Assassian Snails Breeding

[labnjab]

After having our assassins for several months they are now laying eggsthumbs2: I've noticed 2 clutches on the glass so far. I hope most of them survive so they can start to win the battle on our trumpet snail infestation.

[annageckos]

Very cool. I love the assain snails, but I also like the MTS. Good luck, may your snails breed like, well, snails! About how much did you pay for your assains? Around here they are 2.99 each.

[Northernguy]

Good luck with those guys LR!
They are 5 bucks each up here.:22:

[Red]

yep, they will breed as long as they have snails to eat.

[labnjab]

I payed $22 for 4 shipped

How long does it take for them to hatch?

[Northernguy]

Its been awhile since I read these but they may be of some help for you.


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[labnjab]

Thank you it did helpthumbs2:

[korith]

Its been awhile since I read these but they may be of some help for you.


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The arizona invert link is a great one, probably one of the better articles out there on assassin snails. I bought 6 originally several months ago, and now I've got a bunch of little ones. They will put a hurting on the trumpet snails, but it'll take a long while. At the moment they keep the pest snail population in check.

[labnjab]

Yeah my sand is literally crawling with MTS, lol. The only good thing is they eat any excess food in a hurry-:hmm3grin2orange:. I am staring to notice a good amount of empty mts shells so I'm hoping the Assassins are eating them faster then the mts reproduce

[labnjab]

I think I made a mistake, After reading the article I don't think they are Assassin eggs because it says that assassin eggs are 1 per clutch. This looks like 15 or more really small eggs in a bunch on the glass. Could it be cory eggs?

[rich311k]

Sound like pond snail eggs to me. Does it look almost like a smear on the glass.

[korith]

Yeah my sand is literally crawling with MTS, lol. The only good thing is they eat any excess food in a hurry-:hmm3grin2orange:. I am staring to notice a good amount of empty mts shells so I'm hoping the Assassins are eating them faster then the mts reproduce

Yep it's like that in my tank too. For a while I had more assassin snails than mts, so to keep the assassins reproducing I needed more mts. So I actually took an empty 10g, and put just mts in it, with some plant trimmings. Hoping to sell a dozen or two assassins each month at the local club, along with the shrimp. I'd love to get the other color morphs of assassin snails, the ones I have at the moment are yellow and black.

[labnjab]

Sound like pond snail eggs to me. Does it look almost like a smear on the glass. That is what it looks like, but I haven't seen any pond snails or added any plants for the last several months. All I see are thousands of MTS and the few assassins

The ones we have are yellow and black. If we get a large number going we may set up a tank for them so we can sell them too:hmm3grin2orange:

[korith]

That is what it looks like, but I haven't seen any pond snails or added any plants for the last several months. All I see are thousands of MTS and the few assassins

The ones we have are yellow and black. If we get a large number going we may set up a tank for them so we can sell them too:hmm3grin2orange:

Get a container of some sort and put the eggs into it, and toss an air stone in there, then float the container in one of you tanks. In a few days you'll know if its fry or snails:p