I have three adult Assassin Snails in my heavily planted BIOCube 14. A week ago I noticed one of them was always attached to the shell of another. This morning that pair was i the front of the tank and there was a baby snail attached to them. I don't do anything to encourage their breeding or even their survival. They have to scavenge for a living. I can't remember when I last saw another snail in that tank other than a pair of Nerite Snails
Breeding Assassin snails
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1. I have a population boom in my tank. http://www.klimshrimps.blogspot.com
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I would have to say 1. I live in Maryland, and I didn't treat the water any differently, the Temp was around 74ish. I found that they love to lay eggs EVERYWHERE, especially on the glass and any driftwood. Also I noticed that any eggs brushed off will fall into the cracks of gravel, so I stuck a guppy plastic breeding box and the snails took to laying their eggs on that instead.
This thread is two years old but obviously still relevant so here goes. Assassins are egg layers, have you seen eggs? They really aren't that hard to breed they just do it on their own. The survival rate I have found is actually pretty good. If food is readily available you will see them mating and you will see their hard little sesame seed (ish) eggs, but that's it you won't see crap else. Then one day you realize you are having to feed the assassin tank and BOOM you have a million gillion of the little boogers.
Added 2 more assassins to my one existing one as it was not able to control all the snails in my 120lt tank. that was two weeks ago, today I have noticed lots of baby assasins, some already attacking the small normal snails I still have. The assassins I added soon latched on to my single one. It will be interesting to see how the babies mature. So for me it has been easy, however, I still have a lot of existing snails to feed them on at the moment!
