Snail Eggs Scattered - I D Snails Please :)

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NeonBlueLeon

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So my recently purchased snails were mating the other day, and today I've noticed what looks like eggs scattered around the tank.  Can anyone help me ID these snails?  The LFS that I bought them at called them mystery snails.
 

Eggs on fake plant.
 

Eggs on a live plant.  Sorry for bad editing.  It look worse before I edited it, I promise.
 

Mating! Was it creepy of me to take a picture of them mating? :S
 

Cool design on shell, but not sure what they are.
 

Here's the other snail.  Any help ID-ing is appreciated!
 
Those appear to be ramshorn snails.  They are great to have in my opinion because they are great algae eaters.  They can reproduce very quickly and over run a tank if given the right conditions though just like pond snails.  Mystery snails are much bigger and lay there eggs in clutches that look like a sack up above the water level.
 
Wildbetta said:
Those appear to be ramshorn snails.  They are great to have in my opinion because they are great algae eaters.  They can reproduce very quickly and over run a tank if given the right conditions though just like pond snails.  Mystery snails are much bigger and lay there eggs in clutches that look like a sack up above the water level.
Yes that's what bothered me.  While researching mystery snails, I noticed their eggs looks quite different than what I've got.  And about overrunning a tank... it's happening.  I've got another three in my 20 gallon and there are eggs EVERYWHERE.  Yikes...
 

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