Bathing & Substrate

[Miranda]

Can someone actually tell me how to bath snaills(preferably in photo steps) mine are fulicas 5cm long and 2cm high and wide,i have them in about 5mm high of water in an icecream lid, can it be deeper, i use and old smooth toothbrush to brush their shells gently, they do come out alot quicker ,but what about this 'swimming' motion described in this thread:http://petsnails.proboards3.com/index.cgi?board=behavior&action=display&n=1&thread=1515
its the 4th one down by miracai, also do snail actually crawl along soil, cos ive never sen my snails do it,

[Moracai]

You will want to use warm shallow water, no deeper than their breathing hole. I use a cat litter tray. Sometimes I just run warm water from the tap, just a gentle flow, and holding them in my hand I catch water with my other hand and dribble it over them.
Their pool in their tanks is just very shallow water in a glazed ceramic dish,and bury the bowl in their subtrate up to the rim so they can just glide straight from subtrate to water.
Sometimes they like to just sit in the water, even sleep in it. it's not unusual to find more than one crowding into the dish at the same time.

[Miranda]

thanks! but where is the breathing hole

[snailshell2411]

it is under the shell at the side of the body if u look it will open and close when i try 2 look at mine it takes a min or so to open up so wate a bit