Snail Egg Growth Pics

[Anonymous]

I found these snail eggs in one of my tanks on 7/13. Here is a growth progression

7/13 - The hash marks are millimeters

7/15 - You can see the embryos dividing

7/18 - you can see more division and the formation of some shells

As you can see, some of the egg mass has been lost, but a majority is still intact.

7/20 more shells visable

for more pics click Here

[ July 20, 2001: Message edited by: ATLANTIS ]

 

[Nathan1]

Nice post man!

I have those eggs too sometimes, but they always get eaten before too long (like a couple of days). It's really cool to see the babies developing! Reminds me of some of my biology classes, watching human eggs divide.

-Nathan

 

[Anonymous]

I have no predators in this tank, so they will probably survive to hatch.

 

[danmhippo]

Off the topic, but what camera are you using? are you using any macro lens?

 

[Anonymous]

camera is a nikon coolpix 990
tiffen +10 & +7 closeup lens

 

[Anonymous]

I just added another pic to the sequence above