Snail Eggs GALORE!!

[JoeRags3]

I recently purchased 3 Anubias Nana plants for a tank I'm setting up and had a free hitch-hiking ramshorn snail (about this size - O). Today I was inspecting the plants and noticed a bunch of gel sacs, 12 between the 3 plants, with eggs on the underside of the leaves. The plants are all in water in tuberware for QT and wanted to know will the eggs drown if kept like that. And how long would it take to hatch?

Here a a few picture I snapped.

 

[fishcatch22]

i'm not sure how long, but I do know that RH eggs are aquatic, and that you should leave them in water.

 

[apratsunrthd]

I must be the only one here who HATES snails... if it were my tank, I'd throw an M-80 in it and call it a loss.

 

[fishcatch22]

RH snails are good snails. they're not the kind that can overrun your tank.

 

[Mgamer20o0]

apratsunrthd i dont know about that. water all over the florr. dead fish. dosent sound smart to me.

 

[JoeRags3]

Is it possible to carefully scrape off the sacs and place them in a margarine container until they all hatch?

 

[fishcatch22]

no, don't mess with them. just leave them as they are.

 

[hondamx]

Ya just leave them alone.

 

[tmtpowers]

If you are wanting to place the eggs in a incubator to prevent them from being sucked up or eaten by other fish, I would take the entire plant and put it into a different tank, HOWEVER, I have no experience with rams or other snails that lay aquatic eggs so you may want to research that more. See if you can find a ram snail breeder and get advice.

BTW, Fishcatch and hondamx, if you guys are ram breeders, forgive my post. As I said, I've not dealt with this kind of snail but know that breeders usually have the answer

 

[plah831]

i agree with tmt. take the entire plant, or leaf, instead of trying to remove just the egg jellies. i breed ramshorns as feeders, and their eggs are very small and delicate, quite unlike mysteries or the other large snails.

if you move the eggs to a tank with a heater, that will help them develop faster! then, once they hatch, the dead leaf will become food. however, i've done this before and had leaves (Amazon sword) stay alive for weeks. oh, well, they like to crawl on them. snails do great with some old flakes or bottom feeder wafers (algae thins, whatever).