My snail has left its shell. What is wrong?
Like turtles, snails are attached to their shells. They cannot leave their shells and live. If the body is out of the shell totally, the snail is dead. A few people have sworn their snail was alive, out of the shell, driving around. It must have been the current in the tank making their body appear to move. Snails cannot live out of their shells. On 1/1/05, I saw a poor, small ramshorn snail in my 40 gallon tank whose shell had basically been destroyed, all except the center. So, here was this live snail who was moving without a full shell. This is not the same as no shell as there was some left (the center) to which his guts were fused. I am sure he will not live long like this. I wonder if this accounts for some of the sittings of snails out of shells who in fact, were not?
