I found a snail with a crushed shell!

[inky]

Hi! I was out in town due to celebrating Australia day! The fireworks were great! Anyway, when we were trying to find our car, I found a cute little snail. It's definitely not a helix of any kind! It's kind of cute! But then I got worried. When I took him off, his shell seemed wobbly. On VERY close inspection, I saw his shell was crushed. I looked at it and to my horror, I was pushing the shell in a bit! I felt horrible for crushing his shell a little bit, so I took him home (He hibernated on my hand XD) and put him in a tank. Obviously not with my bigger aspersa snails! With a shell like his he'd be crushed in an hour! Anyway, I don't even know what he is. Help would be useful. I'll post pictures tomorrow, it's late right now. I feel so horrible for helping crush his shell =( It looked a bit like he'd already taken a beating, but I made it crack a bit. I feel a bit grossed out right now too =/ People at the fireworks were drunk and fighting a lot D= I'm not going into details. Help would be appreciated! I'm just so worried for him! Also, post some names you think would suit him when I get pictures up! He's very cute! He's a tanned colour with little to no patterns. He has light-ish skin, so I'm hoping to get more in case he has the albino gene!


Still feeling bad about crushing a snail shell by accident,
Geckonator
PS: My other snails are cuddling up! They're hibernating next to eachother! It's so cute!!


Update: He's named Tiny.

Update: He's lost at least 3 of his whorls. I don't think he'll make it.

Update: He's doing very well! I looked closer and his body is only just showing from the whorls! He's also discovered the roof of his tank... Yeah, that scared me. He's lucky I'm keeping him, he's stinking my room up! I'm gonna clean his tank soon! (You know, with gas mask and oxygen tank) He's doing great! Tiny says hi! Baffbot, Pickles, Penelope, Patches and Rainbow are stuck to the sides of their tank, hibernating, so no comment from them!

Update: I cleaned his tank out, apparently soggy fishfood of that kind smells HORRIBLE. But he's still going strong! I'll get pictures asap, he's just stuck to his tank Apparently he's a bit too big to go in his own shell, he always hangs out a bit. And he's not eating. I'm gonna try to soak him in calcium soon if this keeps up. Now the tank doesn't smell so horrible! But I know why my fish tank does...

Update: He's really not eating, but I can't take him down! I don't wanna crush the shell!


UPDATE: I think he has a paper thin shell. I tried moving him gently and it cracked a bit.

[pinkunicorn]

Cuttle to the rescue! He should be able to fix it if given time and enough calcium. I saw a snail fix a shell that lost half of its size. Or saw a picture of the result to be specific. It looked funny but it was fixed. He'll make it if his internal organs are ok of course. But only time will tell. Take good care of him, as little handling as possible.

[inky]

Thanks unicorn! He's certainly looking a lot better this morning, he slimed up to the top of the tank and I thought he somehow escaped! I had to use a fish tank, which has a huge gaping hole in it! =/ I had to put some stuffing on top of it XD I guess he came out of hibernation!

[ness]

Oooh good luck with Tiny and well done for rescuing him. I'll be interested to see the pictures.
Hope you manage to identify him. I remember tryng to use a search engine to look up Australian snail species and couldn't find many.

Can I ask where abouts in Aus you are?

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I'm south australian. He's a tiny brown snail! about 1 cm! I named him Tiny just for that. I'm gonna look him up, he's defo not a helix aspersa.

[inky]

Tiny is pulling through from his roof-fall accident! Feeling hopeful! He also seems to have recovered from me crushing him slightly... He's doing great!

[ness]

That sounds hopeful. The main danger is from a snail drying up, but if the internal membranes holding it's organs are intact then the snail stands a better chance, and hopefully this is the case here.
Thanks for the update
x

[inky]

You'd be surprised how many things came up that were wrong. I think I minused out 39 or so words and still nothing! Maybe he's a crossbreed?

[coyote]

The odds are slim he's a crossbreed. Glad he's improving, though.

[inky]

True. But he was near a house, he might have been released? Anyway, I got a few pics, posting in a minute

[saki114]

Sorry 2 be a bother, but whats the update??? *fingers crossed *

[inky]

Lol I left it for a while, noone posted. He's healthy now. At least I think so. I don't dare hold him, but he has the strength to go fully in his shell again!

[PennyFarthing]

That's great news!

[saki114]

Yayyyy! Long live Tiny!!!!!

[ness]

Great news. Thanks for the update

Did you ever get a positive ID on Tiny?

[inky]

Nope. My family think he's a mutation or a crossbreed. I did stuff in google that minused stuff like white, citrus, boat, lizard, fly, etc etc. But I did a LOT. So yeah. GOOD NEWS! I got an apple snail! MY DESTINY IS FORFILLED.

[saki114]

Lol! Congrats on getting the apple snail and FULFILLING yer destiny lol

[inky]

=D All my fish and snail have english names. Bob, Spike, Jeffery, George, Basil and Jeffery is the apple snail.

[PennyFarthing]

Nice choices! What colour is the apple snail?

[inky]

He's a goldie. Jeffery is pretty large right now.

[saki114]

Cool!