Help! I dropped my snail.

mel_20_20

mel_20_20

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I was doing a water change and got my mystery snail out to look at her shell, she has a fissure and I've been making snail jello with high calcium content so I wanted to get a closer look to see how she's doing.

I had her in my hands, rotating her, and dropped her accidently from a height of somewhere between 4 to 8 inches onto a saucer that I used when pouring water back into the tank after the water change.

I was holding her, hovering over a rubbermaid dishpan and stupidly had left the saucer in the dishpan. She hit the saucer on her back, probably further back up on the shell away from the fissure.

There doesn't seem to be any damage, but I put her in a breeder trap in the tank, and she is on the side of it and hasn't moved since I put her there. I put snail jello in there with her but she isn't going for it.:(

Does an impact itself, i.e., the jarring effect, cause injury internally? We humans might get a concussion from such an impact, is this possible with snails. Sorry if that's a stupid question.

Her fissure looks unchanged, which was a relief. I was so afraid it would have worsened from the impact.

Do I need to be worried, which, of course, I am.:nilly:
 
she should be okay. she is probably just scared. i had my snails tank up high in a cabinet before, one of them climbed out(duh, i shoulda had a cover on it!) Anyways, it fell about 5 and a half feet to the ground, smashed it's shell and lost one section off the top of it's shell and about a quarter inch off the opening. it's still alive, and doing fine. it's shell is still growing although it has a hole in it, it doesn't seem to mind. the end where it broke off by the opening is thinner now, but it is growing back. when i found the poor thing, it had already walked halfway across the room and left a gross slime trail on the carpet.
 
well, never tried it on a snail, but superglue is a marvelous product. im sure the jello route will work over time, but in a pinch, dry her shell and apply layers of super glue over it. its water safe after it dries, and safe internally when dried
 
Thanks for the help guys... I'm sure it scared her. I just looked in the breeder trap and although she still hasn't moved, she had pooped a crapload.
 
I would just turn off the lights and let her get over her fright. It happens to all of us at some point! I am sure she will be ok :)
 
Now she is on the floor of the trap and has closed up. I hope she's going to be ok....what can be going through her poor little tiny brain.... (oh I know, not much.... but it doesn't hurt to try to imagine some kind of pomacea pondering, I just hope it's not "she's trying to kill me")
 
Thanks guys. Jinksie, this is the same picky snail that I've been worring over for the longest, and you helped me with... and now... I drop her. That poor little thing.
 
I hope she is okay Melody!
 
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