Look what i found this morning!

[gupman]

Woo Hoo they finally laid there first clutch..

[msjinkzd]

woohoo! now its my brigs turn!!!

[gupman]

All I did is yesterday I slowly turned up the heater in the tank till it was about 79-80 degrees and woke up to the egg clutch...

[Flaringshutter]

Unless you have lots of room, I hope you're only hatching part of that clutch! Pretty soon you'll be up to your ears in baby snails!

It's a lovely clutch. :D

[gupman]

well right now i have them in a empty 10 gallon gonna use for a grow out tank then i can rearrange to have another tank or 2

[destined_love7]

Yay for clutches!

[AngJo72]

Congrats on the clutch. Dont be alarmed if the first one doesnt hatch, I know with new breeders sometimes the first one doesnt hatch. They also get bigger the more the snails lay, so be ready for a ton of snails. With hatching the snails, I find that the babies do best in established tanks where they can roam and nibble on the slime in the tank!!

What color are the brigs?

Good luck!

Ang

[PikeCichlid]

I've got some locally collected ones that lay theres underwater.The egg case looks like it has lil' globs of oil in it.Then they hatch!

[AngJo72]

What kind of snails are these? Brigs dont lay underwater, marisas, spixis and pest snails do though.

Ang

[beviking]

Congrats on the clutch. Dont be alarmed if the first one doesnt hatch, I know with new breeders sometimes the first one doesnt hatch. They also get bigger the more the snails lay, so be ready for a ton of snails. With hatching the snails, I find that the babies do best in established tanks where they can roam and nibble on the slime in the tank!!


Hey...I was gonna say that! :grinyes:

[AngJo72]

LOL too funny! :grinyes:

[gupman]

Congrats on the clutch. Dont be alarmed if the first one doesnt hatch, I know with new breeders sometimes the first one doesnt hatch. They also get bigger the more the snails lay, so be ready for a ton of snails. With hatching the snails, I find that the babies do best in established tanks where they can roam and nibble on the slime in the tank!!

What color are the brigs?

Good luck!

Ang
Thanks
They are brigs and were above the water line The ten gallon had guppies in it that i just moved it is a welll established tank with lots of good stuff for them algea and what not......

[destined_love7]

Mine are much drier than yours. Any tips? I spritz them several times a day and have them where there is humidity.

[gupman]

when i took the picture I just took them out of the tank and they werent 24 hours old yet.Ill take another pic of them now and post it..They look darker now

[gupman]

They got a bit darker

[destined_love7]

Yeah, I was expecting darker. But mine are dry...lol. How old are yours?

[gupman]

she laid the clutch at night so not sure almost 48 hrs.....With them over the tank,It is keeping them moist not wet I haven't done any misting it is just humidity from the tank..

[destined_love7]

Thanks. I keep wanting to open mine just to make sure there are some viable ones. Don't want to do this for 3 weeks for nothing. But I restrain myself. lol

[gupman]

Guess i should turn the temp back down in the tank to 74 instead of 80.

[destined_love7]

LOL. I'll take one if you have too many!

[gupman]

I believe these are the chestnut 1's brown whate ever they are the first 1 i found was from the gold because thats were she was when i went to bed....Thought she was doing something up and out the water I just couldnt see...I dont think I can ship without a permit.

[destined_love7]

Hmm. I wonder if that applies to clutches, too. Or just snails.

[beviking]

Actually clutches are not permitted to be shipped even if you have a permit and the snails have to be a certain size. Makes for easier identification when APHIS inspects for them.

You can ship without a permit, you just cannot ship legally without a permit. I'm not advocating shipping them at all, just stating facts.

[gupman]

Thanks beviking for the info I don't want to take the chance so I guess I'll be freezing these ones and turning down the temp in the tank a bit....

[gupman]

are the little dark spot baby snails forming ?Do they look fertile to you?

[OhNo123]

Wow.. so thats how you do it? is the foam in the tank?

[gupman]

Yea its in the grow out tank

[destined_love7]

Yep. Those dark spots are babies!

[destined_love7]

I wish my camera was that good. LOL. I'm trying to decide if I should get the hood/filter/heater to set up my 20....or a new camera this weekend. lol.

[gupman]

Lol...I was thinking that too get more fish stuff or the fujifilm sr700 Its on sale for 199.00.
It looks like a sweet camera..
I'm getting a co2 tank and regulator for free from a friend so I have stuff I have to get for that to feed 5 tanks..
Not sure though

[destined_love7]

LOL.

[gupman]

you can see the baby snails inside they are getting darker It prolly wont be too much longer.Hopeully i am home so I can take pics of them hatching..Probably not though.

[destined_love7]

Yay! Shouldn't be much longer!

[gupman]

How big are they exactly 1 mm or so?I have a couple tiny snails on The glass they are really small not quite 1mm>prolly pond snails huh?

[destined_love7]

I've not ever seen any just born ones.

[gupman]

anybody?