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.
Short answer: the animal is a moderate keep, and the tank is the hard part. Rabbit snails (Tylomelania sp.) are heavy, slow grazers from the ancient lakes of Sulawesi. The genus has radiated there into dozens of species found nowhere…
Plan on several years. 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 measured it, so every one of those numbers is…
A rabbit snail that hasn’t moved since yesterday is usually alive. These animals are slow, and they shut the trapdoor whenever they want to be left alone. A new one can stay closed for a day or two after a…
Rabbit snails eat the film. A Tylomelania rabbit snail spends most of its day rasping biofilm, aufwuchs and algae off rock, wood and glass, and that layer, not the food you drop in, is the main meal. What you can…
They’re both big snails, and that’s about where the resemblance ends. A rabbit snail is a live-bearing Sulawesi snail, Tylomelania sp. It drops one already shelled young at a time into the tank, about once a month, and grazes the…
Many rabbit snail species are, but “rabbit snail” isn’t one animal. Most species that have been assessed are listed as threatened, and 19 are Critically Endangered.[[1]] The genus as a whole has no single status, and the snails sold in…
Yes, rabbit snails breed in a home aquarium, and you don’t have to do much to make it happen. Keep a small group in steady, warm, hard water with plenty to graze, and young turn up on their own. What…
Rabbit snails (Tylomelania) come from one island: Sulawesi, Indonesia.[[1]] The best-known species live in its two ancient lake systems, Lake Poso and the Malili lakes, but the genus also lives in rivers across most of the island. For your tank,…
