snails lay eggs, but they won't hatch?

[white specter crayfish]

I have been trying to breed snails for my pea puffers and I have gotten the snails to lay eggs, but the eggs don't seem to hatch, I added egg shells to the water to see if that could add more calcium to the water but they still won't hatch, any ideas what is wrong?

 

[Deadliestviper7]

What kinds of snails? For example nerites need saltwater to hatch

 

[white specter crayfish]

What kinds of snails? For example nerites need saltwater to hatch

standard pest snails, i believe bladder snails

 

[skjl47]

For example nerites need saltwater to hatch

Hello; I have these and they lay white eggs which do not hatch in fresh water.

standard pest snails, i believe bladder snails

Hello; I do not consider snails a "pest" but that is another discussion. There are at least three snails common to the hobby that might be called "pest" by some. The MTS, the Ramshorn and the pond snail. All these have reproduced well for me for over 50 years so I am not sure why yours are not reproducing. My first guess is not enough time has passed. The eggs can take a while to hatch and the new snails are very small.
The MTS have live young.

How long have you had the snails?

 

[white specter crayfish]

Hello; I have these and they lay white eggs which do not hatch in fresh water.

Hello; I do not consider snails a "pest" but that is another discussion. There are at least three snails common to the hobby that might be called "pest" by some. The MTS, the Ramshorn and the pond snail. All these have reproduced well for me for over 50 years so I am not sure why yours are not reproducing. My first guess is not enough time has passed. The eggs can take a while to hatch and the new snails are very small.
The MTS have live young.

How long have you had the snails?

close to a month or so and the snails I think are standard pond or bladder snails, I wonder if my water is too dirty or if my water is too soft

 

[MrsE88]

Well, I never could get many bladder snails to hatch for me either.
Switch to ramshorn. I ordered 12, was shipped 13. They were completely frozen when I got them(dead of winter here when they arrived) only 3 survived. Now I have hundreds. And that’s with breeding them in a tank with fish that eat the tinny babies. So I think you’ll have much better luck with them.

 

[skjl47]

I never could get many bladder snails to hatch for me either.
Switch to ramshorn

hello; Good suggestion. I had a tank with established rams horn snails and got some pond snails in on some plants. Over time the pond snails slowly disappeared. I had assumed they were out competed by the rams horns, but maybe not.
While I never actually timed it, it seems it took a few weeks for young snails to show up in new snail free tanks. A month may not be enough time for impact much as yet. Perhaps keep an eye on a patch of eggs to see if you can note any changes.

 

[DOOB]

Hello; I do not consider snails a "pest" but that is another discussion. There are at least three snails common to the hobby that might be called "pest" by some. The MTS, the Ramshorn and the pond snail. All these have reproduced well for me for over 50 years so I am not sure why yours are not reproducing. My first guess is not enough time has passed. The eggs can take a while to hatch and the new snails are very small.
The MTS have live young.

How long have you had the snails?[/QUOTE]

man I just finished dosing my piranha tank with cupramine to kill off the damn things, they were up inside my HOB filter all over the glass and god knows how many down under the gravel in the undergravel filter. been a month almost so last nite was my first big water change (50%) and added charcoal to filter to start the copper removal. cuprisorb is ordered and on its way. I find the little buggers to be pests!!

 

[skjl47]

they were up inside my HOB filter all over the glass and god knows how many down under the gravel in the undergravel filter

hello; had the same experience a few decades ago. Way too many snails in my tanks. They were everywhere. Turns out to have been my tank practice being the cause. Over time I learned that I was overfeeding. The last two or three decades I still have snails but the population is under control.
My take is all those snails were doing you a big favor. Been my considered opinion that excess food and other organic detritus is better passing thru a snails gut than to be simply rotting in all the nooks and crannies of a tank.

I fear you may have two sorts of problems from using copper to kill the snails. One is all those dead snails have been and will continue to rot. Another may be the lingering effect of the copper. Might be time to consider a stepped up WC schedule.

Snails do several beneficial jobs in a tank. I have kept them for over 50 years and eventually learned to deal with the populations and have much healthier tanks as a result.
Good luck anyway.

 

[DOOB]

they came in on a couple plants I purchased and didn't take the time to bath before placement in the tank. yaa after the first week the die off was enormous. the smell was wicked. vacuumed gravel and small water changes twice a day for I think 4 days. redosed the new water each time to maintain 0.25 copper levels. let it sit till last nite in hopes all the eggs hatched and died as well. copper wont kill the eggs from what I understand. im fully aware of the copper residue and have no intention of a stingray or any other invert for that tank in the future eh. I don't mind snails I have a few in my community tank. the best cleaners in town they are