Anybody interested in some Zebra and Horned Nerites?

[eklikewhoa]

Re: Anybody interested in some Zebra and Horned Nerites?

Here is the list of fish I have with my nerites where I don't notice any eggs.

Otocinclus Niger
Celestichthys margaritatus
Crystal Red shrimp

[Spot86t]

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hrm...  I can't believe the oto's would scrub them off the glass.  Doubt the galaxies are getting them either.  I have noticed though, the ones with my baby lf bn plecos often have the eggs remvoed from the glass, but you can still see a tiny ring where it used to be.

how many nerites are in your tank, and what size are they?  mine are plain olive, diameter averages nickel size.

I might just have to join your order anyway - i've got a brackish setup...  I colud use a divider to make a 'snail section' since it's the home of 2 scats and 2 green spotted puffers.   Oh, and one guppy (no clue how it got in there).   Then maybe if they breed, I could supply snails for everybody!  

[eklikewhoa]

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Mine are in a 30g std olives and there are 5 of them.

[Spot86t]

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that's the planted tank over where you had the babies?  Hrmmm....  Maybe it's because I don't have nearly the foilage you do in the tanks where I have nerites, so they're on the glass more than the plants - hence more eggs on glass....  I wouldn't notice them nearly as much (and it wouldn't bother me at all) if they laid on the plants.

[Brownsnoutuk]

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You should stick with the Haustrums. They lay eggs above the water line so you can remove them before they hatch.

Only thing bad is they'll completely destroy your plants.

[Spot86t]

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Ya know...  I think I might have at least one of those (Haustrum).  This morning I noticed one of my big snails (bout 1.5-2" diameter - sold to me as a 'pond snail') laying a giant clump of eggs above the waterline and just below the top tank trim.   Mass of whitish eggs, each roughly the same diameter as a bb.  

if that's what they are, how long before they hatch?  and should I leave them where they are?  If so, won't they dry up?

[Brownsnoutuk]

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Do you have a pic of the snail?

It takes, from what i remember, upto 2 weeks for the snails to hatch. They wont dry up. My eggs are always a white/blue colour. Each of my spawns that i kept produced 50-60 snails that hatched. There are quite a few eggs that dont hatch. 1.5-2" is medium sized for a Haustrum.

[Spot86t]

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Thought i had a pic on my phone, but can't figure out how to get pics off phone and onto computer at work  :( .  book for the @#$% phone is at home and home computer too low-tech to work with phone.

[rrocket2002]

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Your phone have email?  Send it to yourself via email on the phone.

[Spot86t]

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I think they charge a fee for that.   I'm on a budget ya know....

[eklikewhoa]

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Some phones have a usb hook up.

[Spot86t]

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yea, mine does, but when I look at the folder (on the computer) under pictures, there's NOTHING in there and I *know* I've got pics on the phone.  I can't find where to tell it to save the pics to the little memory chip thing or to the phone.  

phone is a motorola.  model name nowhere on it, it's called a lazr or something like that.  Came out right after the razr did, but it's not a flip phone.  other than that is almost just like the razr.  

Geez, that's pathetic I cant even remember what kind of stinkin phone i've got.  You guys need to team up.  It only takes 3 people last I heard to have someone committed to an asylum.  That's where I need to be.

[rrocket2002]

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I'll second....

[Spot86t]

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hey you!  I got some pics of your blue girl on my phone  :)  Just took them to make sure I had pics on the phone.  Still can't get them off phone!  lol

I'm ready to take this non-user-friendly phone into the bathroom and let it take a pic of what it looks like to get flushed firsthand.....

Gotta remember tho - budget - cant' afford new phone....  plug in phone, make it sit in the corner until it decides to share my own pics with me....

[Brownsnoutuk]

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