Aquarium snails, algae control, and tank mates.
Your tap water tests soft, and the rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) you want to keep comes from lakes that are alkaline. Raise both the pH and the minerals, lifting KH and GH together toward pH 7.5-8.5, because calcium on its…
Can you stop a fish nipping your rabbit snail without splitting them up? No. Once a fish has started on a rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.), nothing you add to the tank reliably stops it, so the fix is separation. Extra…
Your rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) needs somewhere to stay for a few weeks, and the spare tank you’ve got is a cycled 2.5-gallon. It can hold the snail for two to four weeks, as long as the water matches what…
Is the tiny snail on your glass going to color up like its mother, or is this the color it keeps? It’s the color it keeps, as far as anyone can tell: a baby rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) is born…
Your rabbit snail has parked on the front glass, right on the patch you want to clean, and it won’t budge. Pulling a rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) straight off the glass can injure it, and the damage isn’t always something…
Can you really supplement a rabbit snail’s shell, or is that cuttlebone in your cart just something people buy? You can, and most of it happens before you buy a single product: Tylomelania snails build shell out of the minerals…
You’ve got a tub of fish food on the shelf and a rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) working its way across the sand. Yes, it’ll eat that food: drop a sinking pellet or an algae wafer near it and a rabbit…
Can a baby rabbit snail grow up and breed with its own mother? In all likelihood, yes, and there isn’t much you can do about it. Rabbit snails (Tylomelania sp.) have separate sexes, and a male looks just like a…
Your new rabbit snail has spent the whole week since it arrived shut inside its shell. That’s one of the most common things keepers report after moving a rabbit snail, and on its own it doesn’t mean the animal is…
How old and how big does a rabbit snail have to be before it breeds? Keepers say about 1.5 inches (3.8 cm) and close to a year old, and that pairing comes from people watching their own tanks, not from…
There are tiny white specks on your rabbit snail, and the medication shelf is already looking tempting. Most of what turns up on a rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) is a passenger, not a parasite, and the products keepers reach for…
Will your rabbit snail’s antenna or operculum grow back? Yes, most likely, on both counts, though nobody has published a study that follows a rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) through either repair, so an exact timeline is a guess. Work on…
