Post by sneel on Jan 5, 2020 7:16:41 GMT
My beloved snail (common garden snail in Europe) has to deep retraction syndrome. He does not respond to stimuli and barely moves. He refuses to eat. He is very deeply retracted inside his shell but his body (mainly the tail, I can't see his head) is hanging out limply. I was away for the holidays(I took him with me but I didn't have time to check much on him i just wettened his cabbage) and have changed his cabbage only a few times. He had a cabbage leaf in his box but since he didn't eat it all I thought that maybe he would eat it later? He loved eating cabbage and it was a resilient leaf and didn't wither away quickly wich is wy I chose to give him that. I was so busy that I thought he was sleeping or something since previously he was always awake and active so I was glad he was resting. But then when I came back home he wound move at all and didn't respond to me touching him he just wouldn't wake up or eat. I think he got this because he was malnourished poor little buddy I loved him so much. I set him free, since its the winter I hope he will just go into hibernation and be at peace.
Is there any way I could have fixed him before I set him free?
Is there any way I could have fixed him before I set him free?
I recently had 5/9 of my Cuban brown snails pass away from deep retraction syndrome, unfortunately I can’t release mine since there’s no way I snail could survive where I live. Deep retraction syndrome is difficult to deal with and there isn’t too much information on it so there’s not much you could’ve done except for trying to rebuild energy over time, but even that rarely works.