It is a small, friendly creature with simple needs. You can keep pet snails in a small container, providing you care for them properly and make sure they receive enough air, water, and food.
Land snails are suitable pets for elementary-school-age kids, who can learn from watching snails crawl, eat, grow and breed.
The Helix aspersa is an air-breathing snail, which has a single lung. They have a brownish soft body, covered with slimy mucus and yellow or cream-colored shells with brown spiral stripes. Size: 28 to 35 mm for an adult weight of 7 to 15 g.
This mollusk has a soft body protected by the shell, but when it is not feeding or when it feels danger, it retracts to its shell. it does most of its day-to-day activities at night or very early in the morning, but if it rains during the day, it usually goes out. In hot or drought periods, Helix aspersa retracts in its shell and covers the opening with a layer of mucus called epiphragm, which helps to keep the moisture inside and avoid the attack of animals that can kill it, like some ants.
