Haustrum babies! Hooray!

[Flaringshutter]

Thanks everyone! This morning I broke the largest clutch in half to help the babies in the middle get out and a shower of little shells fell to the bottom of the tank. They all righted themselves immediately and climbed to the waterline as most hatchlings do. I will be setting up the 2.5 gallon for them very soon.

Haustrum babies are very active after hatching, much more so than brigs. Interesting.

 

[caitylee]

Cute!

 

[thebullit]

fantastic news.

 

[Rbishop]

Weird.

 

[Flaringshutter]

Warning: ridiculous cuteness!

A few more photos of the babies. They're definitely bigger and darker now. I'm starting to see size differences.

The little round end of a cucumber that I dropped in to feed them is now half-gone, and I was starting to rack my brain. What to feed all these little piggies? The salvinia in my 10 gallon is growing like weeds, though, and I dropped some of that in. It was an instant hit.

They are now about the size of this O. The littlest ones are the size of this o.

yummz.

 

[msjinkzd]

so unbelievably cute!!! i love the updates!

 

[chesterthehero]

omg

adorable

 

[starfishplus]

hi saw the snails...and i think thats the kind i have. I bought 2 at the pet store and i did not know what kind they were i payed $1.90 for them.so i hope mine will lay soon i have had them about 4 months now.i thought it was chestnut snail....little did i know they sure look like your adult ones.

 

[Flaringshutter]

Yours are probably chestnut P. bridgesii, if they look like my adults. P. haustrums are pretty hard to find even among breeders, and are never sold at pet stores or LFS. Look again at the scale on the photos - my adult haustrums are larger than adult brigs, and still growing.
Good luck with your snails!

 

[fishorama]

I hadn't heard of haustrums before. They are quite cute in both baby & adult colorations. Are they plant eaters, I only saw a plant in 1 pic?