Are these snail eggs?

[dtiedke]

I started getting these shortly after an order from GARF of about 100 snails of various types. According to GARF, they are snail eggs (I am getting the spiral/curley-q egg laying too) and I have nothing to worry about.

OK...so I assume they are just that. They are extremely small, about the diameter of a Number 2 pencil lead (not the whole pencil, just the lead) and they do not move (as far as I can tell anyway).

One thing though, they are showing up on things I wouldn't expect snails to travel on. For example, my clams have them on the sides of the shell...

I couldn't get a picture of them on the front glass as my wife just cleaned it last night. But I did notice that they look like they have a yellow "yoke" when light is shined through them.

Anyway, as I have never seen flatworms in person, I have no way of knowing if these are them or not. Any input would be appreciated...

Dave

P.S. Excuse the poor picture quality. I just got a Nikon CoolPix 5700 and I am an extreme novice at taking macro photos....

 

[Anonymous]

They don't look like any flatworm I've ever seen...they tend to be much more "flat" (sorry), their bodies seem to follow the surface they're on, and these things appear to have their own shape. Plus, flatworms usually have a distinctly..."gelatinous" look.

 

[Anonymous]

Man, I don't know what those are.... Got more pics?

 

[Jamesurq]

looks like someone had a party and got confetti on the rocks...

 

[Anonymous]

Need more pics.

Could they be limpets, or nudibranchs? They could be flatworms, but the ones I usually see are more elliptical and really tiny. Give us a reference in the next set of pics for size (ie: a dime, ruler or something similar) Are they hard to the touch?

 

[SCIronMike]

I have them ALL over my tank. I really do think they are snail eggs since after a batch of the eggs disappear, there are tons of baby snails in the tank.

 

[SCIronMike]

Here is a pic of them in my tank.

 

[dtiedke]

Here is a pic of them in my tank.

Yup...that's them! Anyone???

Dave

 

[SCIronMike]

Here is a pic of them in my tank.

Yup...that's them! Anyone???

Dave

They are definitely eggs. I've seen them being laid. This also started for me after getting snails from GARF. These snails reproduce like crazy and the baby snails actually survive.

 

[Anonymous]

One thing though, they are showing up on things I wouldn't expect snails to travel on. For example, my clams have them on the sides of the shell...

The sides of my derasa shell are probably where my cerith snails reproduce most frequently, underneath the shade of its mantle. They seem to like to congregate there.

 

[nflores]

Under the mantle of your clam?

If they're little white cerith-looking snails, those are parasitic Pyramidellidae snails. They're sucking the juice right out of your poor derasa.

 

[investigator1]

Well you've got some happy snails there buddy. You have created one romantic environment for them. Looks like your going into the E-snail business.

 

[Anonymous]

Under the mantle of your clam?

If they're little white cerith-looking snails, those are parasitic Pyramidellidae snails. They're sucking the juice right out of your poor derasa.

Nope, not pyramidellids, although I did have a few of those a while back. I meant on the shell, underneath the sides where the mantle sticks out and shades the shell. They're definitely cerith snails. Their shells aren't white, and they graze on the rocks and glass at night. My point was that ceriths will go pretty much anywhere---inside skimmers, overflows, etc. and on the shell of a clam as well.