Is it fair to say I'm about to be overrun by snails?

[Sierra_Bravo]

So the full moon must have made my astraea turbo snails feel "in the mood" as I have snail eggs all over the glass and live rock, about a dozen different deposit sites. Seeing as how I do not have fish currently in my new tank, does this mean I can expect a population explosion of snails and if so, then what?

 

[scriptmonkey]

Dang, sure you didn't leave the Barry White playing for them?

 

[donnievaz]

Not sure but I'd guess that even without predators the survival rate is likely small.

 

[Sierra_Bravo]

Dang, sure you didn't leave the Barry White playing for them?

Note to self: Stop dosing Viagra.

 

[furyofthegnomes]

Mine have been laying eggs like that every week or so for past few months. Most of the babies seem to make it down to my sump. It's either that or my Red line wrasse is eating all he can find in the tank. Whatever is going on, in a couple of weeks keep an eye on your filter socks. I change mine twice a week and I would find a bunch in there, usually alive. I then either place them in my fuge (which has become a nursery of sorts until they're bigger then I move them to the tank) or put them directly back into the tank when the wrasse isn't looking. I don't know how fast they grow but I haven't had any grow to full size yet in the few month they've been laying eggs. The ones I've been able to see have grown to about 25% the size of the adults, maybe there's some bigger hiding in the rocks.