Mama rabbit snails are very sensitive to sudden changes in water conditions. Such a change can cause them to give birth to a premature baby. The little guys usually live, BUT they typically have a reddish shell. As they grow, the normal coloration slowly takes over. This creates a cool bicolor shell for quite awhile!
After searching online and in various pet stores for TWO YEARS, I have finally located enough yellow spotted rabbit snail adults to have a breeding group. This means in the future I may be able to offer a very limited number of babies. Watch for updates 🙂
It’s been a rough road trying to acquire the yellow spotted rabbit snail over the last two years. I am up to 5 adults and 15 juveniles made up of the rare petstore find and a few purchased from other hobbyists online. I have not succeeded in finding any additional adults that may be old enough to breed. Hopefully with some patience, the juvenile snails will grow up to form a small breeding group. The current adults may possibly all be the same gender because I haven’t seen any proof of breeding despite the fact that they seem to like my aquarium conditions (they are quite active and dive in with the mystery snails to eat snello and vegetables such as cut organic green beans). The photographs below show the variety of patterning on this species as well as the unique antennae coloration.
Florida Mystery Snails 