New Mystery Snail Clutch Laid Today 8/4

This time, I scraped it off side of tank with a razor blade, didn't murder them, so that another snail cannot knock it into the tank. It is pretty big. A few days earlier I interrupted a female laying eggs and have a tiny clutch from then too.

This time, I put some tank water in a small tupperware thingy, ten put another tupperware thingy on top of that one, with damp paper towel, clutches on top of that, and then cover with holes in it on the top of that. I put it in the empty side of the betta tank that is kept at 81 degrees, with the light on for now, so I won't destroy it with tank cleaning the big 40G and it won't run under the filter output and drown.

Hopefully these hatch. I do not know what I will do with them, but we shall see.

 

Congrats on the new clutch!

What I always did with mine was, I got a piece of styrofoam and a net breeder basket. I attached the breeder to the tank and floated the clutch on the styrofoam inside the breeder. This way they were protected from the fish and kept in the same tank. I would mist the clutch with tank water daily so it would not dry out. Then after 10-12 days when they hatched, the new babies would fall in to the net breeder and can live in it for a few weeks or so until they were big enough not to get eaten.

Good luck!

 

Congrats on the new clutch!

What I always did with mine was, I got a piece of styrofoam and a net breeder basket. I attached the breeder to the tank and floated the clutch on the styrofoam inside the breeder. This way they were protected from the fish and kept in the same tank. I would mist the clutch with tank water daily so it would not dry out. Then after 10-12 days when they hatched, the new babies would fall in to the net breeder and can live in it for a few weeks or so until they were big enough not to get eaten.

Good luck!

I tried similar to that but when I do water changes and cleaning of the tank, I destroy them usually by drowning them. I do not have Styrofoam either. I had some other day with the delivery of my Assassin snails and stupid me threw it out.

 

You can always go to a fast food place and order a drink with a Styrofoam cup and just cut out a piece of it. That's what I used - a regular cup.

I am not sure what you mean by "drowning" them. The clutch is always on the styrofoam and even when changing the water, they never get wet.

 

You can always go to a fast food place and order a drink with a Styrofoam cup and just cut out a piece of it. That's what I used - a regular cup.

I am not sure what you mean by "drowning" them. The clutch is always on the styrofoam and even when changing the water, they never get wet.

I don't know. Mine float around the tank. It goes under the filter output, water pours into the container I had them in. Or, when I do water changes, I wipe clean the sides, move the breeder nets down especially if there are guppies in there, so they do not die, I vacuum the gravel so am moving ornaments around, etc., not really paying attention to the floating eggs. They get sopping wet, usually the container I have them in fills with water, and I drown them. I would imagine Styrofoam would tip over and dump into the tank. I had my net breeder up because I had baby guppies in there, and I had to lower it so that they did not get out of water with water changes. I must be rougher than most when I clean my tank. I also have Cory's who love to fly up to the surface of the water for some air and then dip back down to the bottom like rockets.

 

Then you need to take the clutch out of the tank when you are cleaning.

 

Then you need to take the clutch out of the tank when you are cleaning.

I am afraid it will get cold. I have my room like an ice box. It takes a good hour and then some to do my water changes. Hopefully I won't have any of these issues in the other tank, less activity.

 

Then you need to take the clutch out of the tank when you are cleaning.

So I know this is semI off topic but I saw in another thread you said you have used Kent's Liquid Calcium to up the Calcium in one of your tanks. I'm interested in doing this in my 10gal Snail tank but I want to make sure I don;t over do it. What dosage did you use? I've heard 1 drop per gal but I just want to get someone opinion who has already used the product before I potentially hurt my poor snails. Thank you for your help!