Hi,
I recently bought a bunch off what i beleive to be pomacea bridgesii (Spike topped applesnails) to produce snails for my crayfish tank once set up.
Two of them where at it yesterday, for that long they did a lap of the tank while adjoined to each other.
Last night i covered tohe tank to keep to the correct photo period for them to lay eggs, what i think to be the female then left the water and began producing what i thought to be eggs. I could see small round balls of the same colour as the snailon its body at least.
I camedown this morning to find absoloutely no eggs, and the said snail upside down on topof my sponge filter. I picked it up and placed it on the botton of the tank, assuming they must not lay their eggs the same night and it was struggling to 'self right' due to the texture of the sponge.
Anyhow, 2 hours on it was still in the same position that i placed it, so i picked it up and touched it's foot to see if it retracted into it's shell, it did not.
I put it back and placed a 'veg' tablet next to it, it hasnt moved for it. It is still alive as it's feelers seemt to be moving, and it does not smell of eggs.
Any idea of what the problem could be?
I suspect water perameters may be an issue as the filters are recently established, however the danios seem to be in good health, and i would assume that they would not attempt to breed if the water was foul in the first place.
A water test is not availiable to me for the next couple of days as at my LFS they have the 'bad' staff member in who doesnt know how to trun the tests, the manager is not back in till later in the week.
Any advice as to what is happening here would be great, i have found limeted info on these snails breeding online, and nothing that indicates wheteher this is normal afetr mating, or even if they are supposed to ttry and lay eggs so soon.
Thanks for reading.
I recently bought a bunch off what i beleive to be pomacea bridgesii (Spike topped applesnails) to produce snails for my crayfish tank once set up.
Two of them where at it yesterday, for that long they did a lap of the tank while adjoined to each other.
Last night i covered tohe tank to keep to the correct photo period for them to lay eggs, what i think to be the female then left the water and began producing what i thought to be eggs. I could see small round balls of the same colour as the snailon its body at least.
I camedown this morning to find absoloutely no eggs, and the said snail upside down on topof my sponge filter. I picked it up and placed it on the botton of the tank, assuming they must not lay their eggs the same night and it was struggling to 'self right' due to the texture of the sponge.
Anyhow, 2 hours on it was still in the same position that i placed it, so i picked it up and touched it's foot to see if it retracted into it's shell, it did not.
I put it back and placed a 'veg' tablet next to it, it hasnt moved for it. It is still alive as it's feelers seemt to be moving, and it does not smell of eggs.
Any idea of what the problem could be?
I suspect water perameters may be an issue as the filters are recently established, however the danios seem to be in good health, and i would assume that they would not attempt to breed if the water was foul in the first place.
A water test is not availiable to me for the next couple of days as at my LFS they have the 'bad' staff member in who doesnt know how to trun the tests, the manager is not back in till later in the week.
Any advice as to what is happening here would be great, i have found limeted info on these snails breeding online, and nothing that indicates wheteher this is normal afetr mating, or even if they are supposed to ttry and lay eggs so soon.
Thanks for reading.
