Aquarium snails, algae control, and tank mates.
Your rabbit snail has shut herself up tight, no babies have turned up, and the tank has been testing a little off. Nothing published shows a rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) holding her young inside the shell to shield them from…
Why would a rabbit snail crawl straight past blanched zucchini, a cube of Repashy and an algae pellet? Most often because it’s already fed. Rabbit snails (Tylomelania sp.) are grazers that rasp the thin film of algae and biofilm off…
You’ve got a planted tank and a rabbit snail on the way, and you’d like the plants to still be standing in a month. You can make chewing far less likely by letting the tank do the work: a thick…
What’s that crawling on your rabbit snail, and does it need treating? Almost always it’s a hitchhiker grazing the film on the shell of your rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.), and the only passenger that needs action is a leech anchored…
Your female rabbit snail has gone on producing young weeks after the last male left the tank, and you’d like to know how long stored sperm can keep that going. Nobody has measured it in a rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.).…
How did a rabbit snail that lives alone end up with a baby beside it? She was already carrying it: rabbit snail young grow inside the mother and leave already wearing a shell, so no partner had to be in…
You’ve checked the glass, the wood and the backs of the leaves for weeks, and there isn’t a single rabbit snail egg anywhere. There won’t be, because a female rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) keeps her eggs inside her body, and…
Should you pay for floor or for gallons when you pick a rabbit snail tank? Pay for floor: a rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) spends its whole life on the bottom and on the surfaces standing on it, so length times…
The rabbit snail by the back glass hasn’t budged since yesterday, and you’re bracing for the worst. It’s usually alive, and the trap door tells you which it is, not the clock: a living snail keeps that door shut and…
How much tank does one rabbit snail actually need? We’d give one adult rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) 20 gallons (76 L), two or three of them 29 gallons (110 L), and roughly 10 gallons (38 L) more for each snail…
You’ve had your eye on a rabbit snail and want to know what you’d be signing up for. The animal is a moderate keep, and the tank is the hard part. Rabbit snails (Tylomelania sp.) are heavy, slow grazers from…
How many years will a rabbit snail keep you company? Plan on several: care sites and keepers mostly put a rabbit snail’s lifespan at about 1 to 5 years, and the highest figure in circulation is ten. No study has…
