Hi. I have a well planted 40gl tank complete with the common snails that came with the plants. I've never had to "manage" the snails. When they become over populated it's usually because I've let the algae get out of control. More food, more snails. It works out though. The snails become unattractive and remind me to clean the glass. When I do that they eat all the algae off of the plants without harming them, leaving them sparkly clean. When that algae is gone, the surplus snails,...uh, go away. ;)

Not the best tree for the southeast due to issues with invasiveness once they start to set seed. You may already know this. I don't think they need to be pampered (watered) at this point. All the trees are having to deal with this weather and it'll find a way; some trees shed leaves early (tulip poplar and buckeyes in my area). Bugs eating leaves is also no big deal, it won't kill the tree.

Do snails eat roots ? I see they eat leafs and fruit but I didn't know they ate roots. I have hundreds of them in my back yard and I havent had a problem with them hurting anything that I can tell.I have hundreds of pots with palms I forgot to say that.

The lime can be rooted from cuttings. My experience with rooting citrus is that what works best is short cuttings (3-4 inches long)with the growing tip present. The cuttings should be green but a little firm. No brown wood should be present. Is it a Mexican Lime (same as a Key Lime)? Mexican Limes are the small real juicy ones with thin peels. The larger, pulpier, thicker peeled limes are Persian Limes. If it's a Mexican Lime, it's easy to grow them from seed. They mostly grow true from seed. Most of the seeds in the fruit are nucellar. "Nucellar" basically means that they just went ahead and made embryos without bothering with all of that pollinating and sex stuff. Each seed contains one embryo. What happened is that an individual cell in the ovary decided to just turn into an embryo. So, they are genetically identical to the parent plant. I've grown Mexican Limes from seed and they have produced plenty of fruit without being budded to a rootstock. Budding onto a rootstock is really not necessary if you are growing the tree in a container.