Common illnesses, quarantine, and safe treatments.
Keeping Sulawesi shrimp healthy is mostly a stability problem, not a medicine problem. These are lake shrimp from warm, alkaline, biologically mature water. In a home tank they need the same thing held still: 79-86°F (26-30°C), pH 7.5-8.5, GH 4-8…
A rabbit snail that hasn’t moved since yesterday is usually alive. These animals are slow, and they shut the trapdoor whenever they want to be left alone. A new one can stay closed for a day or two after a…
Most rabbit snails (Tylomelania sp.) that hide are resting or settling in: keepers commonly report a new snail staying shut or half-buried in the sand for several days, and care sites put a single rest at up to three or…
A worn, chalky tip on an adult rabbit snail is usually old wear that wild snails carry too. Fresh pitting or whitening near the opening is different: it points to water that’s too soft or drifting acidic, which is the…
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…
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,…
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…
Short answer: yes, most likely, on both counts. Nobody has published a study that follows a rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) through either repair, so anyone who gives you an exact timeline is guessing. What we do have is work on…
If your rabbit snails walk straight past blanched zucchini, a cube of Repashy and an algae pellet, the most likely answer is that they’re already fed. Rabbit snails (Tylomelania sp.) are grazers. They rasp the thin film of algae and…
Nearly everything you find crawling on a rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) is a hitchhiker grazing the film on the shell. It needs nothing from you. One thing does: a leech anchored to the snail’s soft skin. A snail carrying several…
A rabbit snail that hasn’t moved since yesterday is usually fine. What tells you whether it’s alive is the trap door, not the clock. A living snail keeps that door shut and pulls back when you touch it, while a…
