Post by angel on Dec 18, 2009 16:56:01 GMT -6
So today I was delighted to discover we have East Coast Gold eggs! I decided since they laid them on the bottom of the tank on the glass, to use a divider and an airstone and try to hatch them in the tank. Then moved on to the cleaning of tanks. We weren't done finding eggs. There was a huge pink blob of eggs on the lid in the community tank! What could have laid them out of the water? Dennis said the snail. But she's alone, and they aren't hermaphrodites so it didn't seem possible. Then I read that occasionally but not often the apple snail will lay eggs when they haven't been fertilized, but also, they can store snail sperm from a mating for months and only lay if the tank conditions are their idea of great. This got me excited to hear, because when we got her the family said they had three others but they all died. It's possible! And I did read too that these layings can take place a month after you get a snail so that lines up too, it's been a month. We may have more golden apple snails in 2-4 weeks!
