found some eggs!

[James0_85]

i just found some eggs,they are small white dots in a clear mucus type stuff and are on one of the rocks my turbo snail hang around, anyone know what turbo snail eggs look like, am i in luck?

[James0_85]

wow 130 posts

[Andy]

They are turbo snail eggs. Congrats James, your going to be the father of hundreds of baby snails very soon.



Andy

[fishobob]

Congrats James, your going to be the father of hundreds of baby snails very soon

Thats is unless everything in your tank has a feast each time they lay eggs

[James0_85]

[mycall]

hey quit tryin to increase ya posts just by stickin little pictures in :P

[ReBooT]

hey quit tryin to increase ya posts just by stickin little pictures in :P

oooh is that how you do it

[matt]

Great! it didn't take too long for them to start did it In a few weeks you will have hundreds of little snails.

Water changes seem to encourage spawning. This is the easiest way to encourage it during the initial population boom. After that manually reducing the population is the best way to ensure ongoing spawning.

Regards,
Matt

[James0_85]

Thats is unless everything in your tank has a feast each time they lay eggs

think something had a feast on the eggs , if/when they lay some more should i remove the eggs to my qt or somthing so they dont get eaten?

[Andy]

I wouldn't worry James as I only see egg sacks for about a day and they get blown away or whatever but the eggs will end up everywhere and a lot will reach maturity in little nooks and crannies amongst the rockwork and especially in the weir where most of my new baby snails seem to grow up.


Andy

[Jim_D]

From seeing egg sacks to seeing baby snails how long does it take?

I have seen around 8 lots of egg sacks over a few months, but still have not seen any baby snails

[Dr DBW]

They can be quite difficult to spot when small. Especially if your glass is clean and they all therefore get swept off it and stay on the rocks.

[AaronJ]

Hard to say Jim.

I was seeing eggs for a fair while (months) before I saw baby snails. It's a total guess but I'd be thinking at least a few weeks though based on the speed they grow at once they are visible. Hard to realy know though!

The other issue with baby snails (Turbos that is) is that they stay on the rocks and sand bed making them very difficult to see. I find they don't tend to move onto the glass until they are around the 5mm size.

I had never seen antyting directly eating the eggs until just the other day. Caught my Sailfin Tang munching into a new batch. It was not eating them as veraciously as it would its usual food but they must have been good enough.

Aaron.

[Nicolas]

Good to see this forum still going strong. I haven't posted for a long time.

Now about those snail eggs, I start with about 10 to 15 snails which I got from Andrew (ATJ) few months ago, I now have thousands of them everywhere. It probably was 2 months between seeing eggs and then small snails. I'm hoping that their numbers will be controlled by the amount of food available. !!!!

[Dr DBW]

Yes, you will only have enough (interms of both number and size) that the availability of algae will allow.