Same problem with Achatina Fulica I had three months ago

[elska]

Hi there.
I bought my first Achatina Fulica in November and at the beginning she didn't want to eat. After about two weeks she started eating regularly and lately she ate a lot too.
I give her salad, banana, pear, cucumber, zucchini and she seems to appreciate everything.
But lately the same problem popped out again: Creamy doesn't want to eat. She doesn't eat the cuttlefish bone either and she just walks sometimes in her terrarium but the most of the time she is curled in her shell under a piece of wood.
The substrate is made of coconut fiber and I spray water almost every day.
The temperature is around 20 degrees in my house and in the terrarium (which actually is an old aquarium) there is a lamp which I keep turned on (maybe there's too much light?).
She doesn't seem sick to me, she hasn't lost weight and she seems in perfect shape to me.
I also tried to offer her a bunch of dry fish flakes and she ate very few of it...
I'm quite worried I don't know what to think.
The last time she didn't eat it was because she layed eggs but this time is different because she didn't have a partner in months (I bought her during an exposition of reptiles and insects and she was in a tank with other snails so I guessed they mated).
Another thing I noticed (maybe it's not even important) is that she lately has always the love dart (or penis, sorry maybe it sounds stupid but English it's not my mother tongue so maybe I wrote it wrong 😅) exposed... I never noticed it before... if you have any suggestion I will be happy to put it in practice!
Thank you :3

[elska]

Here's a recent picture of her:

http://instagram.com/p/Be6feQTHFip

[blackscorpion]

I don't know anything about fulica, I have regular garden snails. But for a starter, is the light also on during the night? Because snails are most active in the dark, at night it certainly have to be dark. Second, if she laid eggs once, she can lay eggs again. Once they have been "pregnant", they remain pregnant for always (acc. to other people). So no need for a mate. So it can be she has to lay eggs again. And third, I don't know where you are, but here it is winter. And in winter most snails go in hibernation for times. My snails have slept for the past 2 weeks and now active again. So I don't think you have to worry. My grown snails don't spend any time on the cuttlebone either nowadays.

[akinaide]

Feb 10, 2018 7:12:43 GMT blackscorpion said:

Second, if she laid eggs once, she can lay eggs again. Once they have been "pregnant", they remain pregnant for always (acc. to other people). 

I'm not sure it they can be pregnant forever after one mating, they can store sperm from other snails. I don't think it's proven yet that the sperm is stored for some extended time. On the other hand most snails, who are hermaphrodites, can reproduce with their own sperm.

[MelanieChaos]

The light probably isn't necessary, and could be wasting a lot of electricity (and even raising the temp of the tank)! Snails are much more active in the dark. I have noticed that many of mine hide during the day time - then I turn off the lights and mist them a bit and they're all out and ready to play!

[pearthesnail]

Hi there, I keep Fulicas and the light isn't necessary- mine are more active in the evenings and at night so maybe try keeping the light off and see if that changes anything?