Eggs

[rfisher]

thats great
your going to be over run
well you can always send some my way

good luck cant wait to see what colour they are i want some blue

I will give you a shout when they hatch. Some bad news though the batch that was in the main tank have been knocked off of the lid and disappeared into the tank somewhere,

Fingers crossed for the other three.

Rich

 

[Lynz781]

Aww sorry to hear about one of the clutches . I so can't wait to see pics of the snails though!!

 

[rfisher]

Hi All,

I am sorry to have to say but, none of the eggs have hatched, I dont think they were fertilised. I went to carry out some maintenance on the tank that they are in and noticed that the clusters did not look too good and there was a strange smell, not really bad but noticeable. Anyway I had a closer look at the clusters and noticed that had pretty much completely dried up. I had a quick look on the Applesnail website and read a couple of items on that site, followed a couple of suggestions and broke open the clusters and there was not a snail anywhere just a lot of smelly fluid.

Hopefully they will lay again soon and get it right this time. Sorry to those that I promised some snails too but maybe next time.

Rich

 

[shaz3271]

Hi All,

I am sorry to have to say but, none of the eggs have hatched, I dont think they were fertilised. I went to carry out some maintenance on the tank that they are in and noticed that the clusters did not look too good and there was a strange smell, not really bad but noticeable. Anyway I had a closer look at the clusters and noticed that had pretty much completely dried up. I had a quick look on the Applesnail website and read a couple of items on that site, followed a couple of suggestions and broke open the clusters and there was not a snail anywhere just a lot of smelly fluid.

Hopefully they will lay again soon and get it right this time. Sorry to those that I promised some snails too but maybe next time.

Rich

oh so sorry , you will maybe have better luck next time , i think i have read somewhere that the first few times dont hatch .
sharon

 

[rfisher]

Thanks Shaz. Lets hope so. I will get some to you one day,

Rich

 

[littleme1969]

Hi sorry to hear they didnt hatch, but I did point out earlier that the first few batches often dont
One thing I have learned from my own breeding of these guys is they do better in larger tanks.
I had some in a small 8 gallon tank, they laid lots of eggs and non ever hatched. I then bought some more and added them to the 30g corner tank and got results straight away. Happy snails= fertile eggs. Mine are pretty predictable, you see them mating one day, and find eggs the next. But even with my mass breeding and egg laying situation, I only get about 40% hatch rate from the eggs, and probably only about 10% of them survive to grow into adults. Its pretty hit and miss, unless you are breeding them in a snail only tank with crushed coral for gravel (Keeps the calcium high in the water) and I would say at least 10gallons or more as they seem to enjoy space and moving around.