Assassin snail breeding

[blizowman1]

Are they doing what I think they're doing

 

[GodFan]

lol looks like it right? I am not sure but look for little square sacks with a round circle in them. Those would be assassin snail eggs.

 

[blizowman1]

I see little clear circles with white dots on some of my plants is the assassin snail the only snail that lays eggs like that or is there others cause I've been seeing baby rams horns and I have freshwater limpets in my tank as well

 

[blizowman1]

Ok so I've been noticing these little square almost things with white dots in them I've took some pics so you can tell me if these are indeed assassin snail eggs

Sorry for the bad quality I took them with my iPhone and the lights were out so I was trying to use a flash light. How do I know if they'll actually hatch and what am I supposed to do when I have fifty little baby assassin snails crawling around in my tank lol I'm starting to think I should have got snail eating fish instead of snail eating snails

 

[MABJ]

They sure are!!! Congrats. Assassin snails are always hot sellers and cool tank members

 

[blizowman1]

Is there anything special I have to do for them? How long will it take them to hatch

 

[MABJ]

Is there anything special I have to do for them? How long will it take them to hatch

I never personally have heard about anything special. Sake, a friend here, didn't do anything and I believe his eggs are now Juvie snails.

 

[GodFan]

My eggs are now juvie snails as well and I did nothing. The juvie snails will be invisible for quiete awhile but just when you forget about them youll see one! They are soooo cool!
Oh and I am mad at you! I want freshwater limpets! lol

 

[blizowman1]

Well i don't know how I got them they just kind of showed up one day and another snail question I have is will ramshorn snails eat my plants and I've had an out break of mystery snails in my daughters tank will those eat plants cause I'm afraid my assassins might start to die off cause they don't seem to care about the limpets and I haven't seen enough ramshorns to keep the assassins fed I don't think

 

[LyndaB]

I do nothing special to get my assassins to spawn. I've actually never seen the eggs before, so those pics are pretty cool. I just know that every now and then, I see little teeny tiny miniature assassins cruising the tank. I started off with 7 about 2 years ago and probably have 40 now.

After the young hatch, they do go beneath the substrate to beef up for the first few months or so. Only after that will you see them topside. Enjoy the little buggers!

 

[warthog76za]

Congrats on your imminent brood!

Im totally hooked on Assassin Snails since I started out with the hobby a few years ago. I think I started out with 3 and now , present day, Ive lost count but you dont have a real breeding explosion with them as you'd have with a Ramshorn/Pond snail.

These days they eat leftover fish food and every few weeks I drop some Ramshorn snails (which live in in my Nano Tank)....always so amazed you see none of them ...the minute you throw the snails in, they prop out from everywhere lol!

 

[blizowman1]

So I've started to see baby assassins all over the place. Look how tiny they are. Idk if you can see them but I got three in this picture