Mysterious Snail question?

Question

I inherited some mysterious snails when I purchased an aquarium plant. So far I've found three and there may be more. Two of them are the size of a pea and one the size of a small popcorn kernal. My question is: when do they start laying eggs? There appears to be an egg bundle on my filter. Other than the snails, my other tank inhabitants are 3 skirted tetra, 6 neons, and one placo which I also inherited with the plant. Anyone have any idea who laid the eggs?

Answer 1

I'd say the "pea girl" did it, you should see some milky little dots forming in the egg mass shortly. These are the little snail embryos, if you have good eyes you can see the entire development and hatch into a snail. RScott

Answer 2

You have to watch out for snails because they will lay eggs and suddenly there will be a couple hundred snails oozing around in your tank, destroying your plants. You never want to buy plants from a pet store. Always from a nursery or distributor. Try Aquariumplants.com. ive ordered from them several times and ive never had a snail problem.

But no, im not sure who else could have laid the eggs. all of your other fish are egg layers, but im not sure who would have laid them.

Answer 3

They are aren't tetra, or pleco eggs. Which leaves snails. Depending on the type of snail they may laid eggs quite early and often. The gilled snails like the common pond snail, and ramshorns can grow out of control wildly. Although generally this is due to over feeding your fish as much as any thing. Aplple/mystery snails are generally not a problem.

Getting rid of them can be hard. you can fish for them with a piece of vegetable, but your pelco may just eat it. There are chemical treatment, but they are hard on your fish. A khuli/coolie loach, clown loach, or any Botia loach will happily eat snails. Personally I'd get a loach, and watch out for over feeding.

Answer 4

They are definately snail eggs

If you want to get rid of them, try the vegetable bait

Just before you turn off the light, put a lettuce piece in there and hold it down with a decoration, in the morning you can just collect it




Hope that helps
good luck


EB

Answer 5

They're almost definitely snail eggs, and you probably ought to take the whole pile of them out before they hatch. It's more work getting rid of them later. Though, if you're very careful not to overfeed your fish, and you're vacuuming your gravel well, they won't completely overpopulate your tank. They'll only breed as many as there's food for.

Answer 6

no longer stupid, it got here approximately to me at one element from stay flora. be careful or they'll over run your tank. and that they are nasty little critters. and don't have faith that specific ones won't proliferate. all of them do. i attempted many techniques to get rid of them and all appeared to fail. i are conscious of it could sound heartless, yet get some snail away. that's what ultimately cleared my tank up. And it does not harm your fish.

Answer 7

Not me.