since my betta died in my 2.5 gallon ive had 2 snails just slowly growing and crawling around, there weird, like transparent with little blueish dots on there shells. i wish i could get a picture but my camera isnt the best, so ill have to try eventually. anyways i think there breeding, because now theres 4 snails ive seen. and i know its not above water because ive checked and also below water (near my gravel) theres 2 little transparent sacks with 9-10 little dots in there. the snails really love the tank, theres a small amount of green algae on the walls and some big chunks on the floor, along with a banana plant i need to get out of there since there devouring its leaves. i need an ID on these guys asap. ill post pictures soon.
I hate to triple post but no ones replying and last night they laid 5 more sets of eggs! another smaill set on the back wall, two on the left wall and 2 on the right!! i have a total of 7 now! i got a blurry pic of one of the bigger clutches
Oh and i just found another large clutch righ baove the intake of the filter.
I can't tell from your pics what kind of snails those are. I have an apple snail and don't know much about other kinds of snails.
Since they are laying eggs under water, I can say that they are not pomecea bridgesii (one of they types of apple snails). Though I think the pomecea canaliculata do, but they grow to be huge, like softballs. So I don't think that's what you've got either.
Try wandering over to http://www.applesnail.net. Under the discussion forums there are sections on identifying snails. That might help. There is also a section on other snails, which might have pictures.
They are deffinately eggs... Are you talking about a gooey looking sack with little white dots in them? I had alot of those on my hornwort. Deffinately snail eggs.
yes definatly gooey sacs with eggs!! HELP I HAVE SUPER HORNY SNAILS IN MY TANK!! i just actually watched both of them lay a clutch at almost the same time!! i now have 10 or so gooey egg clutches!! i think they might be ramshorn, but they dont have the usual coloring for a ramshorn so...
forget that, im excited! i have an extra 10 gallon i might start setting up today to houes these guys, considering this is all taking place in a 2.5 gal! heres a weird thing, the freshly lain eggs are just kind of greeish tinted circles in a mucusy sac, and the 1 or 2 day old are a greenish tint circle with a smaall little white dot in the middle. also i noticed the eggs come out of the side of there shells, near there eyes kind of
Cool! Keep us posted. Did you ever figure out what kind of snails they are?
I've only got one snail 'cause I don't want to raise babies and I'm not sure I could freeze any eggs. Wimp! I'm such a wimp! But snails are so much fun, aren't they?
definatly great fun. yeah fish_4_all let me know they were common ramshorn snails so thats pretty cool. not too much is going on right now, i think its a lunch break for the little guys.
last night the little guys/girls laid another 2 clutches, i now have 12 overall. the first clutches that were laid 3 days ago have visible little white dots that get bigger by the hour. there about the width of your thumbnail right now.
There was also a miscarraige if you will, a batch of eggs that came out half all mushed togethor, 1 just a white circle (fungus?) and only about 2 real eggs, but those 2 look fine so im hopeful.
If you get a 2.5g full of hundreds of snails, could you send me any you don't want? My puffers love them and I definitely can't breed them in the puffer tank. I tried breeding them in another tank but my Kribs made short work of 'em. Lucky you!
UPDATE: feb. 20th
the first lutch laid are looking good, definatly growing into tiny snails, im leaving the lights on 24/7 just so i can grow the algae. they laid 1 more clutch on the front glass, one on the no fishing sign, and 3 on the red ludwigia. i think thats a total of.. 17?
UPDATE: feb. 23rd
since last time there are at least 4 more clutches, and the very first one that was laid has hatched out most of its inhabitants (i think either 1 hasnt hatched or its not going to). i now i have the 2 big snail parents, the 2 small ones that i found, and at least 4 baby snails (most likely more that i havent spotted yet), but that first clutch was the smallest, the clutches only get bigger!
sure is, i just spotted another 2, and 1 is doing the thing where it uses the surface tension of the water to walk under it! thats reeaaly cool looking
Well its going steady now, ongoing cycle of hatching eggs every day and laing eggs everyday, ive got alot more big ones now and alot of the small ones are recognisable as snails. im moving them into the new 10 gallon tonight.
UPDATE: March 15th
I moved the snails i was able to pick up to a new 10 gallon not too long ago, theres now 8 snails that are roughly half an inch in diameter and a million little guys in the 10 and in the 2.5. all of the eggs have hatched in my 2.5 im just waiting until i can get ahold of them. also theres 36+ egg sacks in my 10 im so happy! and there confirmed to be blue ramshorns which are said to be decently rare in certain areas so im really happy about that!
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