Trochus Snails Reproducing

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Hello,

This morning, I noticed a tiny snail on the glass if my aquarium and I just so happened to notice one of my trochus snails releasing stuff into the water column, how do I tell the sex of snails?

I was just wondering if the snails have bred before, hence the baby snails that I've never seen before or if that's just a hitchhiker.
 

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Yes, they can reproduce in certain tanks. I have purchased a couple dozen juvenile trochus snails from a local kid that had them reproduce in his FOWLR. Unfortunately the juveniles did not seem to do so well in my tank and very few made it to adulthood.

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Yes, they can reproduce in certain tanks. I have purchased a couple dozen juvenile trochus snails from a local kid that had them reproduce in his FOWLR. Unfortunately the juveniles did not seem to do so well in my tank and very few made it to adulthood.

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I mean the baby snail on the glass soon disappeared so I don't know if someone ate it or if it had fallen off and ended up on the sand, I only have two trochus snails at the moment and whilst I saw what I assume to be the male releasing into the water column I have no way of telling if my other one is a female
 

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That's awesome. Had a huge spawn myself months ago. Probably sold 1000 of them to local shops so far from just the 1 spawn. They were so tiny that I was using the 10ml red sea syringe to suck them up 50 at a time. System has 5 tanks. The tanks with fish had 0 babies. Guessing sixline bass gobbled them up in 3 tanks. They were absolutely packed in both sumps. I've seen the adults spawn multiple times since then but no babies since the first time.
 

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Trochus, nasssrius, collanista and strombus reproduce regularly
 

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My banded Trochus snails have reproduced numerous times. I started with about 6 and now have about 20 of them. I havent seen them lay eggs in a while tho here lately. Mine usually lay eggs in a string of white jelly on the glass and in a week or so they hatch and the jelly is gone. There is no way to sex them that I am aware of.
 

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