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njasmin

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I figured i would pick the brains of the marine biologists here :P I set up a nuvo 16 about a month ago from stock from my old 60 gallon. As far as the CUC i added about 3 astrea snails and 3 nassarius snails. After about 3 weeks i noticed a weird formation by the overflow...are these eggs?????

 

I'm sure this is a nassarius snail but the shell looks a little weird with some eerie type antennae. Any help with ID would be appreciated, Also, should this be something i monitor closely as i have had a snail outbreak before(freshwater), or will this be beneficial to the system?

 

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Thank you for all the responses! I'm just wondering how this came to be in my tank? I use all existing LR. I have added a few frags and i put new live sand in the tank...had to have been a hitch hiker on one of those. :wacko:

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nassarius snail eggs are normally in high flow area so that would be my guess as well. Snail is stomatella, i have a bunch.

Also, that formation is right by my powerhead, the pic was taken before the eggs appeared. Do u think an outbreak will happen?

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2 different snails. the eggs were from nassarius and they almost never hatch. stommatella eggs are whit oval and can be anywhere. either snail is good to have the one just being a little more odd looking.

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