Melodramatic or should I be worried? [solved]

[kristensaurr]

TL;DR? (Key points highlighted in pink)

I have a snail. Helix Aspersa. I consider her a female but whatever. I had been trying to open my snails up to a wide variety of food, and I had some pear, green apple, and uhhh...fiji apple in there. I had left in it there for maybe 2 or three days. Since Monday. The food remained untouched and I was persistent on them eating it. I just changed it today because I found my snail attached to the side of the enclosure.

This this is snail that I had seen mating a few days back, so if you think that may have anything to do with it?

Anyway, so she's attached to the side of the wall but in a...different way. I had never seen this before. She was all the way inside her shell with a weird...thin layer of something around her from the lip of her shell to the wall. I saw this and freaked out. I have never seen them without some part of their bodies sticking out of the shell. So in a panic I gently pulled her off the wall and looked at her. I gently poked her a few times. Nothing seemed to happen. I've never encountered a dead snail before so I didn't know what to look for. She was still moist, she seemed fine? Just all the way in her shell?

I poked her a few more times and didn't know what to do, so I wondered if maybe she was dry it just didn't seem like it to me? So I took the squirt bottle and misted her. Then I saw some movement. Then after a few more mistings and what seemed like an hour, she was out and looking around in a daze.

It didn't even occur to me that she might have been asleep. I immediately thought that maybe she was just thirsty or maybe starving! So in another panic I changed their food to grapes and tomatoes and (because I do not have romaine lettuce at the moment , and I know that they'll eat iceburg) a ton of iceburg lettuce.

So...what do you think was wrong with her? Just sleeping? Is it normal to be pressed into the shell that far? I mean she wasn't all the way back, but her shell was Flat against the wall, except for a little bit that was blocked off by that weird thin film? So strange. I'm feeling better now, I can see everyone running to the food...
She gave me quite the scare.

[morningcoffee]

That's perfectly normal. When I kept helix aspersa, they would do that all the time. The film seems to be something that they produce to stick themselves firmly to a wall or surface so that they can retreat back into their shells slightly.

By the way, I find it really hard to read the text when it's constantly changing from red to white. Could you maybe write in one colour only in the future? It'll make it much easier to read through

[kristensaurr]

Is that any better? Sorry. I come from a very active forum background and the people would get all rage if you wrote something that was too long and spam you with "TL;DR" (too long, didn't read). And from that I have adopted the highlighting method. Especially since this is a help forum where I really want people to read it and give me advice, you know? I know you guys aren't like that it's just a trait I've aquired

Thank you so much. It is now clear to me that I was being more than a little bit melodramatic. She's probably all pissed off now

[ness]

Aw it's nice that you care so much for your snail's welfare

Yes it all sounds normal. These snails do indeed stick themselves to the side of walls, plantpots, or what-ever, with hardened slime. It's not a problem.
They will also take long rests from time to time. I have one (just the one, - I hope to find him a mate some day), and he will rest like this for a few days, have active days where he'll eat plenty, and rest again for a while. I find misting the tub will often wake him up, without having to pick him up, but I don't mist him every day on the basis that in the wild it wouldn't rain every day. He's strong and healthy, so I have no worries when he has his sleepy days.