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nate 
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Posted: June 10 2010 at 9:30pm |
What is this stuff. It showed up once before about 1 month ago. I cleaned it out and it showed up again today.  
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Posted: June 10 2010 at 9:43pm |
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Snail eggs I believe
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Posted: June 10 2010 at 9:53pm |
 Ahanix wrote:
Snail eggs I believe |
Yeppers, snail eggs also known as fish food. 
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Posted: June 10 2010 at 9:56pm |
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Ahanix is correct cerith snail eggs. You even have what looks to me like a picture of the mommy laying them in that first shot. Congrats! I get these all the time and then sometimes I'll start to notice a few new certih snails! Nothing like the snails that keep on giving!
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None at the moment
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Posted: June 11 2010 at 7:09pm |
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My fish dont eat them in my tank so i have ended up with a whole bunch. They are easy to give away if u have to many. If u dont clean them off your glass then in a few days youll notice that the trail has been deflated and youll see tiny spots on your glass that resemble a cracked egg. White with a little yellow dot in the middle. These are the newly hatched cerith snails. Its actually a very cool thing to see IMO.
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 10:13am |
Hello Nate, and Welcome to the group.  Chris is talking about two types of snails. If he is lucky enough to have baby Cerith Snails, hatched from the strings that Nate has pictured (great pics  ) that's cool  I wonder, Chris, do you also see baby Astrea snails from those "cracked egg" Astrea Snail egg cases? It would be very cool if you did. BTW, there are about 10,000 eggs in a six inch long string of Cerith Snail eggs and about 20 Astrea snail eggs in each egg case. I would not clean any of them off except on the front glass so I could see in. 
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 2:27pm |
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Thanks for all the great info. I will leave them alone and see what happens.
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 3:03pm |
If you don't mind a question, would they have a better chance of
surviving if they were scraped off ( Gently ) and moved into the
refugium?
I had the same thing happen in my tank shortly after this post, and let them be, but like what Peter said, they just ended up being fish food 
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 3:23pm |
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I have read about a few people growing out hatched snails and all of the successful people I have found have them in closed systems, meaning no overflow, no filter socks, no protein skimmer, etc. Also they have them in dedicated tanks with very limited to no fish and no corals. Once those eggs hatch they are food for everything in your tank and your filters remove them really easily.
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What?! You pooped in the refrigerator, and ate the entire wheel of cheese?! I'm not even mad.... That's actually amazing!
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Posted: June 12 2010 at 11:52pm |
I suspect even Amphipods/Grammerus will capture and eat baby snails, so they don't have much chance in most tanks. 
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Posted: June 13 2010 at 12:51am |
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I guess I'm lucky as far as snails go. I have cerith, nerite, astreas and more hatching out and thriving like crazy. I have a filter sock and a carbon reactor and a huge Skimmer and they still do well in my tank. I just leave the eggs where they are and let mother nature take its course.
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Posted: June 13 2010 at 1:48am |
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Newer tanks have more success with snail spawning and rearing. I believe it is due to the fact that there are less predators like Amphipods or at least less of the largest Grammerus.
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