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So he seems a little better. He was fully retracted earlier, but came out of his shell as soon as he felt something change.
I took this video a couple minutes ago. As you can see, there's still a little wobble going on, but not as badly as it was two days ago. I took another video like two minutes later where the wobble was pretty much gone, but unfortunately I can only post 1 video... In case there's a way around it, please share. I've got a couple other videos on this topic I'd like to share for more information.
So to sum it up, he's very active, but is able to retract fully. He still has a slight eye wobble, but not constantly (most of the time he seems fine).
I don't know if this is something I should be worried about or not...
I also have another snail that's been doing weird things.
I intended to add some videos of her in this post as well, but I can't so I'm just going to describe it.
These two are the only ones of my snails that don't have names yet, since they're still pretty young and I haven't found good names for them yet, so it's just gonna be "he" and "she" for now.
These past 2-3 days, I've noticed that she's been moving significantly slower. When she moves, it literally looks like she's moving in slow motion. Like a cartoon snail or something.
This might sound like a silly thing to worry about, but she was moving normally before, and now it's been a couple of days where, every time I saw her move, it was ridiculously slow. If she moves at all...
She's also been doing a lot of "freezing". She's fully out and looks completely normal, like she's just crawling around, except she's not...
I've watched her sit like that a couple of times in the last few days. She's always completely out and looking like she's being active, sometimes her head is even in the air and it looks like she's looking around, but then she doesn't actually look around and just stays in that position completely still. Sometimes for several minutes. It's actually kinda creepy.
When I poke her, she does retract, although I haven't seen her fully retract yet, since I didn't want to bother her too much.
Since both of these started around the same time, I'm actually a little worried now, that there is something bigger going on... Or I just have two very weird snails, I don't know.
Does anyone know about snail health and can tell me if this could be signs of something being wrong?
I just checked on the snails again, and I noticed one of the babys also doing a weird eye bending. Not wobbling, just bending, like they sometimes do when the humidity is too high or something, but only with one eye. That made me think of another snail that did a similar thing with both his eyes going in two completely different directions, but he was mating at the time, and I thought he was just making a funny mating face or something.
All of these things combined kinda make me think that there's actually something wrong... But I have no clue what!
The temperature is around 20°c and the humidity varies between 45-60%. Most of the time it's around 50%.
I feed them regularly with zucchini and sweet potato, and every now and then they get some protein (I make a protein mix with mealworms, shrimps, pea flakes and algae. I crush all of them into a powder and then mix it with water when I feed it to the snails) and nothing has changed in their enclosure.
The only thing I can think of right now, what could maybe be a problem, is that I sometimes have the heater on in my room, and sometimes I don't, so maybe there's sudden temperature changes? But the heater is all the way on the other side of my room, so I didn't think that the temperature changed as much for them. I'll check that later once my room has heated back up.
Any help and ideas would be greatly appreciated!
