Patches of a clear jelly-like substance on plant leaves?

LeahK

LeahK

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I bought a new anubias last week, which I haven't put in my main tank yet. I just saw that it has patches of a clear jelly-like substance on its leaves. The patches are flat, about the diameter of a pea, and there are maybe 2 or 3 per leaf.
I scraped them off, at least all the ones that I could find. Does anyone know what these are? Maybe some kind of eggs? I just want to make sure there's nothing dangerous to my fish before I put this plant in my 55.
 
Snail eggs.

If you want snails, you got a bonus. If you don't want snails, you luckily caught them before you introduced them to your tank.

My clown loach exterminated my snails in no time. I actually liked having them in that tank too. He/she would even eat the snail jelly before the eggs could hatch. Oh well...
 
Snail eggs! Probably pond snails. Not dangerous, but they will hatch into snails.
 
Thanks! I'm glad I caught them. Normally, I wouldn't mind snails, but I try to keep my 55 snail-free so that my otos don't have to compete for the algae :)
 
They're snail eggs... probably bladder (pond) they are the most common... congratulations you've just joined the ranks of people that hate bladder snails... or you will soon! ;)

Actually, they nothing but good for your aquarium really- hopefully you lucked out and it's something more ornate like Ramshorn eggs.

All planted aquaria eventually will get snails... even if you clean plants- they're eventually going to find a way in! ;)
 
if there were eggs out on top of the leaves there are eggs hidden else-where. you will probably have snails unless you dip the anubias in a snail-killing solution. a lot of people use pp for it.
 
Oh yeah, maybe they're ramshorn snails. I had both pond snails and ramshorns, and they were both neat. The pond snails weren't as pretty, but they still did a great job cleaning up after the messy eaters. As long as you don't overfeed, the population will stay small enough. All of the "oh teh noes!!11!! snails everywhere" posts have always been from people who obviously overfeed and don't clean enough. More food = more snails.
 
Engineer, don't disagree... but I'd just rather have ramshorns than bladders... do the same job but look nice whilst doing it.

Don't know what happened... whilst cycling (with plants) before fish/shrimp I had lots of little bladders everywhere but just the one ramshorn (that I know of- obviously there were more maybe as eggs because I ended up finding more- I'm guessing 6 or 7 in my 55g now... I've got lots of MTS in the substrate though).

I got fish/shrimp- within a week my bladder snail population seemed to all-but-vanish, a few larger ones left- but I still seem to have a number of ramshorns. Best guess is the ghost shrimp are eating the bladders (but not ramshorns for some reason).

Nonetheless, shaln't complain. Without trying I appear to be ridding myself of bladders. That can only be a good thing- especially since my "nice" snails seem to still be doing well.

I was never "infested" with snails- although- my MTS population is definately growing strongly.
 
Actually, I love snails. We've got a ton of mts and some ramshorn-looking ones in our other tanks. But I feel like there's a good balance of algae in my 55 gallon tank that keeps my otos alive. So I'm scared that introducing snails will upset this balance.

I'm quarantining the plant, anyway, because it came from a bad lfs. How long does it take snail eggs to hatch?
 
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