Mystery on glass

jhadaway · Dec 31, 2022

I woke up this morning to find small white lines all over my front glass. It looks like someone had a bunch of straws the size of refills on a pencil and dropped them. I cant get any kind of picture. Looks ia little like railroad ties laid out in a zig zag. Ihave ceriths snails, turbos, nassarious (sp?) and bumble bees. Im hopping these are snail eggs. Anyone have a shot of these?

thanks,
Joe

lapin · Dec 31, 2022

Sounds like snail eggs.

kevgib67 · Dec 31, 2022

If it looks like this, cerith. They become fish food.

Daenion · Dec 31, 2022

kevgib67 said:
If it looks like this, cerith. They become fish food.

I got so many of those eggs. None of them make it to adulthood?

kevgib67 · Dec 31, 2022

No they get eaten. The only snails in my tank that breed successfully are trochus snails. They don’t lay eggs on surfaces instead broadcast spawn. From the original trocus snails I introduced to my tank I now constantly have many in all different sizes.

EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal · Dec 31, 2022

Daenion said:
I got so many of those eggs. None of them make it to adulthood?

Nope

jhadaway · Dec 31, 2022

Thanks everyone. The pattern is different. They are all perfectly straight lines. All the exact same size. My phone wont pick up the image. Ill try and get some black plexiglass there tomorrow for a shot. Its crazy what shows up in these ranks.