Mystery snail explosion

[Brandon p]

Any else have a mystery snails every where. There are several clutches still in the tank. I have always had fish that would eat some of the babies so I was not over run. Will most of these babies survive. If they will I will move the adults. I normally would take the 30 or so that grew big enough to LFS for cash or credit.  Size difference  

[Guppysnail]

Their survival rate depends on food and calcium availability if no predators are present

[Brandon p]

They have a calcium source all the time and there is only 12 neons, 2 blue eyed BN, and ramshorn snails

[Randy]

Wow!  This feels like a "congrats" is in order as I have tried once before to breed mystery snails with no luck.

I am curious to know which of your fish are picking off the smaller ones?

[Brandon p]

Had small clown loaches in there. They kept them under control. I still had snails but at a low level. I moved the loaches to a bigger tank. This is the first hatch since then. I will take the clutch of eggs and put a cheap plastic container drill holes in the top. Then I wet two paper towels doubled, then set a third paper towel into of the wet towels. Place the eggs on top and float in container in the aquarium. Make sure the eggsdont dry out. Check daily or every 2 days and add a little bit of water into the the plastic container. I use a kids medicine syringe. They lay several clutch’s at a time normally. I how that helps. If you are not getting eggs let me know

Edited September 16, 2021 by Brandon p