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Posted: April 06 2008 at 10:51am |
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Will these guys reproduce in the home aquarium? I ask because I woke up this morning to a bunch of eggs stuck on the corner of my tank.
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Posted: April 06 2008 at 12:07pm |
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it may have been cierth snail eggs of nudibranchs... it may be nassarius snails as well though...i have never heard of them reproducing in a tank.
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pitiful guppy tank.
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Posted: April 06 2008 at 12:10pm |
Not sure who is doing it, but I get eggs on the glass every few days. I decided to leave some last week and see what came out. After a few days I had lots of litle crawly things all over -- seemed harmless enough and I though the starfish might like them. Still not sure what or whose they were. Anyone know?
Some of the eggs had a clear sack with clear eggs?? in the them, others had a white sack with yellowish to orange eggs in them. Maybe eight or ten eggs in each sack. The sacks?? were about 1/16 to an 1/8th" in diameter.
I do have nassarius, astrea, turbos, and a couple other kinds of snails that I can't remember right now.
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Posted: April 06 2008 at 1:56pm |
I regularly get eggs on the glass from Nerites and Cerith snails. I have never seen eggs from my Margarites, Astreas, or Nassarius.
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Posted: April 06 2008 at 3:09pm |
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I currently only have Nassarius snails and 1 unknown hitch hiker that never leaves the rock. I'm 99.9% sure it's one of the nassarius snails, when I turned on the lights this morning there was one right by the eggs. As soon as the lights were on it went down into the sand.
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Posted: April 07 2008 at 12:34am |
I've watched my gaint nassarius lay eggs. I've left them alone and have a whole bunch of little ones. However some may say this is impossible in a tank but I got some astreas first and had eggs one batch and only about 20 of them lived but I have little tiny ones in my tank that are big enough now to know that is what they are for sure.
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Posted: April 07 2008 at 7:21pm |
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I think I'm going to leave the eggs and see what happens.
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Posted: April 07 2008 at 7:43pm |
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Posted: April 08 2008 at 10:20am |
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I have a whole bunch of eggs from the small nassarius, I came home last night and I had 5 on my tank laying eggs. I leave the eggs on the glass, they seem to hatching, I have a whole bunch of small things hopefully snails on my glass and overflow.
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