Are these eggs on my Hornwort?
- Thread starter slappycd
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I think they're mystery/apple/canas snail eggs? I breed ramshorn snails and their eggs are much, much smaller than those. Common pond snail eggs are also small, and like ramshorns' are laid in a circular pattern in a jelly.
Apple/mystery snails make pink egg clumps which are above the water line. These clumps are about 1/2 - 1 inch in size, these are not apple/mystery snail eggs. MTS, have tiny live babies - they are TINY ice cream cone looking things. I have never seen the eggs of those super tiny ramshorns...and unfortunately I have lots of those so I think I would have noticed their eggs.
My 2 cents is that they are fish eggs. What was in the tank with the hornwort - rainbows? Hmm. Something which spawns on a mop... I'd hatch them and see. (But not in a tank I cared about!)
Cathy
My 2 cents is that they are fish eggs. What was in the tank with the hornwort - rainbows? Hmm. Something which spawns on a mop... I'd hatch them and see. (But not in a tank I cared about!)
Cathy
Cathy G said:
My thoughts exactly. However, It's been a week since I got the hornwort. How long does the incubation (or aquaria term) usually take. Scratch that, probably varies depending on species.... :thud:
the plants are kept in an isolated tanks at the LFS where i got these. Think he said he had them a week prior. The've gotten larger since then.
The reason I thought snails because they have been appearing after the hornwort arrived. Or can the hitch hike on fish?
Anyway, I'll hatch them in my q-tank and see. Will keep you posted. Any special hatching stats I should know about?
Thanks
slap
I would have thought that they would have hatched already if they were fish eggs. Hmm. Now I really am stumped!
Cathy
Let us know what starts crawling or swimming on your plants. :huh:
Cathy
Let us know what starts crawling or swimming on your plants. :huh:
ooh, good one guys! You got me, too, because I really thought they were snail eggs (I've never kept mystery snails myself). I also forgot that MTS's are livebearers, but they are just like the Batillaria - Asian mud snail I wrote a paper on. [http://www.elkhornslough.org/research/PDF/Lin_2006.pdf, in case anyone was interested]
Sorry to get off-topic momentarily, but Bobnova, your male white cloud is very handsome. If I were a girly, I'd be impressed
Sorry to get off-topic momentarily, but Bobnova, your male white cloud is very handsome. If I were a girly, I'd be impressed
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