Has anyone had baby snails?

[roland jacques]

I have never seen snail grow up in a aquarium before but i just notice about 30-50 snails in one of my refuge's. The biggest i can see is about 5/8". The last time i pulled cheto out of that sump (2 or 3 months ago) i did not see any signs of snails. Anyway this is my first full rearing of any invert. figures i had nothing at all to do with it.
Not sure if they are Mexican turbos or Caribbean Astras turbos ?? just wondering how fast they grow.

 

[ericmcj31]

are you sure it wasn't copepods?

 

[roland jacques]

They are snails. The big ones are the size of marbles with nice shells

 

[ericmcj31]

cool

 

[dakota9]

I've got eggs of something in my tank. Attached to the back overflow, a white spiral showed up a few days ago. I think its snails with eggs that look like that

 

[corigan]

Roland -

I have tons of baby snails too. There are fun to watch. They like to come together and stick to each other and form a snail conglomerate. During the day they attach themselves to the underside of the other big astrea snails and hang onto them all day.

Very cool stuff.

Matt

 

[roland jacques]

Matt, how big are yours? How long have you had them in your tank?

 

[budsreef]

Roland, I have lots of them, but they are Collonista Snails which is a very small turbo type snail that hitchhikes in on live rock or in sand. They mostly come out at dusk and during the night.

 

[roland jacques]

The Collonista Snails Ive seen are brown and white and they where smaller than these. Let me see if if can post a photo.

 

[roland jacques]

This can take a while, I can not remember how to post photos here.:mad2:

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[roland jacques]

LOL, Well i guess thats one way to post a photo
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I think I saw bigger one. Do yo think they are Collonista Snails ?

 

[roland jacques]

I do see a Little similarity to the sundial. their is nothing good they can eat in that sump so i will just see if they get bigger or become more identafiable...

 

[cameron]

I get snail blooms 3-4 times per year. My water turns super cloudy, my skimmer goes nuts and the next day I have thousands of tiny snails crawling everywhere. I think my snail love making is from the nassarius.

 

[corigan]

Leveldrummer: Thanks for the info. They do not look like pyramid snails. They look like Collonista snails. They are so small it is hard to tell, but I do see some coloring coming out that looks brown like the picture pictured above. They also have the same shell design as the collonista as shown above. I will keep an eye on them to make sure when they get bigger they are not sundials.

Thanks again.

 

[kwl1763]

I have tons of collonista's (literally thousands) but I have never seen one over 1/4"

I have had them for almost 2 years in my tank.