Baby Astraea Or Turbo Snails?

[xxBarneyxx]

Basically for the last couple of months I havent been home for more than a few minutes a day and other then doing water changes and daily feeding I have hardly even looked at my tank during this time (and to be honest it seems to be doing better for it!!)

Over the weekend while I was doing a water change I noticed a tiny (about 3mm across) snail in my ruge/frag tank. After looking a bit closer I noticed maybe half a dozen of them in there. I havent seen any in the display tank so far (not saying they are not there, just havent seen them). They look just like miniture turbo/Astraea Snails.

Is it possible that the snails I have had have bred (which I thought was pretty difficult) or is it more likely to be some form of small hitch hiker snail I just havent seen before?

 

[VictorMeldrew]

Hi Barney

I have found smaller snails in my tank aswell, i put it down to hitchhikers but now i am not so sure, maybe it is easier then people say. I first noticed smaller snail type things hanging on the back of the bigger ones but they did not appear to have much of a shell and soon dissappeared. it would be great if they did bread in tanks would'nt it, free CUC

Regards
VM

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Yeah it would Even though I havent added anything new to the tank for a few months though I guess they could still be hitch hikers as I have had a whole bunch of filter feeding critters appear in my fuge as well which I dont see in the display (except the odd one or two).

 

[mutantbigman2000]

I had 2 spots of clear goo appear on my front glass yesterday one has 5 little dots in the other has 4.

I assume they are snail spawn and they will grow/hatch?

I felt the 2 spots in the tank and its hard and not soft.

 

[SkiFletch]

As long as they're not pyramidellid snails they're fine. Pyramidellids are parasitc snails that can prey on Astrea, Trochus, and other snails, as well as prey upon Tridacnid clams.

 

[seffieuk]

Trod also has baby snails which just appeared she has watched them grow from tiny dots, so we have to assume they have bred in the tank

Seffie x

 

[mutantbigman2000]

Just scraped my glass and forgot about the snail spawn

 

[BigBeginner]

i also had clear gooballs filled with tiny white dots on my glass but i had like 50 of them and they "hatched" and the white dots were gone, but i haven't seen any baby Nass or Astraeas in my tank yet (i only have 3 nass and 2 astraeas) so im guessing they were pods or something

and i thought snail eggs were like long zigzagy trails of white goo

EDIT: actually i just looked at my tank and one of my nass snails is on the glass and it looks like there is a trail of the eggsacks following it, and they are very evenly spaced apart, but i stil think they are pods because i have a very large pod population in my 8 gal (because i have nothing that eats them) and they are all over the glass and the eggsacks are ALL over the sides of the tank, there are like 100+ now

 

[Trod]

Yes, I definately have lots of little snails, and they are growing quiet fast will try to get some photos of them

 

[BigC]

Are you sure they are not baby Stomatella
much more common occurance.
Regards
BigC

 

[seffieuk]

Are you sure they are not baby Stomatella
much more common occurance.
Regards
BigC

Interesting, I had to go off and look that up

Seffie x

 

[Trod]

Oh no they are definately not them, (yes had to google them too )

Mine are cone shaped and look just like miniture astrea snails,

for some reason I can't add a picture, the attachments box normally at bottom isn't there

 

[Alex Brown]

I too have baby snails, about 2/3mm across

 

[xxBarneyxx]

Just as an update was wondering how everyone elses baby snails are getting on.

I had afew die off as they where growing but now have maybe 10-20 in my fuge that are about 5mm-1cm across now (and growing quickly). I have not seen any in my display tank at all.

 

[seffieuk]

I have a couple in my display area, must admit haven't looked in the back - they are too small to tell what they are yet, but certainly snails


I was wondering if they could be Nass V - mine seem to get jiggy quite a lot
Seffie x