Mating, eggs or live birth, raising young and breeding problems.
You don’t make Sulawesi shrimp breed. You build a mature, warm, alkaline tank, put a female-heavy group of one line into it, and then hold everything still long enough for molting females to mate on their own schedule. The hard…
Yes, rabbit snails breed in a home aquarium, and you don’t have to do much to make it happen. Keep a small group in steady, warm, hard water with plenty to graze, and young turn up on their own. What…
A rabbit snail has one baby at a time, about once every four weeks in a home tank. The published anatomy shows the brood inside varies by species: wild females of different Tylomelania species carry anywhere from one or two…
Rabbit snail eggs don’t sit in your tank ticking down to a hatch date, because rabbit snails (Tylomelania sp.) don’t leave eggs outside the mother at all. They’re live bearers. The eggs and embryos are held in a brood pouch…
For as long as she stays healthy, as far as keepers can tell. A settled adult female releases one shelled juvenile about every four weeks. No study has measured how long she keeps it up in any rabbit snail (Tylomelania…
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…
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…
No. Nothing published shows a rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) holding her young inside the shell to shield them from bad water. Nothing shows her sealing the brood pouch against it either. She carries young because that’s how this genus reproduces,…
Keepers and care sheets usually say four to six months. Nobody has measured it in a rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.), so treat that as a hobby figure rather than a number to plan around. What is published is that she…
One rabbit snail, no tank mates of its own kind, and one morning there’s a second much smaller snail on the glass. Nothing cloned itself. You didn’t miss a batch of eggs either. The young of these snails grow inside…
If you’ve been scanning the glass for a clutch of rabbit snail eggs, you can stop. There’s nothing to find. The eggs stay inside the female, and what eventually leaves her shell is a small snail with a shell already…
A Sulawesi clutch that never hatches lands in one of three patterns: eggs that were never fertilized, dropped eggs, or embryos that stopped part way. By the time you’re looking at the problem, that clutch has already been decided, and…
