I have slugs and snails in this enclosure it has some problems with water at the bottom but I'm slowly draining the water and the water smells like shit literally but the enclosure doesn't smell it smells like a forest but the worms they look like pinworms should I get rid of them and if so should I change the enclosure I have a good plan to change the enclosure and not taking the worms with by like luring them out with some high value food and moving all 40-50 slugs and snails slowly until non come to the food any more

Told a friend who is studying biology about my newest acquisition (a little Lissachatina fulica) and he told me immediately that I have to kill him.
He said that this kind of snail transmits diseases and that I should basically burn him to death and bury him in salt.
I’m aware that snails can transmit diseases and carry parasites, but I wash my hands and sanitize everything after I touch him (which I basically never do).
Am I still at risk even taking all these precautions? Do I really have to kill him?

We’re in Brazil by the way, so Lissachatina fulica is invasive here. I wouldn’t release him anyways.

i woke up this morning to what i believe is snex ( correct me if i'm wrong )
have a few questions ! is that a love dart i see ? also one of them is clearly bigger than the other , i assume he's older right since he has the lip & the other one doesn't? will they both lay eggs? since one is younger, will it not be able to lay eggs? how long can i expect until they lay eggs?

Noticed a few mites on her yesterday and ordered some predatory mites which whould arive next week.

Long story short. I found a baby snail in one of my indoor potted plants (a string of pearls succulent) and felt really sorry for it and couldn’t bring myself to throw it outside in the heat of Southern California, so I’ve been taking care of it. I’ve had these types of common snails before so I knew what to expect.

But all of a sudden yesterday I found these two teeny tiny snails. Sorry for the shaky video but it’s really hard to get a close up of something so tiny. Even when the cornu aspersum snails hatch, they aren’t this small. My original baby snail is in one of the pics for size comparison—he’s smaller than the eraser on a pencil—he’s a few weeks old at this point. I also found that he had those little clear balls (on the leaf) on him, but I don’t think it’s an egg as there doesn’t appear to be anything inside it. And he’s way too young to produce eggs.

I’m so perplexed by this whole thing. I had actually thrown one of those tiny “shells” into my compost already but when I saw the one clearly moving around, I retrieved it and definitely observed both of them moving around. Now I have no idea what I have!

I found this little plant in my new tiny vivarium for my Subulina octona snails, which I just bought last week. I'm very impressed that it already grew so big, because usually my big GALs need 2-4 days to completely tear a living plant apart. So I'm very curious whether the plant will manage to grow even bigger, or if a tiny snail army will beat it up...who knows..

don't worry lil guy, Smelly's eggs are not your progeny.

Like the title says, just sharing my babies’ growth. The main one pictured is Hephaestus. Day one (not of birth, but when I got him) vs now.

I started with 5 tiny babies. Hephaestus, Pancake and Jorge are still here and thriving beautifully (the other two unfortunately were runts and had shell problems).

Jack is the youngest out of the three garden snails I have—by, “youngest,” I mean by a few days as I just found him recently. He’s currently munching on his cuttlebone.😊

The difference a year makes !!

I found this snail in Southeast KS, it’s very tiny it’s also a landsnail, its flesh is like yellow and mostly translucent.

hi folks, just looking for some advice as I've noticed this unusual protrusion from my snail's mouth. This is an achatina fulica jade. Apologies if the photos aren't the clearest but it was quite hard to photograph.

I initially thought it was some big piece of substrate due to it appearing very thin & irregular but it has not moved in a few days. I've read about gut extrusions and similar things but this doesn't quite look like those.

Would really appreciate any info on this, thanks!

I have this 240 litre tank with a single African land snail inside that i rescued and i would love to add to the tank is there anything that could coexist beside him ? Its a very large tank and costs nearly 2 grand 🫠 so would love to have it a little more interactive i was thinking possible stick insects but i wouldnt want him to be harmed on the bramble etc.

Should I be worried about this?

Snailtholomew living life

Previous tank as last pic! I wrongfully thought I had what I needed when I started and I upgraded with advice from everybody!!! I hope my snails will be happier. They even have a 24/7 daylight cycle LED now!!!

Found in MA if that helps

Little guy eating

I went to feed my snails and found one like this. Is it too late? I took our class pets home over the summer. I don’t know how to explain to the kids I killed their pet 😭 (no smell)