Urgent Apple Snail Help - Crushed Up Shell!

[jasminekiddell]

Hi,
Tonight i didnt notice my apple snail on the floor and dont know how he got there but i had stepped on him, all his shell is crushed most of its come off just he still has the little end bit with the shell point bit but this is fragile, i thought he was dead and this happened about 5 hours ago, i just looked and i went towards his face and his tentacle went in, then came back out. Hes still alive, so i cut a small bit off a see-through plastic file and put it around his middle and frotn secton whwere the shells gone and i put a little elastic band around that to hold him together a bit. Is there any chance his shell should grow back and he'll be ok? OR should i put him out of his misery because it wont grow back? If so, how do i euthanize him? Or if his shell may grow back, how can i help it grow back? (any meds or anything?)
thankyou!

 

[eschaton]

You can fix a crushed shell with aqua-mend or something of the sort. It will never look quite right, but he'll survive.

He probably won't if you don't do it though. Snails need their shell to breathe properly, not just for protection. So even if you didn't cause any internal injuries, he's going to slowly asphyxiate without help.

 

[aly_starh]

Hi jasmine,

Feed him some high calcium food, to help speed up the repair and growth, something like Dill Weed.

hope he gets better soon