Nerite Eggs

I’ve have some nerite snails in my heavily planted tank for awhile now. A couple months back I began seeing them riding on each other’s shell, sometimes two smaller snails on the largest tiger nerite. Shortly after I began seeing white eggs on my driftwood and rock structures. I’ve been told that nerites cannot reproduce in freshwater. Apparently they only reproduce in brackish.
I removed the driftwood and scraped all the eggs off and replaced it. All of the sudden once again everything is covered in eggs. This time they are even covering my cholla wood and on patch on the glass.
First question: is there anything I can put in the tank that will eat the eggs?
Second question: should I removed the largest tiger nerite that they all ride around on?

 

I’d suggest you just leave the eggs be.

If you have Nerites, you’re going to have eggs. Trying to fight or eliminate them is a losing battle, at least in my experience.

 

Sometimes nerites will eat their own eggs and given enough time they will dissolve. The only things that I've seen eat the eggs are other snails that DO reproduce in freshwater (often excessively) and even then its a 50/50 chance.

 

That's right, they cannot reproduce in freshwater because the eggs require hard saltwater to hatch and survive. But they will last a long time as white dots that are difficult to remove. Btw, I too have noticed that they like to lay eggs on uneven porous surfaces like cholla wood so I kept an artificial log piece with crannies and holes at the back of the tank (to hide the ugly eggs) for the snails to lay their eggs and mostly, that's where they laid them.

Only the females will lay eggs and they are usually bigger then males, so if you don't want the eggs there's a good chance if you remove the largest one that your problem will be solved.

 

That's right, they cannot reproduce in freshwater because the eggs require hard saltwater to hatch and survive. But they will last a long time as white dots that are difficult to remove. Btw, I too have noticed that they like to lay eggs on uneven porous surfaces like cholla wood so I kept an artificial log piece with crannies and holes at the back of the tank (to hide the ugly eggs) for the snails to lay their eggs and mostly, that's where they laid them.

Only the females will lay eggs and they are usually bigger then males, so if you don't want the eggs there's a good chance if you remove the largest one that your problem will be solved.

Great info, thank you