breeding zebra nerite

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inspireram

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anyone here have experience breeding zebra nerite snails before? mine keeps laying eggs all over my tank but i don't know how to get them to hatch.

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inspireram said:
anyone here have experience breeding zebra nerite snails before? mine keeps laying eggs all over my tank but i don't know how to get them to hatch.

Thanks
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They only breed in brackish water. Mine do the same thing, but at least they don't lay the eggs on the plants.
 
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Nerite eggs hatch into free-swimming larva called veligers that require very hard water (or full salt water) to survive, and are practically impossible to raise in an aquarium. As far as I know they've never been successfully raised in an aquarium by a hobbyist.
 
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