ehwood Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Hi all. I have a lone nassarius snail with a rather bland, dark shell from my local fish store, and it has just laid eggs. I'm wondering if perhaps it had been impregnated prior to my getting it? It's been a couple of weeks or more since I got it, I think, and I know it has no mates in my tank. Will I wind up with babies at this rate? Do they lay unfertilised eggs? Thanks. Link to comment
hotshot619 Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Hi all. I have a lone nassarius snail with a rather bland, dark shell from my local fish store, and it has just laid eggs. I'm wondering if perhaps it had been impregnated prior to my getting it? It's been a couple of weeks or more since I got it, I think, and I know it has no mates in my tank. Will I wind up with babies at this rate? Do they lay unfertilised eggs? Thanks. I have 4 in my tank and from what I have seen most of the eggs don't make it. Only 2 of mine have made it to having a shell and they will prob not make it past my other CUC. Hope if you want more they make it. Link to comment
GokesReef Posted February 24, 2011 Share Posted February 24, 2011 Most of my snail eggs end up on the business side of my mag float Link to comment
ehwood Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 Mag float? What is that? I have a larger and a smaller backmounted filter running, and only the larger one has filter cartridges. As I don't even have fish in the tank so far, I've been considering removing the filters for a time if those eggs do hatch. Any idea how long it would take the little buggers to reach a size where they won't wind up dead in the filter? I can't speak for how my crabs and other creepy crawlies will descimate the baby population, but given that I don't have too mnay overall, I'm confident that at least a few babies would make it. I'm also kind of curious about small, spiral-shaped white growths on my glass. Would that be a calcified algae type of thing? Or maybe a small animal? I also had tiny white things at one time with little tentacle-looking things coming out. They were reminiscent of stars and I never saw them moving. But they do seem to have vanished now to whatever fate. Thanks for the responses so far! Link to comment
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