Snail Egg Pic

[Anonymous]

I just found this in one of my prop tanks, thought I would share

I have several unidentified snails in the tank, so I have no idea who layed them.

The hash marks on the ruler are millimeters

here is the Link to some of the snail pics.

 

[danmhippo]

I have those egg strands from time to time too. I have both Astrea and turbo....Go figure.

Oh, baby snails? Never seen them. Probably are all food or skimmed out before they had any chance of reaching adulthood.

 

[Anonymous]

Numerous species of snails lay eggs in that pattern including Astrias and Ceriths and from the pics on your Site you have both. It's also possible you have species of snails in your system that you've never seen that are laying those eggs.
Here are a couple of pics of a baby Cerith and a baby Astria both are no larger than 2mm.

And while you may not see babies immediately as they are being preyed upon by your other critters you'll be surprised how many actually survive and are residing in your live rock.

Regards,
David Mohr

[ July 13, 2001: Message edited by: davidmohr ]

 

[Doughboy]

I had snail eggs of the glass about six weels ago. For a while I thought they had all died, ,then suddenly I'm seeing a dozen very small snails. Pretty neat.

 

[Anonymous]

I have thousands of these snail reproducing all the time.... The dark circle is a dime

This is the first egg strand I have seen in ages.

 

[Anonymous]

Here is a New Snail Egg Pic

It is 266K, so I chose not to post it direct...

You can see the embryos starting to devide