badly injured apple snail

This morning I found my apple snail on the floor behind the tank with a badly broken shell. She must have crawled out last night because I saw her in the tank yesterday morning. I put her in quarantine and she has not moved. The shell is caved in about the size of a dime, plus a crack runs all the way around the shell. I read about repairing the shell with super glue on applesnail.net but it's pretty bad.

I am really upset, Carl is my favorite snail and I've only had her about a month. The opening she crawled through is small and I was just reading a post about snails getting out and someone using press and seal to cover openings. I am so disappointed in myself I just wish I would have covered that spot. Maybe my mistake can be a lesson to someone else... seal those openings.

RIP Carl

RIP Carl

Carl's favorite things in life were romain lettuce, blood worms and algae tablets A big snail with an adventurous spirit, she could often be seen scaling fake plants too flimsy to support her weight. She would slime all the way to the top, or until it toppled over. Carl died on 6/20/08 while on a land reconnaissance mission. She will be missed. Carl would want to be remembered as a defender of mollusk rights, seeking bigger tanks and more keeper education for snails everywhere.