Mystery Snail Question! Laid Eggs?

[Raechal]

Okay so a friend of mine bought two mystery snails for her ten gallon as petsmart told her they would be great algae eaters and would keep her tank super clean. Stupid petsmart!

After having them for a couple weeks they grew really fast and they were making the tank incredibly dirty. she asked me if i would like to take them. I had a spare 55 gallon with just two feeder fish my sister won at a fair. (Not being used a feeders, they are pets now and own the 55 gallon )

BUT I added the snails in there lastnight and woke up to a yellow-ish cream sack of eggs stuck to the side of the tank!

I have never owned snails before and don't know what to do. I don't want millions of snails in my tank that are going to end up getting that big as my 55 gallon isn't strongly filitered.

Any advice on what to do?

I woke up and though the snail got out of it's shell and was dried up and stuck to the glass. I was freaking out!

 

[saltynay]

They are apple snails with eggs like this:

You can just remove the clutch and chuck it in a sealed bin bag (just before the bin man comes unless you want to find them crawling around your garbage or place it in the water and the baby snails will drown and may feed the feeder fish. What are the feeder fish exactly?

 

[Raechal]

Aw I don't want to kill the poor things.

Will they continue to have eggs like crazy?

The feeder fish are just feeder goldies from the fair.

 

[saltynay]

Apple snails rarely become a pest snail they don't reproduce fast enpugh and the egg clutches are very easy to remove. If you do remove a clutch and put it in the water I would suspect the goldies would happily chow down on the baby snails as a nice treat for them. You can also sell on the baby apple snails quite easily through ebay, aquarist classfieds and the forums always someone around looking for some new snails.

 

[Raechal]

Apple snails rarely become a pest snail they don't reproduce fast enpugh and the egg clutches are very easy to remove. If you do remove a clutch and put it in the water I would suspect the goldies would happily chow down on the baby snails as a nice treat for them. You can also sell on the baby apple snails quite easily through ebay, aquarist classfieds and the forums always someone around looking for some new snails.

Aw thanks so much! I am excited to see them grow up. I will try to sell them if there are too many. Do you know how many babies they usually have?

 

[saltynay]

The average clutch contains 200-600 eggs but only 30-100 will survive. They react to water temperature and food availablity with fertility rates in colder temps dropping and in warmer water raising. They are amphibious and can live outside of the tank for several weeks so make sure you have a tight fitting lid.

 

[Night61]

i have dealt with them, i just want to warn you i still have plenty of baby snails from my clutch in December.
http/www.aquaticcommunity.com/inv/blackmysterysnail.php

http/www.petfish.net/kb/entry/177/

but here are some links that helped me. i suggest an incubator in and spare tank, they are very tiny when they first hatch and can be targeted by other fishes.
also be prepared, have food ready for them, algae wafers winking wafers or tums they take it all. yes tums have calcium and the snails will swarm it, they love it. if you have any questions about raising the baby snails i have been there, so feel free to pm me.