Food, feeding schedules, biofilm, and balanced nutrition.
Not daily. In an established tank, Sulawesi shrimp (Caridina spp.) spend the whole day grazing the biofilm and algae already growing on rock, glass and substrate. Prepared food is a top-up on that. The honest interval is the one your…
Rabbit snails eat the film. A Tylomelania rabbit snail spends most of its day rasping biofilm, aufwuchs and algae off rock, wood and glass, and that layer, not the food you drop in, is the main meal. What you can…
Partly. A rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) grazes the thin film of algae and biofilm that grows on rock, glass and substrate, and some species will eat most things they come across. It won’t clear an algae outbreak, it doesn’t take…
Yes, and most of them will take it. Peel a slice, soften it, sink it where the snail can reach it, and a rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) will usually park on top and rasp away. No published study has looked…
Yes. Rabbit snails (Tylomelania sp.) graze the film that grows over rock, wood and glass. That grazing is the feeding mode the published work on them describes, and it’s why the tank has to be mature before one goes in.…
Yes. A rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) will usually graze a slice of blanched zucchini, and plain zucchini carries nothing that can harm it. Think of it as an occasional extra sitting on top of the biofilm these snails really live…
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…
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…
Maybe, and you can make it far less likely. Keepers report both: some rabbit snails (Tylomelania sp.) strip soft leaves, and others share planted tanks for years with nothing chewed. So you protect a planted tank by making the tank…
Sulawesi shrimp come from a handful of ancient lakes on one Indonesian island, and the part of those lakes they actually occupy is small: a sunlit band of rock, sand and sunken wood close to shore. The water there is…
Sulawesi shrimp come from two ancient lake systems on one Indonesian island, Lake Poso and the Malili lakes. The water there is warm and carries very little dissolved mineral, yet it still sits on the alkaline side of neutral. The…
If food is still sitting on the rock an hour after you dropped it in, you’re feeding a Sulawesi tank more than it can use. Leftovers matter more here than in a Neocaridina or Bee tank. The warm, alkaline water…
