either it has grown out or the snail has died and the shell is just left over and nothing is in it.
Empty snail shells.
The only arthropod I know with a house is a hermit crab - they utilized empty snail shells.
Baby snails do not find empty shells, in fact, they are born with clear, soft shells. The shells harden as the snail consumes calcium and they start with the egg shell they hatched from. The shell grows with the snail and the inner circle of the shell is the shell the snail was born with.
Snail shells are formed biologically as the snail grows up. Hermit crabs occupy empty shells and other containers, instead.
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No. The shell grows around the snail as the snail grows bigger, but the snail is fastened into its shell and cannot leave it. Hermit crabs live in empty shells, and find a new, bigger shell as they grow.
No toads don't eat snail shells in fact it's quite bad for them.
snails shed their shells and find new shells
the shells hermies use, are sea snail shells. The snail dies, gets washed up, and at lowtide the hermit crab will remove the snail and ocuppy the shell. If a hermie also sees another hermie with a shell they want, they will fight to the death to get the shell.
snail , armadillo
They both have Shells