chibikaie Posted September 8, 2014 Report Share Posted September 8, 2014 Tylomelania? Hoping to learn more about these guys. CharlesWex, Deroyhott, SurraGync and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elo500 Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 I have 2 yellows in my cherry tank. Very cool to watch them eat lying on their backs like otters. Check out www.rabbitsnails.com Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctaylor3737 Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 I keep them in my Sulawesi Tank they only produce 1 baby a month or so. They are very easy to keep and raise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davesays Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 I also keep them with my cardinal shrimp. I haven't had any luck keeping them with any "non-floating" plants besides mosses. They aren't the best janitors but their cuteness earns them their keep. I recall reading somewhere that rabbit snails and Sulawesi shrimp share a symbiotic relationship in which their slime trail or feces provides food for the shrimp. They have been cohabiting great together in my tanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chibikaie Posted September 9, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 Awww so cute! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mnemenoi Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 We have 3 different species and they are fun, just larger then most and can be hard in smaller nanos. Tang/Malawi tanks are perfect for them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy Posted September 9, 2014 Report Share Posted September 9, 2014 They are very forgiving, I have had them in 70F, 75F, and 80F. They definitely like 80F more. Once they are stable, you can expect one baby per month or so from each adult. mayphly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chibikaie Posted September 10, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 Wow, I had no idea. I thought you had to go wacko sophisticated for these guys. They eat plants, don't they? Perhaps a riparium would work for them ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShortGirl Posted September 10, 2014 Report Share Posted September 10, 2014 I keep a 15g just for my rabbits. I also make them their own jello food I have 4 adults and a handful of babies. Here is some of the brood enjoying snowflake shrimp food. The latest adult I acquired gave birth to this little cutie. It seems to have a all black face with striped yellow antenna. mayphly and Elo500 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greenteam Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Do they need soft or hard water? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShortGirl Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 They need hard water with high pH. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jumpsmasher Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 I am a big Rabbit snail fan - they are my favourite snails by far! I try to collect any different ones that I come across. I currently have the following: Yellow Spotted Orange Dark Orange Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chibikaie Posted September 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 Thank you everyone for the photos and info. They are sooooo cute! I have soft, alkaline water, and if I understand their needs, they should be happy enough with the addition of aragonite and a heater. Now I just need to find a way to get rid of some useless furniture and put in a rack of tanks ... who put desks and beds and things in the bedroom, so silly taking up space like that! Shrimpie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eozen81 Posted October 10, 2014 Report Share Posted October 10, 2014 Rabbit snails are my favourite snails by far. For the first time I saw them I was amazed by their cuteness. I have now orange, yellow, golden spotted and chocolate aka thunderbold rabbits in my Sulawesi tank. Their reproduction rate is so low as mentioned here and also their growing up speed is very very slow. A newborn can give babies after 1 year in my observation. You can see my poso rabbits below. An important info: Watch out imported poso snails that you have purchased as they might carry leeches. Unfortunately I was not very careful and I welcomed some poso snails with leechs on them and now I am trying to take them out one by one. You can see my treatment video also below which I believe is very important for poso keepers to keep in mind. Regards Soothing Shrimp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chibikaie Posted January 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 My filter mats arrived, so I finally have the snail tank set up and cycling. This is where the water parameters settled out with aragonite mixed into the substrate: pH 7.5 ish GH 5 KH 3 Should I try to bump those all up? Should I add more aragonite or go straight to dosing calcium and bicarbonate? I can go either way. Inhabitants will be rabbit snails and Malawa shrimp, so hopefully nothing particularly sensitive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miwu Posted January 24, 2015 Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 I don't think you need to change those. Rabbit snails are quite hardy. You'll want a high temperature though. I noticed mine were much more active once I had my tank heated to 82 degrees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chibikaie Posted January 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2015 Really? That would make life easy. Awesome! Heater is definitely in the plans. I just figured it would be silly to heat an empty tank for four weeks. aquariumlover10 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chibikaie Posted January 26, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2015 http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/content.php?sid=5317 Scrolling down to the paragraph on "thunderbolt" snails (another name for the chocolate) - I may end up supplementing with calcium hydroxide. Edited to add: my French is not good enough to really read this, but it sounds like these guys require GH 15, KH 10. http://www.aquaportail.com/fiche-invertebre-2389-tylomelania-perfecta.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chibikaie Posted February 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2015 Stuck at home with a bad cold. I did some experimenting with calcium hydroxide, and managed to hit my target pH of 8.0-8.4 with a GH and alkalinity of only 5 degrees each. It looks like the GH didn't even budge. (No, nothing is in the tank at the moment. Just some rocks and hornwort.) Back to the drawing board! I may just leave parameters where they are, as I don't think anyone has definitive research on that section of river. And stability > perfection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 I see this: The water should be rich in carbonates (KH high,> 10) to maintain this decorative feature on the shell . Otherwise, it is the conventional parameters of a snail Sulawesi must be respected: pH basic > 7.4, GH relatively high (> 15) to improve the formation of the shell, and temperature hot enough, if possible above 25 ° C. https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://www.aquaportail.com/fiche-invertebre-2389-tylomelania-perfecta.html&usg=ALkJrhiBZPwXbV07MSUH0ryn20WnbYq3pw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrimpscales Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 I love rabbit snails but have never tried them because all my tanks are soft water. CharlesWex, Deroyhott and Timothylem 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chibikaie Posted February 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 It's usually not that hard to increase hardness if you have a spare tank - get a bag of aragonite and use it as the substrate, or put a bag of it into the filter. I'm just not sure how to raise the alkalinity further without also bringing the pH up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGardenofEder Posted February 10, 2015 Report Share Posted February 10, 2015 Is this as rabbit snail? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctaylor3737 Posted February 11, 2015 Report Share Posted February 11, 2015 I keep rabbit snails in my sulawesi tanks and they breed once a month or two all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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