Recently I added 2 more nassarius snails to my tank; I had 1 nassarius already in the tank. Yesterday I didn't turn the lights on because I’m trying different ways to combat a bad algae outbreak. Anyways before I went to sleep I glance at the tank and saw the nassarius doing something weird in the glass. Today when I turned the lights, on the glass was a bunch of eggs about 2 inches long by 1/2 inch wide.

Does anybody have any experience with nassarius breeding in captivity?
Any suggestions

Does anybody have any experience with nassarius snails?

The chance of them surviving is fairly small. Anything else in the tank will eat them. Once they dislodge or hatch your filters and pumps can kill them. My ceriths lay eggs all the time and my Margarites constantly release eggs and sperm into the water column. My fish love it when this happens...free food.

Maybe yours will make it....ya never know!

so maybe their chance of survival is higher since i only keep a lonely fish. in the other hand is a six line wrasse you know how currious they are. I barely feed my wrasse ( 2 times a week), he survives on the tons of bristtle worms living in the sand.

If you have a six line then whatever comes out of those eggs is screwed. If the six line even lets them hatch lol.

is the larvae a small replica of their parents or is free floating?

ive had one baby surrvive, hes a little cmaller than the parents... bout half the size; howevr i ahvent seen him in a month or so

thanks! i'll keep you posted whatever happens

i had one b4 in my 10 gallon and a year after i have like 25-50 babies maybe 100. and they look like a replica of the mom. then my tank crash and just trow all of them away. i didnt know they were good by that time. lolz

I saw a baby one pop out of the sand two weeks ago about 1/4 the size of my adults. Its a relatively small chance but not a possibility.

free snails and free food for your tank