What Is This Its Not Very Nice Looking..

[Rhiannon]

Can someone please tell me what this is?

I was just looking in my tank and found it attached to the underneath of the glass covering that goes over my tank.

I did a water change last night, it was not there.

Its not very nice looking.

I am thinking snail eggs? I do have a apple snail.

Also, I just pulled it off with a tissue and its hard, not squishy.

Rhiannon

 

[QuotheRaven]

now thats interesting Lol....I have never seen anything like that Lol...and hard.....

 

[Rhiannon]

it looked like tiny bits of honeycomb, like what bee's lay before it gets taken away by the bee man. But it was on the inside of my tank, so no bee's in there lol.

And under the lights of the tank it looked pinkish, in natural light its brownish.

And being so heavily pregnant I am very queezy atm, and it made me feel quite sick. Its disgusting to look at.

 

[Liam]

apple snail eggs.

 

[Rhiannon]

Really? Thats what I had a feeling they were.

Howcome they are hard? I only have 1 apple snail. Are they fertalised?

 

[Amunet]

Got this off of this site...
http/www.applesnail.net/content/care.php

It is also important to mention that female apple snails can store sperm for months, so even the eggs of a single snail can be fertile. With no male snail present, female apple snails occasionally produce infertile eggs. Obviously, these do no hatch. Last but not least: most species lay their eggs above the water and they should stay there while the eggs of aquatic layers should stay below the surface.

After the eggs are deposited, they are soft and have a rather milky, pink colour. After a few hours, they harden and get their definitive colour (from pale pink to raspberry-red or even greenish depending of the species). It might happen that the eggs at the surface dry out, on which they get a lighter colour.

 

[Rhiannon]

Got this off of this site...
http/www.applesnail.net/content/care.php

It is also important to mention that female apple snails can store sperm for months, so even the eggs of a single snail can be fertile. With no male snail present, female apple snails occasionally produce infertile eggs. Obviously, these do no hatch. Last but not least: most species lay their eggs above the water and they should stay there while the eggs of aquatic layers should stay below the surface.

After the eggs are deposited, they are soft and have a rather milky, pink colour. After a few hours, they harden and get their definitive colour (from pale pink to raspberry-red or even greenish depending of the species). It might happen that the eggs at the surface dry out, on which they get a lighter colour.

Wow thanks for that. Thats exactly what has happened.