So last month I posted about my new tank and how I needed some info on how many fish or snails I could get into it…I ran the brand new aquarium for 5 days before adding my one Peruvian snail and one danio in there…today about 3 weeks later I have different snails and some globules that look like sacs or air filled with eggs….idk if they are good or bad for the tank…today I did a quarter water change and removed some of the bigger ones but can anyone give me more information about them?….this was a brand new aquarium and the only thing I put in it was one Peruvian snail….where did these come from?
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They look like snail egg clutches! They’re not bad, and the snails will keep producing eggs while there’s excess food in the tank. The population will stabilize/level out proportionally to the amount of available food.
If you feed less, less will appear!
Honestly looks like bladder snail clutch! Could have hitchhiked in.
I have ramshorn snails in my tank (intentionally) and this looks exactly like their egg clutches. If you do an image search on the web, you will be able to confirm this. Some view them as a pest snail, but I love having them. They are great at helping maintain algae levels and cleaning up excess food. As others have mentioned, their population will stabilize based upon available food.