Guest Fancy_Bubbles Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 Hi everyone, I bought a new snail a couple of days ago, as our poor Sally the snail passed away last week... sniff sniff Anyway, I noticed that this new guy, Fugi, had a whole bunch of black spots stuck all over his body and some were falling to the gravel as he slid up the tank. At first I thought that he must be sick or something, but when I did the water change, I noticed that there were thousands of these "black spots" all over the gravel floor. Have I fallen off my rocker, or are these really snail eggs? I think I did a pretty good job getting them out of the tank, but should I expect a snail epidemic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member nichjake Posted September 24, 2005 Regular Member Share Posted September 24, 2005 I don't know, I thought snails layed their eggs in clutches. I have no idea, its interesting though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fancy_Bubbles Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 Hmmmmm..... I wonder what's going on in there... I did see one little bunch stuck together, but that's about it as far as clutches are concerned. And I didn't even realize that there were what seems like thousands of them until I started sucking up the water. Although I did put a few (hundred) in a fish bowl (my son thinks he's gonna get rich off of selling snails to his friends) so I guess we'll see what happens. Gotta say, I'm really concerned about what these things are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member silver8328 Posted September 24, 2005 Regular Member Share Posted September 24, 2005 What size are they? If they are really tiny it may just be their poo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BradNB Posted September 24, 2005 Share Posted September 24, 2005 Fancy Bubble...at least you son could get rish selling snail poo fertilizer for those smaller gardens...sorry I couldn't resist.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fancy_Bubbles Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Hahaha!!! Too funny!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Ranchugirl Posted September 27, 2005 Regular Member Share Posted September 27, 2005 Sorry to burst your your son's bubble, Fancy Bubbles, but it does indeed sound like snail poop. My snails do an awful lot of it, and it looks like a black carpet at times on my barebottom tank. Snail eggs are either clear or pink, at least those are the colors I get from my insularums and from the spixis.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member smack536 Posted September 27, 2005 Regular Member Share Posted September 27, 2005 definately sounds like poo to me....probably a good thing though!!! : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Anic Posted October 1, 2005 Regular Member Share Posted October 1, 2005 Is some snial poo pelleted like bunnies' poo? Gary's is always in short little strings ( 1/4-1/2 in) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member smack536 Posted October 1, 2005 Regular Member Share Posted October 1, 2005 yep...it can be any number of different 'looks' depending on what the snails eat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fancy_Bubbles Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 Well, you guys were right. Hehehe, it's definately poop! Every week I siphon those darn things out the following week there's thousands of them again! The ramshorn that I had before didn't poop nearly as much as this new mystery snail!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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