Nassarius snails breeding and turbo eggs

[jc74]

Well, I sort of let the hobby slip for a while. I went to siphon the substrate a couple days ago and wondered why it was so clean. No clouds came up like they used to. When I was done, the bottom was crawling with nassarius snails. They were probing around all confused by being sucked out of the sand bed. Apparently they've been reproducing since I haven't gotten new snails in a couple years, and never that many.

I'm trying to get my tank back up to speed. Would too many of these be a problem? I have no idea how many are in there. Also, is there a way to protect turbo snail eggs until they hatch? Their numbers are dwindling, and every time they lay eggs on the glass they're gone in a day or two. I don't see the clowns eating them. They seem to disappear over night.

 

[jc74]

I also have no idea what my avatar is. I haven't posted here in quite a while. I wasn't even born in 1961. lol

 

[bang guy]

Can you post a picture of your Snails? A closeup of the opening would be best. I doubt they are Nassarius, perhaps a look-alike.

 

[jc74]

I'll see if I can get one tomorrow when the lights come back on. They may bury themselves again but I'll check in the morning.

I heard nassarius are hard to breed since they have a swimming larval stage that gets sucked up by the filter. I hate to say it but my impellers were both broken on my eheim wet/dry and fluval for a while and all I was running were two mag 3's to circulate the water. I have 2 clowns, snails, and some hermits that are still thriving (finally got new impellers last week).

 

[bang guy]

The swimming larval stage actually isn't the worst part. They have a feeding swimming larval stage. If one didn't starve it would be a 1 in a million shot.