Snail Id

[pancho]

I caught my astreas and margarita snails in a spawning event one night. A few weeks later I have a bunch of these snails. Could these be baby margarita snails?

 

[pancho]

Here is a pic

 

[pancho]

another

 

[zedman]

congrates on your new babies, look the same as my baby margaritas.

Zed

 

[greenbean36191]

These don't appear to be "margaritas." It's very unlikely that these snails would ever successfully breed in a reef tank.

If you can take a picture of the snail out of water that would help telling what they are. Take one looking straight down on the back of the shell and one straight at the opening with the snail retracted.

 

[zedman]

it might be highly unlikely but not impossible. I have margaritas, ceriths, nassarius and a 2 conchs, the babies do not resemble any of them?

Zed

 

[greenbean36191]

I suspect you're seeing hitchhiking snails that you didn't realize you had rather than babies of any of the snails you know about.

There are some big obstacles to "margarita" snails breeding in a reef tank. The two biggest ones are their delicate larval stage and the extreme temperature. Margarita snails are from cold water. It's hard enough getting their close, tropical relatives to breed in reef tanks.

If these were babies from the spawning event the original poster saw, they certainly wouldn't be this big within a couple of weeks.