2 Different Nerites Breeding?

hirschy75

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Hey all. I have an olive and tiger in a 3 gallon dorm tank.

All day today since around 8 they have been stuck to each other. I'm not sure if its just the olive fell asleep on the tiger and the tiger moved around a bit or what but this is what was going on:



So can they breed?

 

blue2fyre

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Ashley

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My horned nerite takes rides on my Mystery snail all the time. He'll just hang out on her shell for hours then crawl away.

 

Hollygirl

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I have various Nerites in the same tank and they do that occasionally. Your snails (and mine) might just be grooming (my guess).

 

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I consider it grooming as well. Positioning isn't really right for breeding, lol

 

67chevelle

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msjinkzd said:

Positioning isn't really right for breeding, lol

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:rofl:
Someone needs to put that in their sig.

 

hirschy75

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hahaah ya i figured the olive was trying to maneuver its way around lol

 

hirschy75

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well they separated for about 3 mins and then they went back to it

 

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My Spixis are always trying to breed with my Briggs:

http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=203243



I'm not 100% sure- but I think one was trying to mate with a yellow tylo once- which would be absolutely baffling considering the snails are so distantly seperated on the evolution tree and don't even look similar.