tricky_tink

Need help! What are these things and how do I get rid of them.
Transparent, short, fat, round bodies. No visable mouth. Clueless here. Are they harmful?

sirdarksol

That looks like a mass of snail eggs.
Is it moving on its own?
Do you have apple/mystery snails in the tank? If so, you've just got to keep an eye out for the egg masses and manually pull them out.

tricky_tink

The only snails in the tank are the ones you see in the picture. They are small finger nail sized. I have seen there eggs and they are like little individual balls placed on the glass in small patches. So I don't think its their eggs? I have cory cats and 1 african butterfly other than that its all livebearers.

tricky_tink

And no they don't move. One came partly unattached to the glass so it does just sway in the current.

mathas

I'm with sirdarksol, those look like snail eggs.

The eggs you described "individual balls placed on the glass" actually sound more like corydoras eggs than snail eggs. Did they look something like this picture?

tricky_tink

Yes just like that! I've had tons of those but not one single cory baby? In fact every 2 months I get those eggs but never had one hatch I guess. Or do you think the snails are eating them? Whew thanks guys!

tricky_tink

So how many snail will come out of those? I have about 2 3 dozen of them in the tank. Should I get rid of some by scrapping them off?

mathas

Your lack of cory fry could be because something (snails, parents, other fish) is eating the eggs, or something is eating the fry after they hatch. Livebearers might do this, depending on what type, or the african butterfly likely would as well.

As far as what to do with the snail eggs, it's up to you. If you want more snails, leave them in place... if you don't want more snails, remove them. Just the one picture you posted looks like there could be over 100 eggs in that clutch. I don't know enough about snails to know how many eggs normally hatch, or how many juvenile snails normally survive.

Fishies-for-me

many hatch...many survive...lol