Transparent eggs growing on Guava leaves

[NStalgia]

So we have a Guava tree and I decided to put a couple leaves on my tanks since I read it was good for the water. It had some small white stuff which I was thinking was probably fungus or mold. So i washed it, cleaned it and made sure I removed every bit of it then boiled it for 5 minutes before putting it in the aquarium. After a day small parts of the leaves started turning brown. I was surprised and thought why is it decaying this fast and upon closer inspection it had brown jelly egg type stuff on it. I've read online a little and all I could manage to find was it was probably snails since I had plants in my tank and I found 1 small pond snail on one of the plants that i bought. Problem is I found another egg type stuff on another leaf I put in a different container where there's nothing in there but a platty that I was keeping while I was fixing his tank. If these are snails how do I find them? Cause I see absolutely nothing in the plain container. I wanna get rid of them cause someone said that they carried parasites and worms and I don't wanna have to worry every time i stick my hand in the water specially since i get cuts on my arms sometimes.

 

[ColdKoi]

I don’t know about the snails carrying anything worse than the fish could already have (or when introducing more fish), not to mention a fish tanks water is far from a sterile environment even without any known parasites in the tank. It’s basically like sticking your hand into your toilet water, not a good idea if you have an open wound!

Some Snails can be hard to find, I can say that speaking from experience lol. I have bladder snails in both of my tanks (plant hitchhikers that I decided to keep) and even the largest egg laying ones are near impossible to find a lot of the time. My larger mystery snails are pretty active all day but the small bladder snails seem to disappear for a few days then they’ll come out of hiding for a while.

 

[NStalgia]

Can they lay eggs even when they're still small? It's just weird how one of the leaves in a plain container managed to get eggs on them when there's nothing visible in it other than a single platty. I put one of the leaves in another container to see what they are if they hatch.

 

[ColdKoi]

The bladder snails I have started laying eggs when they were about half the size of being full grown. The larger ones I have now are about 1/2” long, so they were about 1/4” when they started laying eggs.

 

[NStalgia]

Now this is getting weirder. Then those aren't snail eggs then. I doubt they're fungi since I boiled the leaves 1st. Well thanks for the info

 

[NStalgia]

I think I found out what they are. I think it's sap.