Every guide we have written on keeping Sulawesi rabbit snails (Tylomelania), covering the warm, alkaline water they share with Sulawesi shrimp, feeding, live birth and baby snails, tank mates and what to check when a snail stops moving. New to rabbit snails? Start with Sulawesi rabbit snail care. Not sure which line you are looking at? Types of rabbit snails explains what the trade names mean.
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 ppm and nitrate under 10 ppm, in a system mature enough to…
A rabbit snail’s name tells you its color, not its species. Yellow, orange poso, chocolate, gold, black spotted: these are labels sellers wrote to describe how a snail looks. For buying, that’s good news. The lines sold in the hobby…
Most tetras aren’t a good match for rabbit snails (Tylomelania sp.). The snail needs warm, hard, alkaline water at 79-86°F (26-30°C) and pH 7.5-8.5, and the tetras usually suggested as tankmates are listed for cooler, softer or more acidic water.…
No, we wouldn’t put guppies in a rabbit snail tank. Sulawesi rabbit snails (Tylomelania sp.) need 79-86°F (26-30°C) and 4-8 dGH, while FishBase lists guppies (Poecilia reticulata) up to 28°C (82°F) with hardness of 9-19 dH, so the two only…
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…
Yes, rabbit snails can live with Caridina shrimp, but only with the Sulawesi lake species such as Cardinal shrimp, because both are kept in the same warm, alkaline water. Crystal Red, Bee and Taiwan Bee shrimp are a different story:…
Usually it’s nothing wrong: Sulawesi Keepers describes some rabbit snail species as living in fine sand or mud and not climbing on stones at all, so a snail that spends its time in the sand is often doing what its…
Yes, Sulawesi rabbit snails (Tylomelania sp.) and Neocaridina shrimp (Neocaridina davidi) can share a tank, as long as the snail sets the temperature and the shrimp stay a small group. On paper the two don’t meet: Neocaridina are usually kept…
A rabbit snail has one baby at a time, about once every four weeks in a home tank. The published anatomy shows the brood inside varies by species: wild females of different Tylomelania species carry anywhere from one or two…
Keep baby rabbit snails in the same mature, warm, alkaline tank as the adults, with every filter intake covered and nothing in the water that eats snails. They’re born already shelled,[[1]] so your job is the tank, not hand-rearing. Treat…
Not strictly. Most care sheets and keepers describe Sulawesi rabbit snails (Tylomelania sp.) as moving by day and by night. A long-time keeper’s account links their daytime hiding to bright tank lighting.[[1]] So if yours only shows up after lights…
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…
