Nerite Snail Eggs

[blueboy1]

As unlikely as it seems i have a nerite snail laying eggs all over my filter and the corners of my tank on the silicone, its the only one in the tank as of about a week ago after the other 2 made a great escape and never returned to the tank only found dried up on floor. i have a few questions based on survival of babies. Are the eggs fertilised inside or outside the female snail? only because im wandering if the eggs are fertilised at all...do the females often lay eggs everywhere despite there being no possible fertilisation or tank conditions not correct, please help. Im just going to leave the eggs as doubt anythinh will come from this but just interested as would love to be able to say i bred them!!

 

[EllieJellyEllie]

Nerite eggs will not hatch in freshwater, so you will need a brackish tank to hatch them. Thats about all I know, sorry.

 

[KirkyArcher]

Not an unlikely event at all! Fertilised or not unless you have the correct amount of salinity they won't hatch! Also you will pretty much have to leave them anyway they just don't come off without tons of elbow grease or sharp tools

 

[attibones]

My nerites breed like crazy. Most of the eggs are a pale color like sesame seeds, but sometimes I get some that are an olive color, which I take to mean are either potentially viable or have been fertilized. I've never had anything come of any of the eggs though. I really wish these guys were less sexually active though. They are more interested in sex than in eating the diatoms on one side of the tank!

 

[blueboy1]

ok so impossible for them to breed in my tank then? I will not adjust the tank in anyway as happy settled tank was just interested. But will the eggs be eaten or just eventually fall away due to not being fertilised and will this keep happening?

 

[KirkyArcher]

You won't get any baby snails of the Nerite kind, yes it will keep happening and the eggs will remain in situ for ever, Nerite snail eggs have a half life of twenty seven thousand years!

 

[Ch4rlie]

You won't get any baby snails of the Nerite kind, yes it will keep happening and the eggs will remain in situ for ever, Nerite snail eggs have a half life of twenty seven thousand years!

 
A half life of 27,000 years? Wow! Seriously?
 
Where did you get bit of interesting information from out of curiosity.
 
Does that mean, if you emptied the tank, put it in the loft, and a couple of years later you decide to have a brackish tank and happened to have missed a couple of nerite snail eggs in the tank, they could potentially hatch?

 

[KirkyArcher]

You won't get any baby snails of the Nerite kind, yes it will keep happening and the eggs will remain in situ for ever, Nerite snail eggs have a half life of twenty seven thousand years!

 
A half life of 27,000 years? Wow! Seriously?
 
Where did you get bit of interesting information from out of curiosity.
 
Does that mean, if you emptied the tank, put it in the loft, and a couple of years later you decide to have a brackish tank and happened to have missed a couple of nerite snail eggs in the tank, they could potentially hatch?

No was being anything but "seriously"

they just are an absolute pain to remove, they don't fall off, they don't decompose any time soon and by the time they do they have been replaced tenfold with new eggs, nor do they get eaten by anything and they look unsightly (the unsightly bit is just my opinion)