Just sharing some joy

[Crunchy]

My mystery snails just hatched. I think I'm counting around 45 right now. I'm gonna leave the sac in there a little longer incase there are any late bloomers. also, my peacock is about to release her fry any day now. Such an exciting week.

 

[smitty03281964]

Great job.

 

[Crunchy]

Well, the fry are out and they are fast little buggers. I think I've counted around 11, but I could still be wrong. They are so tiny I can't get a picture of them yet but they are eating well. Mom is back in the main tank and doing great too. It's about time to get some weight back on her.

 

[jkpq45]

How did you encourage the mystery snails to mate?

 

[talal101]

wow sounds like you have some love in the air

 

[Crunchy]

I have no clue how I got the snails to mate. I bought 5 larger ones all at once, and they didn't do anything for the longest time. They were in a community tank back then. Then my OB Peacock was carrying fry and I had to re-arrange my tanks. It was only them, my raphael cat, and the OB female in the 36 gallon. All the sudden, I get a clutch of eggs above the water line a day before the water changes. I'm assuming they started mating because no one was picking on them anymore. Now I have a "rapist" that just won't stop and if I remove it, another starts taking it's place. Oh, yeah and now I have 4 other egg sacks up on the wall. I can't seem to get them to stop.

I'm going to assume a few things if you wanted to get your snails to breed.
-temp between 76-80
-no one to pick on them
-low water line
-very clean tank/water

their food varies from veggie wafers, shrimp pellets and tropical flakes

 

[Crunchy]

A few, slightly acceptable, shots of the baby OB Peacock Cichilds. They are still tiny and super fast. I hope to be able to keep updating on them monthly.




Oh, and a few better pictures of Mom and Dad:





It's starting to look like they might try to mate again soon.