Apple snails eggs...what to do next?
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As an update
1- Two clutches hatched and two more still waiting
2- The babies loved my Cichlid mix and boiled cucumber slices, Today i fed them grind boiled shrimp and it seems they like it as well and it looks like they doubled their size in just about 10 days
3- I noticed a fifth cluch of eggs on the tank side and mostly i'll move it tomorrow to the hatching tank
4- I noticed some things look like flyes larva in the tank, I am wooried they may feast of the eggs, I wonder if they may do that
1- Two clutches hatched and two more still waiting
2- The babies loved my Cichlid mix and boiled cucumber slices, Today i fed them grind boiled shrimp and it seems they like it as well and it looks like they doubled their size in just about 10 days
3- I noticed a fifth cluch of eggs on the tank side and mostly i'll move it tomorrow to the hatching tank
4- I noticed some things look like flyes larva in the tank, I am wooried they may feast of the eggs, I wonder if they may do that
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Any photos? Google dragonfly nymph and damselfly nymph. Remove them though if it's either of them. They might eat the baby snails but not the eggs. I have not seen any record of these nymphs eating apple snail eggs. Only the fire ants have been known to eat the apple snail eggs so far as the eggs are allegedly disgusting to taste.
Thanks Lupin for beeing so helpful
In fact i didn't see a dragon fly for years, It is kind of rare in a big city like Alexandria- where i live- I don't know about fire ants but never heard of them in Egypt befor again thanks for the big city
i belive what i have is the common flies
It looks something like this
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/ent525/soil/soilpix/images/flylarvae_jpg.jpg
i can't get a clear photo for them with my cam
I am kind of disappointed because i thought i'll have something like 200 baby snails,Till now all i got not more than 30 but they are eating and growing well.
