Cerith Snails Reproduced

[Mckibbonator]

I bought 10 Cerith Snails at elite reef fest on saturday. I woke up today and checked the tank to see how they were doing, to my surprise there was a small white ribbon along me over flow along with two of the snails. I'm amazed they did this since allot of people and blogs have told me that they are nearly impossible to breed. I'm pretty hopeful they will survive since there is nothing in the tank to eat them. I guess it's a good sign that I can add fish now.

 

[Zooid]

My experience has shown that Ceriths lay eggs all the time. The problem is that
most have pelagic larvae and will not survive long enough to settlement. I believe there
is one species in the area that have an extremely short pelagic cycle. If you're lucky, you
have that species. Most likely they are from florida though and those are not easily raised.

 

[Mckibbonator]

It would be cool if they got to adult hood. Finger crossed. Thanks for the info.

 

[honoreetamore]

LOL Ya, they lay all the time... I have yet to see any babies tho sadly. Maybe if you don't have fish and you do lots of phytos etc.. maybe yoiu can get em to live!

 

[Cake_Boss]

MBI thread bud! Mine is in there as well. I got a few to grow, but my red mandarin kept eating them. Maybe it was the plethora of wrasses I went through?

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[dv3]

yup mine leave jizz on the walls alot but no babies

 

[ChrisB]

yup mine leave jizz on the walls alot but no babies

I actually had a few babies growing in my old cube at one point. Was shocked cuz they had never gone anywhere before.