Baby snails survival rate?

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Will cerith snail eggs likely survive? This is my second patch of them the first is a week or so old, my clowns seem more interested in the abundance of copepods than picking at the eggs, how long does it take for them to hatch typically?
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They often become food and hatch rate best in cooler water unfavorable for fish
 
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They often become food and hatch rate best in cooler water unfavorable for fish
The only fish in the tank are two clowns and a engineer goby so I imagine if some magically did hatch a few could survive out of luck which is why I am asking. Kind of cool though it took the snail about 2-3 hours to lay one batch of eggs. I wasn’t sure what they were I was scrubbing them off the glass all but the first one I couldn’t reach and this one today I seen whose eggs they were. My stomatellas are constantly having babies.
 

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The only fish in the tank are two clowns and a engineer goby so I imagine if some magically did hatch a few could survive out of luck which is why I am asking. Kind of cool though it took the snail about 2-3 hours to lay one batch of eggs. I wasn’t sure what they were I was scrubbing them off the glass all but the first one I couldn’t reach and this one today I seen whose eggs they were. My stomatellas are constantly having babies.
All 3 occupants listed are bound to eat the eggs
 
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So today I noticed a bunch of round look tiny snails all over the black glass which I ofc can not get to along side a few hundred probably thousands of copepods. Could these be baby cerith snails from the first batch she had? Sorry pretty hard to get a clear picture sometimes.

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