Sulawesi Snails

[Tizer]

Picked 3 up today, was wondering if anyone else keeps them? Any infos etc.

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

As in Rabiit Snails? If so, what type did you get?

I have a mixed species breeding colony of ~20 including two ~0.5cm youngsters (mostly "golden" and "orange spotted", but I may have a singleton "yellow antennae" left). I have been looking to sell tham on for some time, but have had no intrest in them locally via AC, really ought to have done an advert here by now for them and other non-African fish I'm looking to find suitable homes for rather than get their true market value for.

As time has gone by, I have found it increasingly difficult to give these snails a "mega peaceful" tank to live in, especially in recent times when I have two Steatocranus casuarius nursery tanks on the go for 44 "teenagers" and 4 "relatively newborns" (as I discovered nearly two years ago to my horror that my first Steatocranus was feasting on the antennae of my poor Rabbits!). Besides the more obvious Weather Loaches and my male Aborichthys elongatus fondness of any snails, I then discovered my Ilyodon xantusi livebearers like the taste of snail too last autumn.

They are easily spooked by tankmates and so can be easily outcompeted for food, I hate to admit I've lost a fair few presumeably to starvation (I was amazed to find newborns in the Rio240 recently, as my four Hoplos are like vultures whenever food is on offer). Back when I had a very peaceful 620T (Hypoptopoma spp. catfish; Synodontis nigriventris; Pangio doriae) at 25C with my U4 filter, they did really well (they only had my peaceful Hypoptopoma to food-compete with in the daytime) and singleton newborns were produced like clockwork. They tended to eat whatever I added for the fish (mainly Tetra Prima, Hikari algae wafers, defrosted bloodworm), in addition to the Hikari "Crab Cuisine" I added specifically for them to keep their shells in good condition. In the last week I've resorted to putting them in a hand-on breeding net, so that I can target feed them.

 

[Tizer]

PFK did this article on them and the ones i have are near identical to those in the first picture and a good 2 inches in size.

My 90 litre tank has next to nothing in it now, 4 rams, 2 tank bred males and 2 newly imported wild females which won't be ready to pair up with a male for a good few months. I noticed these snails like the higher temps, so I thought, why not! £18 for 3 was quite a price, for snails, but feh, I'd not seen them around before and I thought they were quite different.

 

[jojouk]

Those snails look awesome

 

[Tizer]

One of mine

 

[syd_the_rabbitsnail]

I keep a breeding colony of Goldens/yellows/gold spot/white spot and devils thorn in their own tanks. They are super snails to keep and are not at all shy. I keep all mine in sand substrate with plants. I feed them on crab food and algae wafers and found they dont touch the plants this way. The oldest snail i have is a golden female who is now 3 years old and HUGE!! I adore my sulaweis's they are adorable I usually have youngsters for sale
just be careful with them with dwarf cichlids, they tend to like to nip at their antennae I found that dwarf rainbows work well with them and I've kept dario dario with them too. But For better results I've pout them into their own tanks.

 

[mattyeatsmatts]

lovely looking snail Tizer

 

[Tizer]

Found about 10 little white sacks on the substrate this morning, clumped together, didn't realise they effectively laid clutches of eggs, i thought it was just the odd one here and there! Looks like these guys can actually produce quite a few eggs at once! Might get my money back one day after all

 

[Tizer]

I've had 1 per month from my Trio so far, so i have half a dozen babies growing up at the moment. Very cool little snail