No, garden snails cannot live in water. They like to have a very shallow dish of water for bathing and drinking, but garden snails will drown in water that is too deep for them to escape. Garden snails only have lungs so they cannot breath underwater.
Can garden snails be in water?
Pulmonate land snails will usually drown in less than 24 hours. Operculate land snails can survive much longer in water if the operculum makes a good seal. Also, some operculate land snails, for example Geomelania (Truncatellidae) do not drown, but can remain submerged indefinitely.
Can regular snails live in water?
Aquarium snails can not survive outside of the water for long because their body dries out. If a water snail is placed on land, it would survive just a couple of hours. Some snails go out of the water to eat or lay eggs, but quickly return afterwards. As long as a snail is wet it’s able to survive.
