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Short answer: we wouldn’t risk it. An adult assassin snail (Anentome helena) reaches about 30 mm at most[[1]], and a grown rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) is several times that. The size gap is real, and it still isn’t what decides…
Yes to both, and the order matters. Soft water leaves a rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) short of two things at once. There’s no carbonate holding the pH up, so the water keeps pulling at the shell. And there’s little dissolved…
No. Once a fish has started nipping a rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.), nothing you add to the tank reliably stops it. Extra food, a rearranged layout, more plants, a cave the fish can’t reach: keepers try all of it. The…
Yes, for a defined stay. A rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) can hold in a cycled 2.5-gallon for two to four weeks. Three things have to be true: the water matches what the snail already lives in, ammonia and nitrite read…
Yes, as far as anyone can tell from watching them. A baby rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) leaves its mother as a finished miniature snail, shell and all. The body color you see on day one is the color you keep.…
Yes, it can, and the damage is not always something you can see afterwards. A rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) grips the glass with its foot, while its body is anchored to the inside of its own shell by a separate…
Yes, there’s a way to supplement a rabbit snail’s shell, and most of it happens before you buy a single product. Tylomelania snails build shell out of the minerals dissolved around them, so the water is the supplement. Cuttlebone, crushed…
Yes. Put a sinking pellet or an algae wafer on the sand and a rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) will usually find it and start rasping. That is not the same as fish food being their food. The grazed film is…
Yes, in all likelihood, and there isn’t much you can do about it. Rabbit snails (Tylomelania sp.) have separate sexes, and a male looks just like a female from the outside.[[1]] You can’t choose a pair. You can’t pull the…
A week shut inside the shell is one of the most common things keepers report after moving a rabbit snail, and on its own it doesn’t tell you the animal is dying. Confirm it’s alive first with a touch test,…
Keepers say at about 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) and close to a year old. That pairing comes from keepers watching their own tanks: no published study gives an age or a size at first breeding for any rabbit snail, including…
Work out what you’re looking at before you buy anything. Most of the tiny white things that turn up on a rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) aren’t parasites. The products keepers reach for to kill them are far more dangerous to…
