I somehow ended up with 2 Nerite snails and I'm now finding Nerite eggs.
I got a Zebra nerite snail when I got a plant and found him in the bag with the plant when I got home. I got a tiger Nerite snail when I saw him in a tank with over 20 Assassin snails and I felt bad for him.
I have a few questions:
How would I go about hatching Nerite snail eggs?
Could a Zebra nerite and Tiger nerite produce fertile eggs or are the eggs I'm finding infertile?
I know the eggs need saltwater to hatch. I would use aquarium salt in a 4 liter bucket but how much salt should I add for them?
If the eggs hatch I'm pretty sure the babies need to be moved to brackish water. How would I transition them to Brackish water?
If the eggs hatch when can I move the babies to my Freshwater tanks?
How long do Nerite eggs take to hatch?
What should I feed the baby snails?
Thanks for reading! Any help is greatly appreciated! I know breeding nerite snails is really hard and it's probably better to just buy some more if I want them but I feel like breeding them would be really interesting and it would be amazing if I got any baby Nerites out of it!
I got a Zebra nerite snail when I got a plant and found him in the bag with the plant when I got home. I got a tiger Nerite snail when I saw him in a tank with over 20 Assassin snails and I felt bad for him.
I have a few questions:
How would I go about hatching Nerite snail eggs?
Could a Zebra nerite and Tiger nerite produce fertile eggs or are the eggs I'm finding infertile?
I know the eggs need saltwater to hatch. I would use aquarium salt in a 4 liter bucket but how much salt should I add for them?
If the eggs hatch I'm pretty sure the babies need to be moved to brackish water. How would I transition them to Brackish water?
If the eggs hatch when can I move the babies to my Freshwater tanks?
How long do Nerite eggs take to hatch?
What should I feed the baby snails?
Thanks for reading! Any help is greatly appreciated! I know breeding nerite snails is really hard and it's probably better to just buy some more if I want them but I feel like breeding them would be really interesting and it would be amazing if I got any baby Nerites out of it!
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