Snails

[clipit101]

do snails lay eggs as ive got eggs all over my tank and my snail are reproducing like nobodys buisness.

 

[Lynz781]

do snails lay eggs as ive got eggs all over my tank and my snail are reproducing like nobodys buisness.

Some are livebearers like the malaysian trumpet snail and snails like apple snails and ramshorn snails lay eggs. Do you know what kind of snail you have? If not there is a sticky thread in the invertabrates and amphibian section on this site, with pictures of snails for indentification.

 

[clipit101]

do snails lay eggs as ive got eggs all over my tank and my snail are reproducing like nobodys buisness.

Some are livebearers like the malaysian trumpet snail and snails like apple snails and ramshorn snails lay eggs. Do you know what kind of snail you have? If not there is a sticky thread in the invertabrates and amphibian section on this site, with pictures of snails for indentification.

well im not exactly sure what they are after looking but they look like apple snails but there the size of a third of my little finger nail so i dont see how they can be. These eggs do have little eyes though so im unsure. yet i dont ever see any fry wether thats because they all get gobbled up before i notice

 

[lizmorris24]

Apple snails lay their eggs above the water line so if your eggs are in the water it can't be them.

 

[clipit101]

Apple snails lay their eggs above the water line so if your eggs are in the water it can't be them.

Im baffeled then because theres a hell of alot of eggs yet theres alot of snails to.

 

[Lynz781]

Do you have plants in your tank?
The eggs have eyes? If they have eyes I'd be tempted to say they were fish eggs. But you'd have to be pretty close to them to be able to make eyes out.

 

[clipit101]

Do you have plants in your tank?
The eggs have eyes? If they have eyes I'd be tempted to say they were fish eggs. But you'd have to be pretty close to them to be able to make eyes out.

yea the eggs are on the plants and you do have to get really close to see eyes ive got an albino ruby shark, a pair of tiger barb, about eight neon tetra, a pair of swordtails, a pair of dwarf guarmis i dont know if the eggs could be from any of them excluding the swordtails of course.

 

[Sp00ky]

to make this easier, can you take a pic at all??

 

[Lynz781]

Reason I ask if you have plants is because the three pics below are all hitchhikers that have come in my tank with plants:

Limpets:

 

[clipit101]

to make this easier, can you take a pic at all??

unffortunately no my cameras out action at the moment ended up in my pond after my girlfriend had 1 to many at my birthday party sorry i know this is a random enquiery but at least its getting every1 thinking lol

Reason I ask if you have plants is because the three pics below are all hitchhikers that have come in my tank with plants:

Limpets:

They look like the snail in the top picture there really small and definately hitchhikers.

 

[lizmorris24]

The one in that top pic looks like an apple snail but that definitely wouldn't lay eggs on the plants.

 

[Lynz781]

The snail in my pic is definitely not an apple snail as it has not grown at all. And I think I had it ID as a mini mystery snail.

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=150240&hl=

Check this out and scroll down to rain-'s reply.

 

[clipit101]

The snail in my pic is definitely not an apple snail as it has not grown at all. And I think I had it ID as a mini mystery snail.

http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=150240&hl=

Check this out and scroll down to rain-'s reply.

Thats exactly what they are and the do breed fast ridiculously fast but im still lost as to if the eggs are from the snails though.

 

[stevenufc]

they seem like the same snails i had in my tank not seen any since i added some loaches

they came in on a plant

steve

 

[diburning]

well they can't be gourami eggs because you can't get female gouramis... The asian breeders are monopolizing them.

Even if you did have a female, gouramis are bubblenesters