Hey guys.
It’s Andrew Esquivel here back with another tutorial.
And today I’m going to show you how to get your mystery snail eggs to hatch.
So, if you’ve had a mystery snail in you aquarium like that, got right there, you may
come across some eggs that look like this.
Let my camera to focus on it really quick.
There we go.
Now, there are certain things you have to make sure in order for the eggs to come to
fruition to where you too can get baby mystery snails.
As you can see I’ve got plenty growing inside of my little containment unit here.
And this all came from one egg sack.
So, if you do this, be prepared to have a lot of baby snails.
It’s actually not all that hard.
Mystery snails will lay their eggs just above the water line.
And they do this for two reasons.
One.
If a mystery snail egg sack is submerged under water, they will not come into fruition.
All the mystery snail eggs in the egg sack will die.
That’s because mystery snails actually breathe air.
That’s why they come and crawl up your glass from time to time and they have their little
organ that siphons air from the top.
That’s kind of like a little cylindrical arm that comes up and allows them to breathe
the air without coming out of the water.
Baby mystery snails are laid above the water because they do need access to direct oxygen
through the air.
The problem is, you can’t just leave it be.
They need to remain moist because they are aquatic creatures.
So, in order to do this, there’s not really much you have to do.
Simply don’t fill your tank all the way up to the top.
Let it have some room for the eggs to be inside of the area of the tank where it’s going
to be above the water line so it doesn’t stay submerged.
Next, two basic things.
You have averso top on your tank, hopefully.
And if you’ll notice, all these dots and everything, all this water, this is condensation
build up.
And that’s because we have a heater in the back of the tank and my current tank temperature
74.8, preferably you’d want it a little warmer than that, 76 78 degrees around there.
But, if you have the heater and averso top, it keeps the condensation building up.
And what it does, it will keep the eggs moist due to the condensation that builds up in
the tank naturally as long as you have the heater and averso top.
And because they’re above the water line, they can also breathe oxygen while remaining
moist.
Give it a few weeks, and then you’ll start to notice the egg sack has some ripples in
it.
That’s because the baby of mystery snails have come to fruition, coming out of the egg
sack and they’re going to be so super tiny to the point where you probably going to need
a magnifying glass about ten times zoomed or ten times magnified to see them properly.
And they will grow really quickly.
These guys right here haven’t been with me all that long.
Maybe two to three weeks.
So, make sure that your mystery snails are in hard water, generally around 200 parts
per million general hardness.
Put them in a containment unit like this so that they have a fair shot of growing up without
being eaten if you have any fish that might see them as potential food.
I personally feed them algae wafers as well as blanched zucchini.
I can’t stress enough how important it is to give them blanched vegetables, like blanched
zucchini, blanched cucumber, stuff like that because it contains a lot of calcium that
they really really need in order for their shell growth to be good.
Mystery snails can’t just survive off of algae alone.
They’re not algae eating snails.
So, even though I feed them algae wafers, that’s still not enough.
The algae wafers contain a lot more than just algae and they as well as the blanched zucchini
and cucumber never feed.
If you don’t know how to do that, blanching zucchini or cucumber, I have a tutorial here
on YouTube.
It’s very simple and it’s extremely inexpensive, very much worth your time to do so your fish
and snails will thank you tremendously for it.
That’s why all my snail shells look really good.
They’re not cracked, like you see in aquarium or pet stores with aquatic pets.
So, hopefully this little guide has helped you out and, you know, that there’s nothing
really particularly special you have to do as long as you have the tank set up properly.
So, there you go.
That’s all the information you really need.
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