Post by GailTheSnail on Oct 29, 2023 9:50:48 GMT
Hey everyone, the strangest thing is happening to my poor garden snail Rapunzel and I don’t know what it is.
About a month ago I noticed she had some rot along the edge of her foot and tail. I’ve had some snails have this before and they usually ate it off or ignored it and it was fine. However they were a lot older than her, she’s only about 6 months old.
Then her mantle started changing, it’s like marbled, not an even color. Then today she fell at some point, she was upside down in her shell when I found her so I turned her over and put her in her food tray. About 2 hours later she wakes up and at first she looked fine but then it looked like the weight of her shell was crushing her body. Like she looked melted or deflated. It’s gotten progressively worse over the last hour and she released a large amount of liquid out of nowhere- it’s clear not yellow which is good but it’s still very strange.
I feel so bad I don’t know what’s going on or how to help her. I have her separated so I could watch her but now I’m not sure if what she has could be contagious so I’m thinking of keeping her out but in my experience they don’t recover quickly if at all when removed from their home environment so I also don’t want to upset her unnecessarily.
Anyone know what this may be and what I can do? I added pics below. Thank you
Here she is about 10 minutes after I took the first pics. Her body is still blob-like but less so and her eyestalks are a bit more pronounced but still not coming out.
About a month ago I noticed she had some rot along the edge of her foot and tail. I’ve had some snails have this before and they usually ate it off or ignored it and it was fine. However they were a lot older than her, she’s only about 6 months old.
Then her mantle started changing, it’s like marbled, not an even color. Then today she fell at some point, she was upside down in her shell when I found her so I turned her over and put her in her food tray. About 2 hours later she wakes up and at first she looked fine but then it looked like the weight of her shell was crushing her body. Like she looked melted or deflated. It’s gotten progressively worse over the last hour and she released a large amount of liquid out of nowhere- it’s clear not yellow which is good but it’s still very strange.
I feel so bad I don’t know what’s going on or how to help her. I have her separated so I could watch her but now I’m not sure if what she has could be contagious so I’m thinking of keeping her out but in my experience they don’t recover quickly if at all when removed from their home environment so I also don’t want to upset her unnecessarily.
Anyone know what this may be and what I can do? I added pics below. Thank you
Here she is about 10 minutes after I took the first pics. Her body is still blob-like but less so and her eyestalks are a bit more pronounced but still not coming out.
