Soil wetness

[glittersniffer]

How wet do you actually keep your soil, like pictures of your tank because saying damp but not soaked could be interpreted many ways.

I've had my snails for quite a while now and they're perfectly happy, though they don't spend as much time on the soil and more time stuck to the castle or pots and such. They do however love the Moss which is usually a lot wetter.

I was wondering if its simply because they like hanging that way or because the soil isnt wet enough.

I don't like drowning the soil bcause it begins to smell and instead just drips to the bottom of the tank making the bottom soaking and the top looking dryer.

Pictures anyone?

[crossless]

Hmmh.. I keep my peat so moist that when you take some in your hand and squeeze and open it substrate stays in shape in some kind of lump looking thing. While squeeze it little water can come out but not too much put if you have some species that needs really high humidity it's wise to them add more water to it than just what I usually do, so you don't need then too often moisture soil.

I'm this evening planning to moisture my snails peat. I could take few pictures about it for you of the soil and when it's squeezed in hand what it looks like.

I usually moisture once week after peat surface starts to dry out.

[fluffy]

It depends a lot on the snails you keep.
My snails have different needs.

Fulica and megalobulimus just need the soil humid, not soaking wet,
but tinctas want a lot more moisture.

What kind do you keep?

[coyote]

Using a relative humidity gauge in the tank can help take away a lot of guesswork.