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Was cleaning out the Gyre pump in my Frag Tank over the weekend, and found a few of these inside them.

Anyone have an ID on these?

My frag tank only has 3 types of snails in it - Stomatella, Turbos and Pollia Vermetid Snails.
Lots of Amphipods and Copodods also plus one Sexy Shrimp.

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Was cleaning out the Gyre pump in my Frag Tank over the weekend, and found a few of these inside them.

Anyone have an ID on these?

My frag tank only has 3 types of snails in it - Stomatella, Turbos and Pollia Vermetid Snails.
Lots of Amphipods and Copodods also plus one Sexy Shrimp.

2025-10-26 14.44.42.jpg


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Well, I can rule out Stomatellas and Turbos (both are generally spawners rather than demersal egg-layers, and the few examples of eggs from Turbos I've seen don't look right for this).

I can't find any info on Pollia snail eggs (I'm assuming these are Smoky Goblet Snails, A.K.A. Pollia fumosa, to eat Vermeitd snails), but knowing these look pretty similar to dove snail eggs (same taxonomic superfamily) and looking at eggs from other snails in the same family (Pisaniidae; such as Gemophos tinctus - see the third photo in the link below for reference), I think it's a pretty safe assumption these are Pollia eggs.

 
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Well, I can rule out Stomatellas and Turbos (both are generally spawners rather than demersal egg-layers, and the few examples of eggs from Turbos I've seen don't look right for this).

I can't find any info on Pollia snail eggs (I'm assuming these are Smoky Goblet Snails, A.K.A. Pollia fumosa, to eat Vermeitd snails), but knowing these look pretty similar to dove snail eggs (same taxonomic superfamily) and looking at eggs from other snails in the same family (Pisaniidae; such as Gemophos tinctus - see the third photo in the link below for reference), I think it's a pretty safe assumption these are Pollia eggs.

Cool!

I did dump the one's i found, but nice to know they are breeding as they are hard to come by over here!

Your correct also that they are the Pollia Fumosa snails!
 

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Cool!

I did dump the one's i found, but nice to know they are breeding as they are hard to come by over here!

Your correct also that they are the Pollia Fumosa snails!
Happy to help, and thank you for introducing me to a new species' eggs - pics like these are important pieces of biology info that are surprisingly hard to find in a lot of cases!
 
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Happy to help, and thank you for introducing me to a new species' eggs - pics like these are important pieces of biology info that are surprisingly hard to find in a lot of cases!
I wish I had kept them in a beaker now! Will keep an eye out for anymore.
 
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Happy to help, and thank you for introducing me to a new species' eggs - pics like these are important pieces of biology info that are surprisingly hard to find in a lot of cases!
Can confirm now that this is definately what they were.

Have baby's cruising around my frag tank currently.

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