Anybody have a picture of what pond snail eggs look like? I have this odd feeling that's what a little thing is in my aquarium, but I'm not positive. I'd take a picture but right now my camera is stuck to a tripod taking time lapse pictures... and I don't want to take it down. Anyway, does it look like a little ball of slime with clear/white spots in it?
What do snail eggs look like?
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Well.... since I know, I COULD remove them.....
or I could just let the new snails meet the same demise the old ones have, clown loaches
After I bought a banana plant for my aquarium at Petsmart, I've had snails. Fortunately, like I said, most of them get picked off and sucked up by my clown loaches. They think escargot is a delicacy, apparently... because there are already a few noticable snail shells laying on the bottom mixed in with the substrate.
Snails are fine additons to tanks. Of course yours won't be around for too long with those loaches. They would have a field day in my tanks, but keep them away!! 
I had the same thing happen to me. I purchased a floating plant and started seeing little snails moving through the plant. My tiny 2.5 gallon had to have had at least 30 snails in it. I moved some snails to my two 10 gallon tanks. The ones in the 10 gallons are doing fine but some of the ones in the 2.5 gallon have white on their shells. Anyone know what it is?
Oh, yeah those are snail eggs. I found an egg mass in my sons tank under the hood from the ivory snail that is in his tank. I hatched them myself (I did't want hundreds in HIS tank!) and they are now growing happily in the 5 gal eclipse. They are only the size of the eraser on a pencil.
Oh yeah, the loaches will really like that treat
If I had fish that ate them I would let nature take its course. My son's tank only has tetras so I am fairly sure we would have had a snail infestation.
Oh yeah, the loaches will really like that treat
If I had fish that ate them I would let nature take its course. My son's tank only has tetras so I am fairly sure we would have had a snail infestation.Snails only multiply to excess levels if provided with plenty of food. Therefore a tank with a snail population explosion is also a tank which is which is overfed, undermaintained, or stocked with dead and dying plants, or some combination of those three.
They are like little blobs of jelly. You can try removing them, but it is not that easy, and those are only the ones you can see! There is usually plenty more in places you cant see.
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I agree, if you can see one blob, chances are, there are more..... but you don't have a thing to worry about as you've already said, thanks to the loach buddies!