#NERITE SNAIL EGGS FREE#

Usually i breed about 100 a month and sell them to my local pet shop. Just lower the level of salt until you reach your tanks ppm. Replace 5Ml in the morning and 5ML at night. Neutralizing water from harmful chemicals using(Tetra Aqua Clear (or any other brand).Simply ever morning take out 10ml of tank water. I would treat about gallon of freshwater(for people out there that don’t know what Im talking about treating your water. Once you see a nice shine to the shell on your snail, its time to move them. And purchase some algae chips.Ĭhop these algae chips into small fine grains. If not you can head to your local aquarium or pet shop. You can feed them algae that's on your décor or driftwood. You’ll see that they're very small larvae. Don’t want your snail to die from bad water. Usually about every 3 days I well perform a 50 percent water change. I usually fill the saltwater level just enough to cover the decor/driftwood.(this is where youll place your decor cover with eggs)Ĥ. My percentage increased about 80 percent when I’ve hatched Nerite in fully saltwater tank. Which well increase the level of survival as juveniles. The reason is once these Nertie are born at this stage they need all the calcium and mineral to develop a health strong shell. Also a marine/saltwater (freshwater salt wont work). A air bubble line that is set very low 1bubble ever 2 seconds. I’m using a 1 gallon tank to nurse the babies nitrites. Wait about 72 hours to get a nice size decor with eggs on them.ģ. WARNING DONT TRY TO REMOVE THESE EGGS BY SCRAPPING THEM. These eggs look like little sesame seeds. Until you see a good amount of eggs on item/decor. Driftwood has tons of algae for these baby to feed.Ģ. What quality should be at the best possible. Place this item where your Nerite well be. Pick a item(s) with some good algae mounted to it. As cold as a bowl of goldfish water.Īlright time to get down to the good stuff with directions.ġ. As far as water temperature my hatching is room temp. I had a few eggs that hatched a month later. Nerite eggs can take a long time to hatch from a few days to a few weeks. What will matter is how you will hatch these eggs. Let me be a little bit more clear about this. It doesn't matter what kind of water you breed them in whether it be fresh salt or brackish. I well explain this in a bit and the reason why. I’ve notice my best Nerita are laid on drift wood. In case my Nertie might want to lay a few more. I usually wait about maximum 72 hours before moving the egg. 99.9 percent of the time they’ll lay eggs on your glass rocks or hard surface. How do you get your little snails to lay eggs? More they’ll eat the more they’ll will to lay eggs. Once eggs are laid they can be transfer to a fully saltwater tank non brackish water I well explain this later. Lets start off slow to clear the water from messy breeding details. It seems to be a lot of confusion to a lot of people. Well I’ve been breeding Nerites for a while. You could go broke trying, but getting them to a sellable size would take months/years. Suffice to say, you won't make any money breeding them. Feeding them becomes a bit of a challenge given their extremely small size.

#NERITE SNAIL EGGS FREE#

At seventy snails per egg case, mine would have hatched out about 7,000 snails from those hundred 'eggs.' Yikes! When they hatch they're free swimming planktonic and attracted to light. My tank would often have about a hundred egg cases (that I'd thought were the eggs) scattered around the tank. Given the number of 'eggs' my nerites laid, when you consider there are seventy fry in each one, they're very, very prolific in the wild. That gives you an idea as to how small the baby snails are when they hatch. I did find an extensive article on breeding them at and was surprised to find that the 'eggs' we find in our tanks are actually egg cases and inside those cases are about seventy real eggs. I'd always assumed someone somewhere was breeding them as they're so very inexpensive.

Nerite snail eggs