A Rough Night Of Exactly What?

[etana]

This morning I found my jadatzi-rodatzi cross Tauno lying on his side in the tank. I picked him up and noticed his foot was small compared to his shell. 

I immediately sat him on a dish of water and cut a slice of fresh sweet potato with a cheese cutter for him. Thankfully he was able to rasp. He expanded back to his normal size within the next 15 minutes or so, which was when I saw that his cheek area looked weird, a bit swollen with debris of some sort sticking out of it. 

So, a bad case of post egg laying exhaustion, or was he possibly loved sore by another snail (I'm thinking of the big fat mommy who's twice his size)? I didn't have time to egg check all around the big tank yet, though I will do that asap too. When I last checked over the weekend though he didn't have a clutch inside him.

He went to sleep after eating a good bit of the slice, and made a very unusual sleeping face. A tiny baby woke him up (one of his own I think) and since then he's been awake, snailing around, looking okay enough. 

Any thoughts?

[etana]

Adding my own thoughts - must have been too much sweet lovin' by the Mama. He hasn't had any problems since.

[Zorst]

Poor guy he must have been wreaked to be in that state, hopefully with your TLC he's now well on the way to recovery.

Zorst

[etana]

Thankfully, he's fine now. It was very surprising to see that even a shrinking snail can recover fully if helped right away. Seems it's a good rule of thumb to carefully check any snail who is on his side or upside down and can't right himself.

[Zorst]

Def is and I always do the same with mine.

Zorst