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Snail Eggs!!! Now what?????

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#1 ·
Ok so i was looking at my tank today. I was examining the little white specs on the glass [which i think now are algae or SOMETHING i still really dont know what it is] and i was looking around, and guess what i found?! A sticky goupy glob of what looks like snail eggs. I tried to take a pic but my camera sucks and i cant get a good pic. its like this glob of goop with little specs in it. they look like eggs with white dots. what should i do? D:
 
#3 ·
Are they snail eggs or fish eggs? how big are they?
 
#4 ·
I see pond snail eggs on my tank walls all the time, but most of the time the eggs get eaten or I just never happen to see the babies. Yet my snail population stays stable so obviously some survive. Good luck finding out what they are.
 
#6 ·
If you dont want a bunch of snails then i would take them out. But if they could be fish egg i would leave them. Up you tho.
 
#13 ·
I dont know of any one that would want to put them kind of snails in ther tank. Unless it was asasian snails, apple snails ect. It dont take long for little snails to over run a tank. What kind of snails do you have>?
 
#21 ·
They're most likely snail eggs. I put 6 ramshorn snails in a TINY beta tank about a week and a half ago and already there are eggs on the walls!

It's up to you to keep them or not, I personally don't care about snails. In fact right now I want more to feed to my dwarf puffer! They won't really harm you're tank, in fact they may clean it a bit :)
 
#22 ·
yeah i have four ramshorns right now and three egg clusters

how long do they take to hatch?
are there any signs that they are close to hatching?
how long do they take to get big enough to give out to people?
how would i ship them to people? [like you MXS] since i dont really need them for food. i use them as cleaners.
 
#23 · (Edited)
i found a fourth cluster on a plant :p they're gunna be all over the place

also do Ramshorn shails "mate?"
one snail is like stuck to another snail. the bigger snail is just trudgin around the tank noming like it normally would but the other one is like curled up outside of it's shell and stuck to the bigger one?

EDIT:
found another cluster in my fry tank XD
so im up to five clusters of snails
 
#24 · (Edited)
To be honest, I don't pay a lot of attention to my ramshorns. The eggs probably hatch within a week. I would guess that within a few weeks time, they are big enough to be shipped.

Although they do not need a mate to breed, I think they still mate.

I ship mine priority mail in breather bags with some moss and a little water. A bag from the fish store would work. Some people just wrap the snails in wet paper towels and place in a sandwich bag.
You need to keep in mind where they are being shipped and what the climate is like. Hot, you need to add an ice pack, cold weather you will need a heat pack.
 
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