Ovum Fell out of her Shell

[cleo]

Hi to everyone,

two weeks ago I had to see something very bad in the tank of my ovums. All of my ovums are active, behave healthy and eat a lot. That morning I saw an offspring-ovum (I got her some months ago from a friend), she was also active and healthy the evening before and now I saw this....







So the snail fell completely out of her shell! The body was still moving, when I was touching it, it was horrible. But why did that happen? Is it possible that the muscles or connective tissue were too weak? I didn't handle her rough or something like that, I don't take my snails out of their tank, only when I have to make a "big cleaning", otherwise they have their peace and quiet in their tank.
One of the users in our German forum told me that she had the same with an immaculata some time ago.
I wouldn't have been that surprised and shocked, if my ovum would have been sick for a while or if there would have been something noticeable to watch, but.....nothing, she was really okay the whole time. Does anyone know why this can happen to a snail?

[eric2]

extreme collapsed mantle?

[cleo]

But it wasn't only the mantle. I think it's like that:

www.petsnails.co.uk/problems/gut_extrusion.html#start

I had a snail before with this guts extrusion, and on petsnail is written, that it's also possible that the guts come out entirely. But....all the other snails in the tank are still healthy and active, like the deceased snail. I use the same soil like I ever do, nothing new in the tank, I really don't know what's the reason for this sickness in this case.

[Arno]

The body is really only attached to the shell with one single(columellar)muscle,so if something happens to that(infection,genetic?)then it slips easily out of it.I've never seen this before,so it's probably a rare thing to happen and nothing you did.

[whodoesntlovesnails]

wow, i have never seen that before. is she still moving? im really sorry this happened 2 ur snail.

-miley

[cleo]

Of course she isn't moving anymore, I took those pics and then I froze her at once, without the shell the snail wouldn't be able to survive.

[Rachel]

sorry about your ovum cleo.
you did the right thing. i have heard of that happen before to someone with many years of snail keeping experience, it was not your fault it stuff like that happens even to the best of us. you might want to sterlise the tank if you have not already, just to mkae sure any illness germs are removed.

[charisma]

Oh my goodness, how horrible and ovums are my favourites too Sorry for your loss

[cleo]

...yes, unfortunately sometimes it's necessary to have nerves of steel, it was a pitiable sight....I had to watch something similar some months ago, when I received my w.c. albopictas, one of them had a gut extrusion shortly after her arrival, right in my hand..!! I was completely shocked, believe me! And in that case I could be sure, that I wasn't doing anything wrong, because I had her only a few hours, before this extrusion happened. The most regrettable thing is.....that it's possible to happen from one healthy minute to the next, no signs of sickness or s.th. like that...
And an incidence like this shows again, that snails aren't explored very well.....we have to live with that.
(Puh....it's not that easy to express myself in English...)

[whodoesntlovesnails]

cleo said:

Of course she isn't moving anymore, I took those pics and then I froze her at once, without the shell the snail wouldn't be able to survive.

i was just wondering, i would have froze her as well.

-miley

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