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[joyski58]

Thought this was cool. Made by cerith snails. Anyone know what it is? I'm guessing snail eggs. What happens next?

Guess I won't know if this works until I press [send].

 

[joyski58]

Not bad for a first try. I'll keep working on it.

 

[LtPiper]

Yep looks like snail eggs to me. Good luck and if you have a bunch I'll take some off your hands.

 

[MattG]

yep cerith snail eggs. I don't believe I have ever had any make it past the egg stage.

Strombus and stomatella are the only ones that I have had successfully reproduce. I have heard of successful ceriths though.

 

[LtPiper]

After reading this this morning and going down stairs walking by my tank look what I found in my tank!!!!!

Clickable

 

[LtPiper]

From my research there are 10,000 eggs per 6 inches. They incubate in 3-4 days.

They are most vunerable in their free float stage after hatching from shrimp and other carnivors and like to find a "dead spot" in the water colum to settle in, dig in the sand and grow their shells while eating microalgea and ditirius.

If you have a large number survive the free float stage and find a spot to hunker down keep an eye on your calcium levels as they could drop some from their shell growth.

They could also make it in to your overflow when in free float stage and wind up in your sump/refugium so keep an eye out there for them too.

 

[LtPiper]

Looks like all of mine hatched last night. Don't see any sign of them yet but I'm looking.