dead or not dead?

rebeccaraff Archachatina marginata Posts: 21	dead or not dead? Sept 11, 2011 13:27:02 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by rebeccaraff on Sept 11, 2011 13:27:02 GMT How do you tell when a baby snail is dead or not? a few of the babies are really deeply retracted in their shells and I don't know if they are alive ornot! ?

SojMad Achatina iredalei Posts: 122	dead or not dead? Sept 11, 2011 17:26:48 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by SojMad on Sept 11, 2011 17:26:48 GMT Dead snails smell awful, and it's often a lot of fluid in the shell if the snail isn't faced down so it pours down in the substrate instead. But the smell is impossible to miss. If it doesn't smell anything, the snail is still alive.
	A. fulica A. fulica var. rodatzi A. immaculata A. iredalei A. achatina A. albopicta A. reticulata albino L. flammea H. pomatia H. lucorum C. aspersum S. octona P. isabella P. rostrata R. decollata

SnailsPace Achatina immaculata Posts: 212	dead or not dead? Sept 11, 2011 17:37:58 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by SnailsPace on Sept 11, 2011 17:37:58 GMT If they are tiny babies I tend to put them in a pile and see which have moved a few days later
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coyote Archachatina papyracea Cochleas ego amo Posts: 2,955	dead or not dead? Sept 11, 2011 21:22:32 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by coyote on Sept 11, 2011 21:22:32 GMT I go by the odor. A snail will be dead for a while before the odor starts; it is not immediate because it takes a while for the bacteria to build up. I have been fooled many times by a snail I was sure was dead but wasn't.