Growth Identification

[stevil]

Anyone have any idea what this is? I noticed it tonight. I don't think it was there yesterday. It is towards the top of the front of my tank, and is about 2 inches wide.

 

[jamesbuf]

probably snail eggs

[davelin315]

I agree. Some sort of snail eggs, although I have only seen my cerith snails laying eggs and those don't look like cerith snail eggs (the ones I have had always lay their eggs with less "precision" when they start another row - mine always curve a bit while yours seem to simply start another row). What kind of snails do you have? Astreas will broadcast their sperm and egg into the water and I believe trochus do as well.

[jason the filter freak]

score they agree, thats soo eggs, let me know what hatches

[dhoch]

Definitly snail eggs and not cerith.... typically these (and most other things in our aquarium) will never make it out of the larval stage... but cool none-the-less

 

Dave

[HowardofNOVA]

I'd say

W N V C

 

A Radio Station Advertisement maybe?

[tygger]

Definitly snail eggs and not cerith.... typically these (and most other things in our aquarium) will never make it out of the larval stage... but cool none-the-less

 

Dave

 

 

Why is that? Do they get eaten?

[dhoch]

Many will get eaten, but for the most part they die because:

 

1) They can not get hte food they need

 

2) they are so fragile that hitting anything will kill them.

 

Dave

[ReeferMan]

i had egg just like these and i saw baby snails hatch from them when the lights where out. lights went on and the fish had a feast! There was no survivors

[HowardofNOVA]

What kind of snails layed them?

Got to admit, pretty cool pattern

[n8dogggg]

I'd say

W N V C

 

A Radio Station Advertisement maybe?

 

I'd say someone got ahold of the Lite Brite! Now there's a toy from back in the day!

[stevil]

Cool. Thanks everyone. I have Turbo's, Astraea and, Nassarius snails in the tank.

 

I've noticed what look like 2 turbo snail "feet" with no shells crawling around, and I also saw a few days ago a tiny Astraea or Turbo snail crawling on the glass (about 1/4" across).

[davelin315]

Cool. Thanks everyone. I have Turbo's, Astraea and, Nassarius snails in the tank.

 

I've noticed what look like 2 turbo snail "feet" with no shells crawling around, and I also saw a few days ago a tiny Astraea or Turbo snail crawling on the glass (about 1/4" across).

 

Watch out for those "feet" as they could be flatworms. As far as the snails laying eggs, maybe nassarius? I don't know how they reproduce but I have seen some tiny nassarius snails in my tank that weren't introduced before. Not sure how they got there, maybe came in on some rock, but they're pretty tiny and from my experience only crawl into rock when there's food there so I'm thinking they possibly survived a hatch of some sort.

[stevil]

Watch out for those "feet" as they could be flatworms.

 

Here are two poor pictures of one of the "feet" it definitely crawls and eats like a turbo snail.

 

 

[HowardofNOVA]

I had a couple of those "shelless" snails in my past tank and never "saw" them do any harm.