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.
Plan on a year or more. Keepers report rabbit snails reaching breeding size at around a year old, and full size in the larger species comes after that. No published study has timed how long any rabbit snail (Tylomelania) takes…
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…
No. Rabbit snails (Tylomelania sp.) are slow grazers that scrape a film of algae and microbes off rock, wood and glass. We couldn’t find a single published record of one catching a live shrimp or shrimplet. If you’ve found a…
No. Sulawesi rabbit snails (Tylomelania spp.) aren’t known to hunt, kill or eat healthy snails. They’re grazers that work the film of algae and bacteria off rock, wood and glass, and we haven’t found a single published record of one…
Get the snail moving, then look at its head. A baby rabbit snail (Tylomelania sp.) pushes a long, wrinkled snout ahead of itself and waves two thick tentacles. Its foot is usually bright or boldly spotted. A Malaysian trumpet snail…
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…
Once a week, for most tanks. A small water change plus a light pass over the sand with a siphon is the whole routine. The filter media, the deep sand and the back and side glass are better left alone.…
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.…
Rabbit snail eggs don’t sit in your tank ticking down to a hatch date, because rabbit snails (Tylomelania sp.) don’t leave eggs outside the mother at all. They’re live bearers. The eggs and embryos are held in a brood pouch…
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…
No. Extra wood and rock give a rabbit snail more surface to graze, and that’s worth having. But they don’t give it more floor to cross, and they don’t give the tank more water. In a small tank they take…
For as long as she stays healthy, as far as keepers can tell. A settled adult female releases one shelled juvenile about every four weeks. No study has measured how long she keeps it up in any rabbit snail (Tylomelania…
