Grimreaperz
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Am I safe to assume this is my trochus snail "Releasing his seed"?
https://youtu.be/_DrRQjuJ2IM
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Trochus Snail Releasing Seed?
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Grimreaperz
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Update:
After some research. I have confirmed my Trochus snails are breeding. Here is a video of both male and female releasing eggs and sperms. Female eggs are hard to see on the video but I'm so excited to see this type of thing in my tank!
Question? Should I turn the skimmer off for a day or two, to give the best chance of success?
https://youtu.be/d_FeVnJDmzo
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After some research. I have confirmed my Trochus snails are breeding. Here is a video of both male and female releasing eggs and sperms. Female eggs are hard to see on the video but I'm so excited to see this type of thing in my tank!
Question? Should I turn the skimmer off for a day or two, to give the best chance of success?
https://youtu.be/d_FeVnJDmzo
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Fish Keeper82
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Great Video!!!
Grimreaperz
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Thanks! I am hoping to see babies!!!
Decided to turn off my Skimmer for a day or so.
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farfromsea
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So cool. Good call on the skimmer. Poking around online it says turn it off for a week! Another site says an entirely different species take about 3 days for the zygotes to settle on the substrate so I guess the trochus either takes longer or 7 days is just safer for best yield?
keep us updated!
keep us updated!
Grimreaperz
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Yeah I think I read the same post. I will be leaving it off for a week. Give me a chance to give it a good clean anyways. Just hoping that I didn't wait to long before turning it off.
I will definitely update this post if I find any babies in the months to come! Super exciting! My firefish goes in on Saturday I'll turn the skimmer back on then!
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Grimreaperz
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I'm so excited!!! My Snails have since done this about 2 more times that I have seen and yesterday doing my usual visual inspection I saw this little guy scooting around.
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farfromsea
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Nice you should write up what method you used, how many days the skimmer was off, etc. for posterity. Excited for you!
Str8linespeed
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Cool video and thanks for sharing. I wasnt quick enough with my phone when my Stomatella's did the same thing.
Grimreaperz
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Never really intended to do this. But I noticed they would do it mostly after a large water change. Or if I forgot to change the water for a week or two and then did a water change it would happen. As well when I switched my light cycle back from nights to days. (I do night time lights in the summer to prevent tank from getting to hot in the day) pretty much and change in water quality or lighting can spark this. I turned the skimmer off for 1week the first time. And the 2nd time they did it I have removed the skimmer from my setup completely in preparation for my Sump to go in. Then got sick next thing I know it's a month later. I did some major gravel vacuuming during this time in a battle with cyano. So I am sure if I didn't do that the numbers would be much larger. It's an exciting thing for sure! Now let's see if breeding clowns will be as successful lol!
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