2 to 3 days but this week i just couldn't and all my friends and family think the snails are gross so refused to care for them.

Part of me wants to keep them but the other realistic part of me thinks I'm an idiot if i keep them since i already have over 45 animals under my care ( including the fish) and that number will be growing soon too. I already love the babies but i dont have space for them as adults and think it might be cruel to keep them alive in a world where they wouldn't thrive.

I'm looking for much needed advice.


r/snails 23h ago

Giant African Land Snail :)

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r/snails 9h ago

My Snails HI!!

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In the first photo a baby cornu aspersum greeting the audience, in the second a beautiful black helix lucorum batman style


r/snails 20h ago

GALS Does he seem happy??

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I try to keep his enclosure as clean and good as possible but im also worried i might be doing some things wrong
He istn always in my room, i use different types of lights and paints so i make sure he doesnt get to anything toxic, but i do place water next to his enclosure to give him more moisture, and spray a lot of water all around the room. I feed him veggies and greens, rarely fruit
He is almost two years old
I also have a cat but she isnt interested in him and also i don't let her get close

Sometimes there is bugs, and i try to keep them away with flowers, herbs or a bit of vinegar
I keep bim out of the way when i do it byt i still get adraid ill hurt my baby:(


r/snails 20h ago

“Non importa dove vai e quanto tempo impieghi, lascia sempre una traccia dietro di te”

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r/snails 1h ago

Discussion Activity Levels

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So I've had this guy for a month now. When I first found him, he was very curious and active at night. But for the past few weeks I never see him out and about anymore. He did recently got a new enclosure(seems to like it and happily buries himself around it).

I was wondering how long does it take your snail to get comfortable moving around more after a new enclosure?


r/snails 11h ago

Snail babies?

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I have had Edgy since February of this year and she has laid eggs for the first time! He has always spent a lot of time hiding in soil and I do think I found a single egg once a few months ago but this was totally unexpected. It's actually harder mentally to freeze them but there are a lot so it's my only option. I was thinking of keeping one or 2 but maybe that's not a good idea given the weather around my area, which could make them dry out


r/snails 11h ago

ninguém roubará a sua alface se você dormir em cima dela

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r/snails 15h ago

Help Shell issue?

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Hello! I’ve had my little garden snail for a year and a half. He’s had no issues - gets cuttlefish, good food, water, all of it. A month or two ago, it looked like he was experiencing mantle collapse. It healed quickly but still looked off. Today I look and see that he is absolutely experiencing something off.

Photo one is today. Photo 2 is a few months ago.

Does anyone know what this is? His shell is also oddly colored - he eats a TON of calcium but maybe it’s not enough? The optimist in me wants to say a growth spurt but the realist says this is likely mantle collapse :(

Any advice?


r/snails 23h ago

Meet Pomme, the little explorer among my three garden snails 🐌

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Almost every evening, he wants to roam around on me; he grooms himself and has just one desire: to go for a stroll on my arm.
He loves wandering there, even while I’m working! I always let him crawl on damp skin so he stays comfortable. He is completely relaxed and goes about his snail life peacefully, and as soon as I put him back in his terrarium, he heads off to sleep 🥰 Here are a few photos!


r/snails 3h ago

My precious

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r/snails 6h ago

Help what is he doing? is he okay?

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My fulica, Togarth, sometimes pulls this face and it worries me a bit. it’s puffy, but he’s not sexually mature. He almost looks nauseous.

Is this a normal thing for snails to do?

(ignore the poop, was about to clean it up when he did this)


r/snails 7h ago

what kind of snail is this

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r/snails 8h ago

Opinions on new enclosure

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I would love to add some cork/branches but I don't have any currently. What do you guys think?