Snail Eggs

[confusion]

I have 4 ivory snails (the petsmart kind - don't know their scientific name). This morning, I found on stuck to the bottom of my glass cover and it was in the process of sticking several hundred eggs (at least they look like eggs) to the glass. The snail eventually went back to the water, but the eggs are sticking to the glass still.

I'm a little confused - I thought these things wouldn't reproduce unless they had just the right conditions. Anyone else have this happen?

 

[confusion]

So, the eggs are already hatching and little tiny ivory snails are emerging. Looks like there will be over 100 of them - yikes.

 

[dizzied]

Snails don't need specific conditions to breed. They just do.

I always thought Petsmart sold the pomacea bridgesii, but their eggs take weeks to hatch. Strange, I didn't know of any that hatched within hours.

 

[puddle_inc]

actually apple snails, mystery snails and those types do need good conditions. they are not like pond snails. they have to have warm water, plants, plenty of food, good water, so on. they don't breed just any time they feel like it. so dizzied your kind of wrong.

congrats on the snail eggs. are oyu planning on breeding more? about to pm something

 

[dizzied]

I'm not, my own mystery snails lays eggs like clockwork even when given bad conditions.

 

[confusion]

I have no idea how or why or any other details about them. I got up this morning to turn on the lights and noticed a snail on the bottom of the glass hood with a gigantic sacks of eggs. I can't say for sure how long the eggs have been around, but they weren't on the hood last night. The tank is HEAVILY planted, so it's possbily the snail could have been carrying them for a while.

I took a close look at them, and some of the egg sacks are open and empty. Looking around on the glass, I see tiny little ivory snails. Not too many yet, but some.

Is it a problem that the eggs are, in fact, out of the water?

 

[dizzied]

I do believe what you have is pomacea bridgesii, there aren't a whole lot of ivory white snails. They do lay eggs above the waterline, usually attached to the hood or canopy as in your case, but usually takes weeks to hatch, and not just hours.

 

[confusion]

I think you're right after looking at the species guide.

 

[shaz3271]

hi there sounds like you have pomacea bridgesii there

the eggs are layed out of the water if they get too wet the eggs drowned so thats why they lay them out of the water

the eggs take 2-4 weeks to hatch depending on humidity and temprature

they eat exactly what the parents eat so just put in a little extra food for them

this is a great website will tell you all you need to know

www.applesnail.net

if you need to know anything more just pm me im always glad to help

 

[confusion]

So, they all hatched. I don't have an accurate count because of all the plants, but I believe I have somewhere between 40 and 80 babies. I've started moving some into other tanks. Some are very small - almost unnoticable, and some are quite large.

 

[fishboy619]

if you cant/dont want to keep them, im sure one fish shop will want them, they arent just common annoying snails, but pretty ones that people want to buy, you may even get cradit/money for them.well done for getting them to breed and good luck with raising them

 

[confusion]

I like them very much. The one problem I have had is that my fish like to nip at them, and killed a whole bunch about 6 months ago. No, it wasn't a loach, they were swordtails.

I had a swordtail blight that wiped just about all of them out shortly after that incident, so they're pretty safe for now, though I have noticed that one of my dwarf gouramis likes to try to munch on one of the adults.

I was quite suprised - I didn't think that they would breed in an aquarium, at least that was what I read.

I'll wait until they get a bit bigger to decide what to do. At the rate my MTS is progressing, I may need all those snails and more.