Type of egg??

Phoenixfire089

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Hi! I just purchased a plant and now I realized that there are two egg masses under the leaves. They are a clear gel-like droplet about 3/4 of a centimeter with maybe twenty white dots inside. They were from Petsmart, where I also bought a snail. After checking around, I have found that snail eggs often come on the plants and end up in an overabundance of snails in the tank. Right now I'm treating it as a science experiment so I'll handle the outcome later.

But what I'm curious about is that the store sells Apple snails; this one had the gold, blue and black types but all of those species lay eggs out of the water.

Do the plants they buy already have the eggs? I'm trying to figure out what might be in them. Snails seems like the answer, but I can't figure out what kind they would be since the ones they sell all lay eggs over the water line.
 
If it looks like this:
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Then it's probably bladder/pond snail eggs (I've gotten a bunch of them). They are usually in a ( shape (IME). I'm not sure if bettas will eat them.

EDIT: Sorry it's so big! (I copied from the internet)
 
These are either bladder or ramshorn eggs and if they aren't kept in check they will quickly populate your tank. A few in a tank is fine, but if you overfeed you can have a massive population explosion. Whenever I get plants, I sort through them looking for these gel-like egg sacs and remove them to keep any from hatching out into my tank. The ones that got into my tank were the bladder snails and my betta doesn't touch them. I would suggest getting rid of the eggs to keep the population down since some very tiny babies are probably on your plants as well and will eventually grow up and reproduce.
 
is there a kind of a goldish sack around the eggs if so ive got the same thing in my tank there ramshorns
 
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