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skmmurphy

skmmurphy

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my blue mystery snail laid a clutch on the glass 8 or 9 days ago. this morning when I was feeding the clutch slid down the glass and was floating in the water. I quickly scooped it up with the closest thing to me at the time (a breeder box). I put it on its flat side and left it on the box. Is this ok? I read online that if it gets wet it will drown. I put the box in the exact location (just below) where the clutch was located. I hope this is ok. I was hoping they would hatch this weekend.

p.s. this is my first time with a clutch. it was hard and i thought it would be soft and squishy. I have the water level low for the snail to lay eggs.

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I've gotten mine wet before and they still hatched. As long as the clutch has hardened it should be okay.
 
Mine usually take 14 days or longer. They clutch will start to turn Grey.
 
it depends. ive heard some can take up to a month to hatch.
 
Usually, 9-14 days depending on the humidity in the tank. The clutch will start to look moldy. It isn't, it is just the baby snails maturing inside. Once the baby snails hatch, they MUST be in water. I would get a small tupperware type container, put a damp (with tank water) clean sponge in it and put the clutch on top. Float the container in the tank. When they hatch, either drop them into the tank or put them in a breeder box.
 
I don't have luck putting them on the breeder box. You can thank my snails for trying to go inside the breeder box and their added weight tilts the breeder box until it sinks.:screwy:
 
well I would say it is very humid. the glass is all wet with humidity and I can feel the warmth when I open the lid. today is day 10 and it is a tanish color. I dont see any babies but it looks like a few off the top are open with nothing inside. I am afraid my fish will eat them. I have liveberers and quarter sized angelfish.
 
your angels may very well have a smorgasbord with the baby snails. i have a larger-ish angel (body is over 3 inches diameter) in the same tank as baby snails and it doesn't seem to even notice them, but i may have just lucked out with a fish that doesn't appreciate escargot, lol. right now i'm hatching out clutches in a tank with endlers (livebearers) and they don't seem to bother the snails at all.

the clutch will go all sorts of different shades of gross as it gets closer to hatching. i once said that a clutch looks like the grossest thing just before you get babies, lol, and it's true. have patience. i once waited 4 weeks before a clutch finally hatched!
 
I have a 20 gal in the other room with a ghost shrimp carring eggs. I want to put the clutch in there but I'm worried the shrimp will eat them
 
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