Some snail questions.

[RocketScientist]

Alrighty, first know that I'm a clean freak so about every other day my arm is in the tank and I'm scraping algae/buffing off algae from the tank. So its the second day and I was evaluating the tank to see if I would have to clean today and I saw a different color than green or brown/red.

There are some little white, for lack of better word, things on the acrylic. The only thing ever on the glass are the snails so does anyone know if any of the below snails can sucesffuly reproduce in a home aquarium?

All the snails in the tank.

• Bumble Bee Snails
• Nerite Snails
• Onyx Nassrius Snails
• Astrea Snails
• Cerrith Snails

So if anyone has any experience with these guys breeding in your tank could you tell me what you've found to be helpful?
Anything I should try to do to help these guys out?

I'd appreciate any information!
Thanks!

 

[returnofsid]

Those are actually very common...and I can't remember what they're called...lol. Ends with "roids" I think. They're a part of the new tank process and usually don't live long. They're totally harmless. If you look at them REALLY close, you can see that they are spiraled (hope I spelled that right) In fact, it seems to me that their name has something to do with spiral. They're spiraled like a freshwater snail. Shoot, somewhere in my posts of when my first tank was new, I posted the same question. Got a lot of info about them back then. I'll see if I can find it.

 

[4251cpd]

I agree w/R O S. They are filter feeding marine worms, kinda like 2nd cousins of the feather duster. No harm no foul.

 

[matts125]

they have this one on the money, they are common in new tanks and will spread pretty fast but cause no harm at all, some day they will just all vanish!

Matt

 

[returnofsid]

Found em....right here on RF even!!

http://www.reeffrontiers.com/photos_corals/showphoto.php?photo=634&cat=543

 

[RocketScientist]

Well those aren't them. I looked a bit but found this web site and they are snail egg clusters.

http://home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyummy42/

Though I do have those guys in the fuge or well their calcium shells. I haven't really looked that close at the fuge.