jmontee

Hello all, I know, I know olive nerites do not breed in FW but I have a question. Please help me identify what I have since I never saw these until I got my nerites.

First off the eggs that they are laying are hatching. I have never seen anything come out but the eggs with little exit holes on them are everywhere. I have read that these snails have free swimming veliger that eat planton/infusoria. The only problem is that I have seen an explosion of tiny slightly snail like nearly microscopic organisms. Many have gone from around half a mm to over three mm in length at this point. They don't look like any snails I have ever seen and more resemble a mussel veliger. They crawl around on the plants, glass and everywhere they can get to. The pic below is my professional rendering of these guys, I am sure you will be able to recognize my God given talents.

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Hopefully they will get big enough for me to post pics but my current camera doesn't even get close.

Thanks for any help, BTW I really do hope they are nerites.

Wood

strange... we would need a photo. your illustration looks like a plate of spaghetti and meatballs. sorry I had to

jmontee

Wood, somehow I detect a slight bit of fun making here. Is this true, LOL. Anyway they really do look like a small plate of food with hump in the middle. If anyone can tell me how to get a 5mp point and shoot camera to get a really close in shot I will get a pic of them.

southerndesert

Here is some info about breeding Olive Nerites in FW

http://www.wilmasthecause.org/Neritesnail.html

Mine also lay eggs as small white spots and some of the young have indeed survived and look allot like a Limpet at first... That may be what you are describing?

Cheers, Bill