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Hey guys! Hope you are all doing well😊. As the title says, I need some help from experienced snail keepers regarding the rabbit snail diet as my lil guys (4 Poso Orange Rabbits) seem to be not super interested in the many food options I provide. I have read so many forum posts and articles and watched so many videos about rabbit snail care and snail food requirements in general both prior to getting them and afterwards to make sure I give them the best care. But I really need opinions of you guys at this point. I have a separate rabbit snail tank for them. My water parameters actually meet their requirements, a ph of 8.2 with hard water. I keep them at 27 Celcius. And the tank is cycled for sure. I don't wanna go into details to make the post even longer to read. But in my main tank, I have 4 nerite snails and so many MTS that all have perfect shells. I have had them for almost 2 weeks now and overall they seem to be happy and are quite active. As of now, I've tried to feed them blanched collard greens, spinach, zucchini, broccoli, carrots, pumpkin, brussel sprouts, green beans, sweet potato and peas. We buy our stuff from the organic farmers market and keep the extra frozen food in our freezer from their original season, so all these foods are ready to be blanced any time! From all the veggies I've mentioned, they really seemed to be eating green beans and collard greens but not always as if they eat collard greens one day they don't eat it again 2 days later. For others, like pumpkin or carrot, all I can see is really small nibs taken from it over the night. I feed either once or twice a day with different food each meal. From fish food options, I've tried Hikari Algae wafers, crab cuisine, NLS Algaemax and Omega1 freshwater flakes. NLS has been nibbed a lil bit once, but others were ignored. I made 2 different snellos with the mix of the abovementioned veggies, fish food with the addition of crushed&powedered eggshell of our own chickens' egg for calcium and agar-agar as a replacement of gelatin. They do not seem interested at all even when left in the tank overnight. I have a couple shrimp with them and they seem to be more interested in the snello but not the snails :( Btw, I keep a small piece of natural cuttlebone in their tank just in case they wanna nib. I see people have their snails swarming all over the food directly so I feel worried that mine are not:( Could you guys help me or give me any suggestions regarding their diet? Am I doing anything wrong? Considering they are active and looking healthy at the end of 2 weeks, maybe the really small amount of random nibs they have on the food I provide is enough? I'm just worried that they rarely nib on blanched veggies I provide and directly ignore any fish food so they lack protein in their diet. I feed my other tanks frozen spiriluna bloodworms and brine shrimp and freeze dried tubifex worms once a week. Maybe I should give them a try? Thanks for the help in advance 🤍 🐌

I have mystery snails, pond snails and nerite snails. I wanted something a bit different. I was looking at rabbit snails. Does anyone have them? What do you think of them?

Hi, I'm a perplexed snail farmer. I have a 40 gallon with 3 types of rabbit snails, many Japanese trap door snails, a few stow away pond snails, and an exploding population of red rilli shrimp. I saw a small clear blob - not snail eggs - on some guppy grass. I pulled the grass out. Today I see huge ones - big as a quarter - but circular like a bubble attached to my awesome Aquarium Co-Op sponge filter. Is it a type of parasite? I have looked around on the internet and every thing I find says snail eggs. I know better that is not what it is. Especially given the type of snails in that tank. Plus the first bloobs I saw were less than pea size - today three large blobs on the sponge filter. HELP -- save me from the blobs!!!! (Thank you in advance!)

I’m curious if any of you have experience breeding rabbit snails.

@CoryI had bought 1 yellow rabbit snail and 2 mystery snails about 10 weeks ago from petco. The rabbit snail was in my glofish community tank and the mystery snails were in my betta tank. I put the rabbit snail in the betta tank about 8 days ago so I could treat my glofish tank with salt. There is now a baby rabbit snail in the betta tank with 1 betta, the 2 mystery snails, and my 1 Rabbit snail... How is this possible? It couldn't be a hybrid can it? Or did it maybe get pregnant at pet store more then 10 weeks ago?

Hello I have bought a wonderful rabbit snail, but I caught it nibbling at my java ferns and after a quick google search they tend to have a appetite for ferns. I was wondering If anyone can tell me if they will try to eat other plants. I know Anubias isn't tempting enough but are there any others, personally I don't want to risk it as aquarium plants can be a bit pricey here in the UK. I have done research but this isn't exactly a broad topic. (this is my first time on a forum so I hope I'm doing this correctly.) Kind regards.