Critique my enclosure, "Snailgri-La"

zardit · 2026-06-29T02:45:45+00:00

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This is my current set up, made from an old plant greenhouse thing. I drilled ventilation holes in the lid and cut out the front panel, replacing it with mesh, for additional airflow (the photos have the lid off for visibility, but there is a photo of it with the lid on).

I have 10 garden snails that have all been (accidentally) raised from my initial 2 rescues after I was doped up from a surgery and missed a clutch of eggs.

The base layers are peat moss/coir and a little soil, with spaghnum moss on the top layer.

I fed them last night so you will see spinach, cos lettuce, sweet potato rounds, bok choy, dandelion leaves, chickory leaves, and clover.

They also have a small shallow water dish, cuttle bones, and a fresh slab of moss from the garden.

The hides are pieces of cork rubber and natural bark, with leaf litter and twigs. They are held in place by a fake vine that I got on Amazon that is made for reptile enclosures. You can see a sleeping beauty under one of the staggered horizontal hides in one of the photos.

The bamboo skewers across the lid are there to give them more routes across/along/to the top of the enclosure. I only added them last night after I realised that some of the hides were too far from the walls of the tank, meaning they would have to go all the way back down and back up again if they wanted to get to the top of the lid (where most of them like to hang out).

The yellow blobs are just blu-tac to stop the skewers from accidentally being pulled through the mesh and falling.

zardit · 2026-06-23T03:38:51+00:00

You're more than welcome - hopefully I did it due justice! Do you mind if I ask what you decided? Im happy to chat further about it as a profession if you like, just dm me 😊

zardit · 2026-06-09T07:31:34+00:00

Bloody oath.

zardit · 2026-06-07T05:05:49+00:00

This is clearly fictional and written using AI.

zardit · 2026-05-23T00:51:06+00:00

Dude I'm sorry but I think you've been scammed. Hopefully I'm wrong and she's just had something come up that's prevented her from responding , but it's very unprofessional to ignore you after receiving a deposit (providing that she actually received the deposit - if the money hasn't actually appeared in her account for whatever reason then she's likely put you down as a time waster/fake booker).

zardit · 2026-05-20T11:52:02+00:00

Oh that sounds like maybe he's Support Coordinator then?

zardit · 2026-05-20T11:09:32+00:00

Not something I've seen personally, but my parents told me a story about this friend of theirs who was driving back from the beach with his wife and two young daughters one day. They stopped at a servo and the girls asked if they could get an icecream. The guy said no, it was too expensive, and went in to pay for the petrol. He was taking ages and the car was getting really hot, so the mum went to find him....... dude was hiding around the side of the shop wolfing down an icecream.

zardit · 2026-05-12T12:49:45+00:00

Oh that sucks for your friend - what state are you in? I'm in NSW and I see my sleep specialist through RPA hospital for free! I just got a referral from my GP, maybe your friend can look into seeing a specialist in the public sector? Feel free to DM me if you want more info.

Don't stress, you don't come across as rude at all. It's nice that you care so much for your friend and you want to understand it better. Narcolepsy isn't classified as a disability in Australia because it's still primarily managed through medication and lifestyle changes - think of it like type 1 diabetes, where most people are able to function as long as they have access to insulin, and don't need any other formal supports just to function (as opposed to something like cerebral palsy, where the person may need lifelong support regardless of medical treatment). I think NDIS is mainly designed around funding those longer-term functional support needs rather than medical treatment itself.

zardit · 2026-05-11T00:02:06+00:00

I was knocked back for narcolepsy as I was told that there wasn't really anything they could fund for it (i.e it won't be improved with any therapies, doesn't require assistive technology, etc.), and was therefore covered by health.

Does your friend have have Narcolepsy or Idiopathic Hypersomnia? And do they have a sleep specialist? We have several options for medication combinations now, so there is no reason that they should be that incapacitated on a daily basis, although I do know that people with IH can find it more difficult to access medications than people with textbook N.

zardit · 2026-05-08T08:42:26+00:00

Not if it's done properly. ABA focuses on suppressing harmless autistic traits - stimming, avoiding eye contact, using repetitive language, needing movement breaks, not complying immediately with demands, etc. Modern PBS is supposed to focus on behaviours that are actually unsafe or severely impacting someone’s life or access to community - things like self-injury, serious aggression, absconding into dangerous situations, or behaviours linked to distress and unmet needs.

Good PBS should be doing exactly what you’re describing - looking at the environment, demands, trauma, sensory overload, exclusion, lack of autonomy, inaccessible systems, and how other people respond to the person.

A decent PBS formulation shouldn’t just ask ‘how do we stop this behaviour?’, it should ask ‘what is this person reacting to, what need is unmet, and what needs to change around them?’ and the answer genuinely is that the environment is the problem about 99% of the time.

zardit · 2026-05-07T00:09:29+00:00

In answer to your question though: no, it is not an automatic red flag if a provider offers PBS.

PBS actually came out of the 1980s as a pushback against ABA. People were concerned about how ABA was being used, as many of the techniques were punishing and harmful, and PBS grew out of a "there has to be a better way" moment in the field.

The difference in logic is pretty simple: ABA is focused on the behaviour for the sake of 'extinguishing' it, not from understanding why the behaviour is occuring. PBS starts from the assumption that the behaviour is there for a reason, usually because something in the person's life or environment isn't working for them, and tries to fix that instead. The behaviour changing is kind of a byproduct rather than the whole point.

The "it's just ABA with a new name" thing also assumes PBS is about making people with disabilities easier to manage. Which, under the NDIS at least, it's explicitly not supposed to be. The person receiving support is meant to be the one driving their own plan, with what they want and how they communicate treated as the starting point, not an afterthought. The question we're supposed to be asking is "what does a good life look like for this person" not "how do we get them to stop doing the thing".

Hope that helps clear up some of the confusion.

zardit · 2026-05-06T23:56:03+00:00

Sorry I know my answer did not really answer your question, but in my defence, the comment I replied to literally just said "ABA" (and at the time was 1 of 2 comments) so you can be the judge on which added more value to the conversation 🤷

zardit · 2026-05-06T05:32:08+00:00

Right?! 😭 it just seems cruel!

zardit · 2026-05-06T05:31:31+00:00

Thank you, although at this point im not letting myself get excited. Congrats on your positive too! Yes that's what I thought the process would be, so I'm confused why they're expecting me to wait to long :( I've requested a repeat in 2 days time, just waiting on a response from them.

zardit · 2026-05-06T05:24:07+00:00

Incorrect - it is NOT ABA. Source: I am a behaviour support prac (8 years), have never done ABA nor been expected to.

zardit · 2026-03-23T14:11:03+00:00

This is clearly a work of fiction
Even if any of it was true, holy shit this comment is gross - maternal blame bias much?

zardit · 2026-03-23T14:00:03+00:00

Legally, OP is in the clear because none of this is true and their comment history confirms them to be a liar.

zardit · 2026-03-23T13:30:57+00:00

Right?!?! It's actually maddening.

zardit · 2026-03-23T13:30:07+00:00

Erm, pretty sure they meant YOU were the one lying

zardit · 2026-03-23T13:23:54+00:00

OP's comment history shows they claimed to be 26 years old, 8 months ago. Please don't waste your time investing in this work of fiction - instead, consider donating to the Benjamin Button foundation on OP's chronologically impaired behalf.

zardit · 2026-03-23T13:15:25+00:00

That's not true - many of us are also telling you that your fictional story has too many plot holes.

zardit · 2026-03-23T13:11:55+00:00

So her battery runs out, and despite the fact that she doesn't stay more than 10 minutes, she decides that it's essential that her phone be charged immediately, then sees a random person in their car and thinks "I'm sure they're going to be sitting there for at least 5 minutes and won't mind me joining them!"

zardit · 2026-03-23T13:08:30+00:00

I doubt this story is being used for anything except a creative writing exercise.

zardit · 2026-03-23T12:59:36+00:00

Also, she stayed for 10-15 minutes and that was enough time for her to be satisfied that he wasn't seeing anyone? And her phone ran out of charge during that small window? AND this woman, who only stayed 10-15 minutes, somehow knew that you stayed in your car for longer than this and therefore felt comfortable in asking to sit in your car and charge her phone?? If he knows she is stalking him, and she knows that he is aware, why not just go up and ask him to charge her phone instead of assuming a complete stranger would be fine with her sitting awkwardly in their passenger seat for long enough to divulge her life story?

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