Mystery snail eggs & inverts journal

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Hey! You know how I say they don’t eat my food. Well, a small group came to enjoy the Repashy Snello this morning. 
 

I am pretty sure these are the ladies. The guys are running late, ha. The guys are so much smaller.

Edited December 1, 2022 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Guppysnail]

These look like ladies. I marked the photo of how to tell. The outwardly rounded abdomen are girls. These are all girls but if one was s boy I marked what the abdomen shape would be. 
 

Once they get most of the biofilm and yummies in the tank gone which are their preferred food source they will start coming to your food more and more. 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 12/1/2022 at 7:21 AM, Guppysnail said:

These look like ladies. I marked the photo of how to tell. The outwardly rounded abdomen are girls. These are all girls but if one was s boy I marked what the abdomen shape would be. 
 

Once they get most of the biofilm and yummies in the tank gone which are their preferred food source they will start coming to your food more and more. 

The one didn’t want anyone near her tail. If they got too close to her tail, she would turn towards them so the tail was no longer near them. Also they were going in and out of the flowerpot caves this morning. I also saw what looked like fanning , she only did it when she wasn’t eating.

Also she was using the legs under the tail differently than the other shrimps. She was periodically tucking them or something.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Drip acclimating my neon as he was discharged from the hospital today. But somebody is helping. 

Ingot

[TheSwissAquarist]

Trust her 😍

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

I figured I might as well put “root tabs” on my outdoor plants too. These were weird. You put a little rubbery cap on the spike, hammer it in, and then remove the cap. The spikes were big too. Like a bratwurst. 😆 Whereas I’m used to the little potted plant spikes. These are time-release so I will do as usual and leave them alone til next year.

Did some weeding too. Another once a year task! 😭 Which is why there are no zoomed out pics of the rose garden. Came in covered in “hitchhikers” and had to pick them all off my clothing. Also a thorn ripped up my thumb and I was bleeding through the garden glove. Hitchhikers in my hair too, so had to get a shower! Note to self: who cares what guests think of the backyard. DO AQUASCAPING INSTEAD. It’s safer!!!

And I always get a little surge of joy when I see this:

Know who does that? Leaf cutter bees! They are solitary mason bees which means they don’t live in a hive. Instead, they find holes or tubes to live in. There are bee houses made especially for this. I have a few. They cut a circle. Then they take it back to their tube. They lay it flat and fill it full of pollen. This takes a lot of trips. Then they lay an egg, and they use the leaf circle to wrap the egg with pollen (food for baby bee) up into a burrito. They line the whole tube with these. They also seal the end of their tube with mud. Anyway…  here’s some internet photos 

 

They are welcome to my rose leaves anytime. ❤️😍

Edited December 4, 2022 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

I saw the gentleman shrimp today 

@TheSwissAquarist

[TheSwissAquarist]

On 12/4/2022 at 8:16 PM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

I figured I might as well put “root tabs” on my outdoor plants too. These were weird. You put a little rubbery cap on the spike, hammer it in, and then remove the cap. The spikes were big too. Like a bratwurst. 😆 Whereas I’m used to the little potted plant spikes. These are time-release so I will do as usual and leave them alone til next year.

Did some weeding too. Another once a year task! 😭 Which is why there are no zoomed out pics of the rose garden. Came in covered in “hitchhikers” and had to pick them all off my clothing. Also a thorn ripped up my thumb and I was bleeding through the garden glove. Hitchhikers in my hair too, so had to get a shower! Note to self: who cares what guests think of the backyard. DO AQUASCAPING INSTEAD. It’s safer!!!

And I always get a little surge of joy when I see this:

Know who does that? Leaf cutter bees! They are solitary mason bees which means they don’t live in a hive. Instead, they find holes or tubes to live in. There are bee houses made especially for this. I have a few. They cut a circle. Then they take it back to their tube. They lay it flat and fill it full of pollen. This takes a lot of trips. Then they lay an egg, and they use the leaf circle to wrap the egg with pollen (food for baby bee) up into a burrito. They line the whole tube with these. They also seal the end of their tube with mud. Anyway…  here’s some internet photos 

 

They are welcome to my rose leaves anytime. ❤️😍

Nice roses! Do you keep any special varieties or just the ones that look nice 🙃?

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 12/5/2022 at 12:13 AM, TheSwissAquarist said:

Nice roses! Do you keep any special varieties or just the ones that look nice 🙃?

I keep Louis Philippe roses (hope i spelled it right). They are considered old world roses, and they are suuuper low maintenance. I don’t do anything to them except the once a year fertilization with time release stuff. They get their water from my automated sprinkler system. I have another rosebush called Bermuda, it produces pink roses in 3 shades on the same bush. That one is not flowering right now but maybe it will now that I fed it. I think everyone deserves some nice tank water on water change day.

Edited December 5, 2022 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

No fanning but she’s so big.

 

[TeeJay]

On 11/12/2022 at 1:57 PM, Guppysnail said:

Copepod. Also good microfauna 

I heard these go great with melted butter.

[nabokovfan87]

On 12/5/2022 at 3:38 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

No fanning but she’s so big.

Probably will release in a few days. I say 24-48 hours is my guess!

Question,

We were trying to figure out how or why WCs were causing issues. I saw someone using an actual drip input for their tank controlled by drops per second type of thing. I don't think you have an overflow, but do you think having a bucket slowly drip in new water would do the trick?

Edited December 6, 2022 by nabokovfan87

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 12/6/2022 at 2:08 AM, nabokovfan87 said:

Probably will release in a few days. I say 24-48 hours is my guess!

Question,

We were trying to figure out how or why WCs were causing issues. I saw someone using an actual drip input for their tank controlled by drops per second type of thing. I don't think you have an overflow, but do you think having a bucket slowly drip in new water would do the trick?

I’ve seen that method. It could possibly help but I don’t have a shelf or anything near this tank, and to do a drip, the bucket would have to be above tank level which further complicates things.

Also I’m due for a top off and wondering how to accomplish it if new water supposedly kills shrimp. Maybe I can top off with water from the other tank.

This pic is not current but just so you can see the stand.

Edited December 6, 2022 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 12/5/2022 at 6:52 AM, TeeJay said:

these go great with melted butter

I accidentally knocked Kratos off the glass during maintenance and when he’s on his back he looks exactly like a clam on the half shell.

I helped him out. Nerites are not the best at righting themselves.

[nabokovfan87]

On 12/6/2022 at 1:43 AM, Chick-In-Of-TheSea said:

I’ve seen that method. It could possibly help but I don’t have a shelf or anything near this tank, and to do a drip, the bucket would have to be above tank level which further complicates things.

Also I’m due for a top off and wondering how to accomplish it if new water supposedly kills shrimp. Maybe I can top off with water from the other tank.

This pic is not current but just so you can see the stand.

do you have a ladder you can set the bucket on?

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 12/6/2022 at 1:52 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

do you have a ladder you can set the bucket on?

That’s a great thought. I do! 🎉 😍

Engineer nabokovfan87 thinks of everything!

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

Are these shrimp eggs?

 

[TheSwissAquarist]

Shrimp usually drop their eggs along with their carapace when molting. I expect they’re snail eggs…?

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 12/7/2022 at 6:43 AM, TheSwissAquarist said:

Shrimp usually drop their eggs along with their carapace when molting. I expect they’re snail eggs…?

Mysteries lay eggs above the waterline. I suppose they could be nerite eggs but the nerite has never laid eggs before and this is the only place the “eggs” appear. I think the nerite is a guy.

[Guppysnail]

They are not shrimp eggs. If they have a jelly sac around them it is snail eggs. Here is what it looks like when a shrimp accidentally drops eggs. Occasionally they drop eggs other times but they do not stick to things. You can see them rolling across the leaf in my video 

 

[TheSwissAquarist]

On 12/7/2022 at 12:58 PM, Guppysnail said:

Occasionally they drop eggs

Maybe they’re sorting out the fungused ones?

[Guppysnail]

On 12/7/2022 at 11:04 AM, TheSwissAquarist said:

Maybe they’re sorting out the fungused ones?

No. First tIme moms have to learn how to fan without dropping 

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 12/7/2022 at 6:58 AM, Guppysnail said:

They are not shrimp eggs. If they have a jelly sac around them it is snail eggs. Here is what it looks like when a shrimp accidentally drops eggs. Occasionally they drop eggs other times but they do not stick to things. You can see them rolling across the leaf in my video 

 

She is so cute. She is trying her best.

[nabokovfan87]

They look like pest snail eggs of some kind.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

On 12/7/2022 at 1:05 PM, nabokovfan87 said:

They look like pest snail eggs of some kind.

I don't have pest snails, unless you count Nibbles, but he/she's the size of a peppercorn and has never grown.  I don't think these eggs could have come from such a little snail.  Technically I have limpets which are pest snails, but most of them are smaller than, or the same size as, these eggs.  If they are eggs.

Edited December 7, 2022 by Chick-In-Of-TheSea