White dots on plants

[smashley09]

I purchased new plants yesterday from a store, and the tank did have snails. I have these plants in a separate quarantine area and want to be sure that these are suspected snail eggs.

Any info on these dots would be great. I am enclosing a picture for identification purposes.

Thanks

 

[tiger terror]

Most definitely snail eggs...

 

[smashley09]

Any suggestions how to get rid of the eggs without killing my plants?

 

[tiger terror]

You could do a bleach dip...should kill off any hitchhikers or manually remove em...do you know what kind of snails were in the tank you bought them out of?

 

[smashley09]

I have read that overdosing with CO2 will eliminate the snails as well. Is this effective on the eggs?

 

[tiger terror]

Would have to think that would be to harmful for fish or inverts if present in the aquarium...

 

[Oceangirl]

Hot water and picking them off. I use a dip of 100% dip of peroxide then smash the eggs.

 

[smashley09]

The plants are quarantined from the tank. The CO2 would only be dosed to the plants.