My tank has been running about 7 months and it has matured slowly but very nicely. It’s a 90 gallon with a 55 gallon sump/fuge. I only have a yt damsel, 4 large bar gobies and two clownfish. I feed at least double what my fish can eat in an effort to gently raise the nutrients.
I started out a few months ago with 80 or so baby trochus snails. Now I have thousands of them. They seem to thrive in the sump/fuge. I’m not 100% these are trochus snails because they seem to max out a little bigger than a bb (0.177”) before they die by getting covered in green algae or choked out by coralline on their shells. They don’t broadcast spawn like every other trochus ive seen. They lay donut shaped egg sacs. Here is my first thread on them. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/how-early-can-trochus-snails-breed.466745/ I have a video of them laying eggs on the second page. These are starting to become a liability to my float switches.
A couple months back i noticed a handful of baby margarita snails. I have 6-8 that are a good centimeter across and I’ve seen a couple smaller ones from a second spawning.
~A month ago I found a couple small conical shaped snails that looked strikingly similar to my nassarius snails. I ended up removing them in case they were whelks. Well the past couple nights as the lights go blue i noticed all my nassarius snails gathering up in the rocks. I initially assumed a large margarita snail died in the rocks. Last night i noticed the rocks were COVERED in eggs. Easily an 8”x8” area. I removed my mechanical filtration to give these eggs a good chance.
I’ve owned reef tanks for 13+ years and never had a snail breed. Now I have several thousand snails. What could I possibly be doing so right?
I started out a few months ago with 80 or so baby trochus snails. Now I have thousands of them. They seem to thrive in the sump/fuge. I’m not 100% these are trochus snails because they seem to max out a little bigger than a bb (0.177”) before they die by getting covered in green algae or choked out by coralline on their shells. They don’t broadcast spawn like every other trochus ive seen. They lay donut shaped egg sacs. Here is my first thread on them. https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/how-early-can-trochus-snails-breed.466745/ I have a video of them laying eggs on the second page. These are starting to become a liability to my float switches.
A couple months back i noticed a handful of baby margarita snails. I have 6-8 that are a good centimeter across and I’ve seen a couple smaller ones from a second spawning.
~A month ago I found a couple small conical shaped snails that looked strikingly similar to my nassarius snails. I ended up removing them in case they were whelks. Well the past couple nights as the lights go blue i noticed all my nassarius snails gathering up in the rocks. I initially assumed a large margarita snail died in the rocks. Last night i noticed the rocks were COVERED in eggs. Easily an 8”x8” area. I removed my mechanical filtration to give these eggs a good chance.
I’ve owned reef tanks for 13+ years and never had a snail breed. Now I have several thousand snails. What could I possibly be doing so right?
