Keeping and Breeding Rabbit Snails

Hey guys, this video will cover everything about keeping and breeding rabbit snails, also known as Sulawesi snails or elephant snails in your aquarium. Unlike other snails, these snails do not overpopulate your tank and there are many varieties of colours and patterns.
Sorry guys, accidentally this video so this is just a reupload.
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#Rabbitsnails
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[@flamingbridges1649]

I just found a baby rabbit snail in my tank. It's so cute.

[@tomroberts7195]

Me too! Guess Gary is a Gail! Caught me off guard 😂

[@fawneh1359]

Just wanna say, rabbit snails will eat java ferns specifically!! They love them

[@mechan2535]

hey fantastic video loved. so i just bought a rabbit snail today from a local fish store. i have a 200 litre tank. i put the snail into my tank and it just lay at bottom i got worried thinking it was dead. so i left living room for about 20 minutes i came to the snail had dissapeared couldnt find it. i looked around and found a little mound in substrate. i dug and found the snail had buried itself is this normal ? its the first snail ive ever bought. so the snail has stayed under the substrate so far so should i be worried ?

[@ShadowChrome518]

Yes rabbit snails love to bury themselves deep while resting/sleeping

[@JasperS.-wv3ig]

Heyyyy im so curious how you are with the snail now and if youve bonded! Let me know! I love mine soooo much

[@adamlax27]

1:08 What does he say? "Your mini rabbit snails"? I can't find anything else about mini rabbit snails :( but i'd really like rabbit snails that only grow to an inch long

[@evar5831]

How often/how much should I feed them?

[@DELSOL170]

I bought 2 in May and now have about 200 tiny babys. Not sure what to do with them all

[@たろう808]

Sell them on eBay! You will definitely get some sales.

[@anastasiatzeiranidi4278]

Do they eat plants?

[@unbeaked_duck6816]

They should be elephant snails

[@worldofaquariums5534]

That's another common name for them

[@ZYGTropicals]

They are called Elephant snails! lol!

[@wcf93]

Aquatic arts sells their own tank bred giant rabbit snails. I ordered a couple of the black with yellow spots variety. I have three more arriving tomorrow. Fair warning they come really small and you might not be able to find them easily in your tank after introducing them.

[@agimatplays1828]

Really awesome video and information. Looking forward to more of your videos

[@ctophercs]

Great video 👍 thank you for taking the time to make it.

[@mohdimtiyaz7749]

I have see got one crystal black shrimp..is it can thrive in higher ph?

[@heathert5455]

I have one of these in a 5 gallon with a king koopa Nirite snail, a zebra Nirite snail, several orange Sakura shrimp, a African dwarf frog, and three male guppies.

[@THE-Stonerz-Korner]

The dude at the fish store told me tonight they only breed with salt water???? Is this dumb cuz snails hate salt or is this legit info?

[@cheh1311]

Rabbit snails breed in fresh water, the larvae of some other snails live in saltwater the first few months, maybe he was confused or it was a snail that looks like this but does need saltwater to breed. Some snails like nerite snails can also live in brackish water. Not al snails hate salt.

[@equinoxdept]

It is very difficult to adjust the water PH to 7.5 to 8.5. Do not know how to do it. In the production of water in the aquarium to ensure the quality as described in the clip.

[@worldofaquariums5534]

PH buffers should allow you to reach pH 8.5, (although 7.5Ph is fine already for rabbit snails), if your finding it hard to maintain that pH, it might mean you have low kH, and need to increase that. I have another video on aquarium chemistry which explains the process

[@equinoxdept]

@@worldofaquariums5534 Can I request to watch that clip?. If you have that clip I'd like to link to that clip too. Thank you very much.😘😘

[@worldofaquariums5534]

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[@ZYGTropicals]

@@equinoxdept it’s very simple! Natural processes in a tank cause acidity! Over time your tank will go acidic if it has no, or low Kh which is carbonate hardness! Carbonate hardness that is low will have zero or very little feet at reversing the acidity towards alkaline. Anything under 7 is acid. Above 7 is alkaline. So, to keep your water from going acid, you need a strong enough carbonate hardness, KH, so that it can fight against the acidity and either keep the ph stable or move it towards alkalinity. It all depends on how acid and how much carbonate hardness you have! So you have to learn the balance! You can buy powder acid and powder alkaline/carbonate hardness powder and get exactly where you want to be! Once you find where you want to be, you need a good buffer! Buffering capacity is the ability of a solution (your tank water) to hold it PH. With low buffering capacity, the ph will swing wildly one way or the other! Seachem makes great products for doing all of these things!

[@ashley_nguyen03]

I know that this is an older video but maybe you’ll be able to respond. I just found out my rabbit snails had a baby. They are in a 5 gal and I only have gravel for the ground. The baby keeps falling in between the gravel cracks ..should I move him? Or replace it with sand ??

[@worldofaquariums5534]

I would leave it, it shouldn't be too much of a problem if it is still able to feed fine. Maybe put in some food and see if it goes for it, eg like a mulberry leaf

[@capecodexotics5567]

Very cool! I subscribed and I’m thinking about getting one!! Ty

[@lisap1776]

Get 2, they'll make babies!

[@SoErkz]

Hope u can answer my question. I have a 2 inch chocolate rabbit snail. But i just noticed he doesnt have a trapdoor. Hes still alive but isnt as active as my other rabbit snails. Can they survive without a trapdoor? I do not keep any fishes with my snails. Theyre homed in a planted aquarium with other snails.

[@aaronws9561]

Looks like no one answered your question but seeing as I have raised a variety of snails I think .i can give you some good feedback. Not have an operculum (trapdoor) is not always a death sentence, but it can be. If the snail is in with fish that might harass it then the lack of an operculum means it will have no respite from harassment. Even with the operculum, however, that situation wouldn’t be great for a snail. For a snail alone the operculum is still useful, but not absolutely necessary AFAIK. It will be harder for the snail to sleep and it will be more prone to stress. Likely it will seek to bury itself or hide in dark areas when it needs its snail “alone time”. But chugging alone looking for food and whatnot the snail will be just fine. It may lead a normal life even, but I suspect the worst case scenario is that it will have a slightly dismissed life expectancy from feeling a bit more stressed without the operculum.

[@ZYGTropicals]

Rabbit snails have a small operculum. You just might not be seeing it or it has one so small it’s not noticeable.

[@andymare-capra8832]

I’ve had my rabbit snail for 10 year and he’s been flipping over and laying on his back for the past 3-4 days. I keep flipping him back over and he flips on his back immediately. Is he at the end. He just got treated with expel p and paracleanse. Idk what to do 😢

[@captenclown]

i can understand the "if u wanna breed, keep only 1 species" partly but would say "u have to". i for myself will try and go the hybrid breeding way. the simple fact that they can crossover tells nature itself is ok with this process, unless the hybrids become non breeders as a evolution lock. but highly doubt it since its fro mthe same base family and its like a european crossover with an african or asian. normally those cultures arent next to each other like some tylo species, yet if they connect and succefully breed there is another way life finds its way. and im eager to see what tylomelania hybrids can look like or become. my current olive hybrid (thats the best known hybrid so far) thrives just fine and even more hardened then its former parents. maybe someone would say "you play god" but i dont think that way, neither do the shrimp breeders with their colour variations. and i dont even enforce it since i still got currently from 3 tylospecies 4 of each and if they want/like to cross by themselve than thats natures way

[@CoolGobyFish]

do not hybridize your snails or fish. it's exteremely bad for the hobby.

[@fawneh1359]

​@@CoolGobyFishonly if you give them away without informing them. As long as you are not giving it to anyone who is breeding, there really isn't a problem because the bloodline won't continue.

[@CoolGobyFish]

@@fawneh1359come on, you know that eventually they will end up polluting the gene pool. someone will give them to someone who won't care. these snails might become extinct in nature due to all the pollution. it's best not to mix them (same goes for all other animals).

[@simonpidgeon949]

💯👍👍

[@Saranghe3736]

Help I just got two rabbit snails and they have white fuzzy stuff coming out of the side of their heads. Idk if it’s fungus or what :( can’t find much about it

[@LShaver947]

I just got 2 yellow spotted rabbit snails and 6 amano shrimp, are they good together?

[@LShaver947]

They are in 2 separate tanks and idk if I should put them together

[@Steve-zq3jg]

@@LShaver947 yeh go for it, my rabbits are with some neos and both species are doing well.

[@j00-s5y]

What gravel is that? I wanted it so bad !

[@worldofaquariums5534]

Hi, it should be Seachem onyx sand from memory

[@5446francisco]

Hello, can you recommend me, to acclimatize my rabbit. or do you have any video.

[@worldofaquariums5534]

just do it like shrimp or fish. These are extremely hardy.

[@Daniel.Li0n10]

Quality

[@0Moh]

Nice

[@siennaplaysroblox4368]

My aim was to get 1 rabbit snail now I got 5

[@lightspeed72]

I see that they are okay on gravel too, in spite of the fact that they prefer sandy substrate...?

[@worldofaquariums5534]

Not sure where you read to show they prefer sandy substrate, but they can do fine in both. I do find/ have heard others say that it is harder for them to move around in sand as it is a lot more slippery. In the wild, its a mixture of soft substrate/ gravel and rocks.

[@lisap1776]

They like to burrow :)

[@flamingbridges1649]

Sand is best as they like to burrow. They can't do that in gravel. I recently changed from gravel to sand and my rabbit snails are much happier

[@nwyk153]

They’re clumsy lil fella

[@RavenBlack534]

Awesome thanks so much xxx

[@ZomBeeNature]

I have only seen them once and they were very long, and over a year ago.

[@australian1018]

Oh he does sound Australian, but must have braces or a lisp.

[@ZomBeeNature]

@@australian1018 Oh.

[@haibinliu4770]

where i can buy it

[@wein-here966]

I got 2 and now i have 20

[@seankelly9054]

Yeah, I just got 2 a few weeks ago and already have 3 babies! According to all guides my water is too acidic, I have the wrong substrate and I don't even feed them but apparently they are mating like crazy. I don't know how I'm not going to get overrun but atleast my tank is large.

[@aaronws9561]

@@seankelly9054 I’ll gladly buy those babies from you. Have you ever shipped animals before? It is quite doable, but you need the right items like breather bags. PS- wanted to add that I would also be interested in We In Here’s snails as well. I will check in and maybe we can work something out.

[@ZYGTropicals]

@@aaronws9561 breather bags are def not needed to ship snails!

[@dylanroddy1419]

@@aaronws9561 I’d be willing to sell some :)

[@aaronws9561]

@@ZYGTropicals Are you certain? I’ve never heard that, but it seems to add risk to the shipping process. I would also think it depends on how they are shipped. most people ship with the snails merely in tissue soaked in water to maintain high humidity and the snails close their shells and go into low activity mode. I can see getting away without breather bags since their oxygen consumption would be reduced, by my philosophy is why chance it to save on inexpensive little baggies. But if you ship the snails in water where they might remain active? I think you’d run a risk of killing the snails without a breather bag. OTOH, maybe you have a lot of experience with this?

[@yvonnemiezis5199]

I thought l had a rabit snail, but only one,now about 5 cm,5 years old ,and bebis sometime,must be another species,l have only one snail .The bebis don't seem to servive ...why?

[@worldofaquariums5534]

Female rabbit snails from memory are able to continuous have babies over a long period of time after mating. The babies not survivng could be due to your water parameters and diet, where babies are a lot more susceptible to incorrect conditions.

[@yvonnemiezis5199]

@@worldofaquariums5534 thank you,very informative☺

[@tropicalfishandshrimptanks389]

Great video, top information. My favourite snail.

[@awatwolfeye7636]

why Rabbit Snails died so soon i have 2 but they died after 2 month

[@worldofaquariums5534]

could be many reasons, need a lot more info: poor water quality, copper, chemicals eg.

[@ZYGTropicals]

You were doing something wrong! That’s way too vague of a question to ask! You need to get yourself an aquarium master test kit and inform your self with books or info from the web! Don’t just read one thing, inform yourself using many different sources! Without knowing what your doing and what your parameters are, your completely in the dark!

[@richardbunt2278]

Knolige

[@roytan]

Great video but rabbit snails eat almost all plants including anubias plant and java fern

[@shortyleatherworks5693]

Did they ate plant?

[@briannawarren4174]

Apparently if they're well-fed they won't eat aquarium plants, but if they're given Java fern they probably will eat it. It's their favorite I guess.

[@alexandriachello8330]

Wait what do you mean they are not hermaphrodites? I only have 1 rabbit snail and it’s has babies! She has had many babies. The only other snails I have in the tanks are mysteries and 2 assasin snails. Do they breed with completely different species of snails?!

[@worldofaquariums5534]

Females are able to store sperm for a long period of time. But they have sexes unlike most other snails. You were lucky in getting a female that was already reproducing

[@alexandriachello8330]

@@worldofaquariums5534 she still is! Like I moved her to a new tank due to other snails sucking on her and shell quality and over night she had a mother baby!

[@himlolo]

@@alexandriachello8330 she can store for a lot of time, then release the babies one by one

[@nattyservano9515]

I saw celestial pearl danios on one of your videos. Can you please show us how to breed them? Thank you

[@ZYGTropicals]

Very easy to breed CPD’s!!! Super easy!! Set up a tank and make sure it’s cycled. Make sure you have adult, conditioned fish to breed. Females are larger and fatter! Put sand on the bottom of the tank. Then put a layer of Java moss over the bottom at about 2-3” thick. After conditioning the fish, add them to the breeding tank a couple hours before lights out at night so they have a bit of time to get use to the tank before lights out. Make sure your temp is around 78-80 deg. Do not feed them in this breeding tank. Oh, and you should be using a seasoned sponge filter for filtration. In the morning when it’s time for lights on is when they will usually start breeding! After 3-4 days, remove the fish and keep the sponge filter going and constant temp. Babies will be free swimming by the 4th day, so make sure you take out the adults by the 4th day! Breeding them is the easy part! Raising the fry is the hard part! The fry are too small for brine shrimp or even micro worms or Walter worms etc. you will need industrial for the first week or so. Then you can move onto Walter worms etc and after that, then brine shrimp. Water quality is crucial!! And too big of water changes will kill the fry. So it’s all about multiple small water changes done on a daily basis! I usually do small water changes 3 times a day for the first 3 weeks. Then once a day for another 3 weeks, then every other day.