Aquarium snails, algae control, and tank mates.
Your rabbit snail has sat in the same spot since yesterday with its trapdoor shut. It’s almost certainly alive: these snails are slow, they close the trapdoor whenever they want to be left alone, and a new one can stay…
Standing over a new rabbit snail with a food tub, unsure what to drop in? Mostly nothing: rabbit snails (Tylomelania) spend most of the day rasping biofilm, aufwuchs and algae off rock, wood and glass, and that layer, not the…
Can a rabbit snail and a mystery snail share your tank, and what actually separates them? We’d keep them in separate tanks: one is a live-bearing Sulawesi grazer, the other an air-breathing apple snail that lays eggs above the waterline.…
You’ve heard rabbit snails are endangered, and you’d like to know what that means for the one you’re about to buy. Many rabbit snail species are: most of the species that have been assessed are listed as threatened, and 19…
Hoping your rabbit snails will give you babies? Rabbit snails can breed in a home aquarium, and there’s little to do beyond keeping a small group well, in steady, warm, hard water with plenty to graze. What you won’t get…
Is a yellow rabbit snail a different species from a chocolate one? Nobody can tell you from the name, because a rabbit snail’s name describes its color, not its species. Yellow, orange poso, chocolate, gold, black spotted: these are labels…
Thinking about a rabbit snail and wondering how hard it really is? A Sulawesi rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) is moderate to keep, but it needs an advanced tank: 79-86°F (26-30°C), pH 7.5-8.5, GH 4-8 dGH, KH 3-6 dKH, TDS 150-250…
Whatever name it was sold under, the rabbit snail in your tank belongs to a genus that lives wild on one island only: Sulawesi, Indonesia.[[1]] The best-known species of that genus, Tylomelania, live in the island’s two ancient lake systems,…
Which snail can actually live in a Sulawesi shrimp tank? Start with the Sulawesi rabbit snails, Tylomelania, and add a nerite or two for the glass, because rabbit snails come from the same lakes, hold the same warm alkaline water…
Your Sulawesi tank is running warm and alkaline, and a rabbit snail looks like the one tankmate that would fit straight in. Rabbit snails (Tylomelania spp.) are one of the few tankmates whose water genuinely matches Sulawesi shrimp, because the…
