Baby nassarius snails!

[Poseidon]

I belive my nassarius in my nano have bred, there are over 15 babies I counted.

Thing is I only put 2 nass in there to begin with lol,

I've looked hard but I don't see this happening in my display so I'll be transferring these guys over soon, don't want them running out of food

 

[Neopimp]

I had the same thing happen.  But it wasn't sustainable and eventually they reduced their numbers... But if you are successful I need a handful of nass snails

 

[Victoss]

My trochus snails were spawning yesterday too, not sure if many babies will come of it as generally I see the eggs. They like to do it every time I set up a new tank and throw them in, got about 100 in one go once.

 

[yveterinarian]

Congratulations! It's always rewarding to see babies 

 

[sunnykita]

congrats Brandon !

 

[AdInfinitum]

Didn't notice this earlier.

Brandon you may want to make certain that they are actually Nass before you transfer any.  Nassarius are difficult breeders due to a long free swimming larval stage.  Predatory whelks however look very similar but go straight from eggs to baby snails so they breed readily in aquaria.

A closeup pic of the opening of the shell will help ID

 

[Poseidon]

Didn't notice this earlier.

Brandon you may want to make certain that they are actually Nass before you transfer any.  Nassarius are difficult breeders due to a long free swimming larval stage.  Predatory whelks however look very similar but go straight from eggs to baby snails so they breed readily in aquaria.

A closeup pic of the opening of the shell will help ID

awe geez.... looked up a photo of whelks, kinda look similar :/
what are they dangerous too and how, if necessary should i eradicate them?

 

[unibob]

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Didn't notice this earlier.

Brandon you may want to make certain that they are actually Nass before you transfer any.  Nassarius are difficult breeders due to a long free swimming larval stage.  Predatory whelks however look very similar but go straight from eggs to baby snails so they breed readily in aquaria.

A closeup pic of the opening of the shell will help ID

awe geez.... looked up a photo of whelks, kinda look similar :/
what are they dangerous too and how, if necessary should i eradicate them?
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They eat meat.


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[Poseidon]

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[quote author=AdInfinitum link=topic=8600.msg93841#msg93841 date=1400198760]
Didn't notice this earlier.

Brandon you may want to make certain that they are actually Nass before you transfer any.  Nassarius are difficult breeders due to a long free swimming larval stage.  Predatory whelks however look very similar but go straight from eggs to baby snails so they breed readily in aquaria.

A closeup pic of the opening of the shell will help ID

awe geez.... looked up a photo of whelks, kinda look similar :/
what are they dangerous too and how, if necessary should i eradicate them?
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They eat meat.


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nothing for them to eat in the nano though... just left over food maybe and detrius ....

 

[AdInfinitum]

Nassarius are really a type of whelk that are detritus specific.  Jerry is right other whelks will eat anything meaty they can get leftover food or living things. Most have somewhat specialized diets as far as living prey goes many are snail hunters some are clam eaters, some eat worms and slow moving pods.

When I had my fish out of the DT for a bit recently after a couple of weeks I had an explosion in the population in my tank and they killed my cool orange snails and had a go at my conch which fought them off.  Since the wrasses went back in I don't see them anymore but it explains where my stomatellas went and why I haven't been able to keep smaller snails alive.

They couldn't take out my Mexican turbos, conch or ninja star astreas.

 

[theyangman]

They eat the meat.

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