It’s been awhile since I have actively tried to raise any mystery snailsĀ due to space and time constraints. However, I have had 3 egg clutches hatch starting on Valentine’s Day 2/14/20. The babies are ivory, blue, magenta and dark foot purple. Below is one of the mother snails. Keep an eye out and I will post on my available page when they are ready to go to new homes.
I have been slowly collecting golden / orange poso rabbitsnail adults and should have a very limited number of babies available in the next couple of months. Here are some of the adults eating snello š
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AVAILABLE NOW!
Very limited # of Baby Yellow Rabbit snails for saleĀ – 1/4″ or slightly larger.Ā BUY 10 – GET 1 FREE for $50
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Minimum order $25. Shipping available via priority mail with tracking number within the Continental USA (excluding Maine): $15
Please contact me if interested.
Below is a photo of a couple of my adults (not for sale – pictured so that you can see what the babies may look like when older).Ā Yellow rabbit snail babies typically will grow up to be some shade of yellow.Ā Occasionally other colors can occur such as white or brown.
Adult Yellow Rabbit Snails – Tylomelania / sulawesi / rabbit snails found in pet stores, are usually wild caught which can deplete native populations. The babies I offer are tank raised with no impact on the wild population šĀ Rabbit snails can live for 2-4 years and are easy to care for. They love snello / snail jello, algae wafers, some vegetables such as frozen/thawed cut green beans and left over fish food, the will eat some algae but need to be fed regularly to thrive.Ā The do best if you offer a calcium source such as weco wonder shells or plain white bird cuttlebone in the aquarium for them for proper shell growth.
Cleaning my rabbit snail aquariums takes some special consideration. While mystery snails and ramshorns will happily mob food at one end of the aquarium while I carefully clean, this isn’t always true of rabbit snails. Rabbit snails eat until they are very full, and then can sleep for a few days. When resting, they often burrow under the aquarium gravel and hide behind the sponge filters. Females also do this right before giving birth to a baby.
To keep them as safe as possible from injury, I very carefully rake the gravel with my fingers and remove every single rabbit snail I can find and place them gently in a bucket. Then I can safely gravel vacuum their aquarium and put them back as soon as the debris settles again.
I also squeeze the sponge filters in a separate bucket to break up the bio-film and make sure they aren’t clogged and that water is still flowing through them well and replace filter media as needed.
