Pet snail - advice needed please

[maisie]

We rescued a garden snail from a bag of kale back in February. He had a crushed shell at the time and I thought he would die but I put him in a tupperware pot with some damp kitchen roll and some veg to eat. He was a very small snail but has since grown into a full size snail and been thriving. We then decided to do some research and upgrade his home (we are now quite attached, as is our daughter to the little guy and we didn’t want to put him in the garden through fear he didn’t know how to survive on his own). Anyway, we upgraded his home to a nice new viv, added substrate and things to climb etc. Since then he seems to not be very active at all, stays on the ceiling of the tub most of the time. Only when we spray him with water does he come out of his shell, have something to eat and then goes back to where he was. We thought we would try putting him back into the smaller container to see if that helped at all but he still seems very quiet, doesn’t come out very often for food etc. Sometimes it looks as if he is sealing himself up but then you can spray him with some water and he comes out, has food etc and seems fine for a while. We’ve also tried moving the location of the tub he lives in but that seems to have no effect either.



Really not sure what we are doing wrong. Any advice appreciated. Our toddler loves this snail and I would hate to be responsible for killing the poor little guy, we’ve really been trying our best to look after him.