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12/17/2012, 11:04 AM | #1 |
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Baby Snails...?
I have what I am assuming to be snail egg pouches on my front glass, predominantly on the sump return nozzle side. They aren't too many of them and I typically leave them when I'm cleaning the glass mainly because of curiosity.
Well the other day I was called into the living room and saw what appeared to be baby snails crawling on the glass and a broken egg sac. I'm not too sure what type of eggs or snails these will be, I've heard that those type of egg sacs are for nassarius snail and the babies almost look like tiny nass snails. Either way I hope at least some of them make it. They were still there several days after the initial "birthing" and almost all of the white dots inside the egg sacs are gone so maybe there is hope. I did see one that was a good 12" below the others making his way to the sand bed... On a side note, about a 7-10 days after the first sighting I saw the exact same white looking snail on the back glass, only he was about 4-5x larger than the ones pictured. Don't really have a question (unless someone knows for sure what type of eggs/snails those are), just wanted to share something I thought was kinda cool.
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12/17/2012, 11:49 AM | #2 |
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Could be strombus snails. Mine lay eggs frequently and I often find babies and juvenile snails cruising the tank and fuge.
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