The Corydoras seemed hardy to me, yet my first three died in less than two months. You likely know the feeling—it is truly disheartening when a creature in your aquarium dies. For a long time, I truly believed it was just bad luck. But that wasn’t the case at all—the fault was mine. The real […]
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I have a funny story about these Rabbit Snails; when I first saw the Orange Rabbit Snail on an online aquarium site, I thought it was just a gimmick or a publicity stunt. It had a neon-orange shell, a wrinkled face resembling an elephant’s trunk, and a slow, leisurely pace—like a retired mailman relaxing on
The first time I noticed two assassin snails locked together and barely moving at the bottom of my 20-gallon tank in my fish room, I panicked. I thought something was wrong. I almost reached in to “help.” Thank God I didn’t, because they were mating, and I would have interrupted what turned out to be
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Okay, confession time. The first time I spotted a blue mystery snail at my local fish store, I genuinely stopped and stared. I stood there with my mouth open while some guy with a 10-gallon fish bag nudged past me. Because I’d kept ramshorn snails, rabbit snails, assassin snails — but this? This was something
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There is a specific reason why I am writing this post about Assassin Snail care: I can never forget the morning I discovered—to my surprise—that around 400 Ramshorn snails had suddenly taken over my community tank. For a few days, I was so baffled that I simply watched; eventually, they completely overran the tank. Then,
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The first time I noticed ramshorn snail eggs in my 20-gallon planted tank in my home, I panicked. My first thought? “Did I just accidentally start a snail farm?” My second thought — after a quick Google at midnight — was that half the internet makes ramshorn snail breeding sound way more complicated, or way
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I’ll be honest with you — I almost flushed my first ramshorn snail down the toilet. It was 2011. I was setting up my first planted 20-gallon community tank in my Home, excited, nervous, doing everything “right.” Then I noticed these tiny spiral-shelled creatures multiplying in the corner behind my Amazon sword. Six became sixty
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I’ll be honest — when I first got into rabbit snails, I thought breeding them would be a nightmare. I’d already gone through the whole “mystery snail drama” (don’t ask about the 200 eggs I found plastered to my hood), so I was worried about rabbit snails breeding, too. But then something happened that I
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