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Peaceful but slow.
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Peaceful but slow. Needs warm, hard, alkaline water and stable conditions.
Algae wafers, vegetables and calcium-rich foods.
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Sexes are separate, but males and females cannot be told apart externally.
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Live-bearing (one baby at a time) · Moderate
Live-bearing: the female releases one fully formed young snail at a time, in a milky-white sac it soon eats, every few weeks.
Keep 3-5 in a group and let them pair up.
40 L tank with hard alkaline water, rocks, wood and a sand base.
Stable warm water and regular feeding.
Females usually hold 1-7 embryos in the brood pouch at once; newborn shells are 0.5-9.3 mm high, and young are released singly every few weeks.
Baby snails look like adults and graze on biofilm; leave them in the tank.
A rabbit snail named after Lake Towuti in Sulawesi, where it lives; it is part of the ornamental aquarium trade. Yellow-bodied rabbit snails are often sold as Tylomelania sp. "Yellow", so the trade animal may not be this species.
This rabbit snail was described in 1913 from Lake Towuti, the largest of Sulawesi's Malili lakes. Yellow-bodied forms from the lake became popular in the hobby as 'yellow rabbit snails'.
First described by J. H. Kruimel in 1913. Named for Named after Lake Towuti.
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Invertebrate: freshwater livebearing snail (pachychilid gastropod). The name is valid (Kruimel, 1913; originally Melania towutica), but the trade "yellow rabbit snail" is usually sold as Tylomelania sp. "Yellow", i.e. not identified to species. The match to T. towutica is not confirmed by a scientific source; treat as provisional.
WoRMS / MolluscaBase record: Tylomelania towutica (accessed 2026-10-16) · Aqualibs: Tylomelania sp. "Yellow" (Yellow Rabbit Snail)New value.
WoRMS / MolluscaBase record: Tylomelania towutica (accessed 2026-10-16) · Wikipedia: TylomelaniaNo shell size found for T. towutica itself. The hobby page for T. sp. "Yellow" gives 7-10 cm.
Aqualibs: Tylomelania sp. "Yellow" (Yellow Rabbit Snail)Genus-level hobby data (Tylomelania spp.); no species-specific figure. Fishkeeper: Sulawesi waters never drop below 26 °C.
Aquarium Breeder: Rabbit Snail – Detailed Guide: Care, Diet and Breeding · Fishkeeper (Maidenhead Aquatics): Sulawesi Snail, Tylomelania spp.Genus-level hobby data.
Fishkeeper (Maidenhead Aquatics): Sulawesi Snail, Tylomelania spp. · Aquarium Breeder: Rabbit Snail – Detailed Guide: Care, Diet and BreedingNew value (legacy none). Natural lake water is soft but alkaline (GH about 7 in the Matano/Towuti shallows); optimal GH 6-8, tolerated 4-12. Legacy "hard water" wording is wrong: soft-to-moderate, alkaline water.
Aquarium Breeder: Rabbit Snail – Detailed Guide: Care, Diet and Breeding · Fishkeeper (Maidenhead Aquatics): Sulawesi Snail, Tylomelania spp.15 US gal = 57 L (yellow rabbit snail page). Genus-level guide gives 40-80 L. Legacy 40 L.
Aqualibs: Tylomelania sp. "Yellow" (Yellow Rabbit Snail) · Aquarium Breeder: Rabbit Snail – Detailed Guide: Care, Diet and BreedingGenus-level hobby source only ("or even longer with some more luck"); legacy 3-5 years is unsourced.
Aquarium Breeder: Rabbit Snail – Detailed Guide: Care, Diet and BreedingSubstrate-dwelling grazer; prefers sand.
Aquarium Breeder: Rabbit Snail – Detailed Guide: Care, Diet and BreedingLegacy 2 (moderate); hobby source rates keeping easy as long as water is warm and alkaline.
Aquarium Breeder: Rabbit Snail – Detailed Guide: Care, Diet and BreedingNew value.
Wikipedia: Tylomelania towuticaWikipedia cites von Rintelen & Glaubrecht 2005 (Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 85: 513-542). Legacy "one large egg at a time ... every 1-2 months" is wrong on the embryo count.
Wikipedia: Tylomelania towutica · Aqualibs: Tylomelania sp. "Yellow" (Yellow Rabbit Snail)Legacy "yellow body" is not confirmed for T. towutica in a scientific source.
Wikipedia: Tylomelania towutica · Aqualibs: Tylomelania sp. "Yellow" (Yellow Rabbit Snail)