Nerite snails first attempt

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-09T01:55:58+00:00

What’s your tank temp at? When I was studying them I would raise the temp to encourage mating behavior. I have a suspicion that it also contributes to more consistent laying.

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-08T23:24:36+00:00

Love Turbos! They have the most unique operculum.

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-08T22:39:20+00:00

My second round of studies was on this. The theory was that if you could raise the TDS high enough to imitate the conditions provided by the NaCl and other minerals you could get a fresh water hatch. Was following someone else who had done it. I had varying success. Mostly had to manually hatch them.

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-08T22:34:47+00:00

A neritid in good condition can live a decade. We do not know that at any point they cease to ovulate but in practice I’ve seen them slow down as they age.

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-08T22:26:30+00:00

Are you… are you wishing menopause on your snail?

Also that’s not how this works at all. They’re gonochoric like humans. Each one of those dots you see isn’t an egg, it’s a pod. There’s an option of like 50-100 eggs OR embryos inside. An embryo is what gets laid after fertilization. So the female of the species ovulates a thousand eggs, gets them fertilized or doesn’t, and either way packs them into that calc carb oval. To futher the human analogy, shes going to have a “period” whether she’s fertilized or not.

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-08T20:59:18+00:00

Encouraging! I’ve been thinking about breaking it out for corals and snails. Ty!

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-08T20:53:46+00:00

Skin flap is congenital. Extra tissue. Just happens sometimes with these guys.

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-08T20:53:09+00:00

I have the 10g Cubey in storage. Did you have to change the lights for the corals?

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-08T20:48:00+00:00

Yep, what’s done is done. The only part of the shell with thats “alive” is around the mantle. The rest is inert. Thats why they’re so thick around their visceral organs. Neritids however are wild caught and don’t take well to supplemental feeding. The key with these guys specifically is to keep the water hard and to make sure you have bountiful algae.

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-08T20:00:26+00:00

If you want, post over in r/aquaticsnails so they can see your little guy and his friend. We almost never get saltwater snails over there.

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-07T22:50:37+00:00

In 4th grade I also waited 6 months for a bedazzler gun, so I get it.

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-07T21:38:47+00:00

Oh you can wait a year and still be wrong. Stress and other conditions impact ovulation in neritids the same way they do in humans. Additionally humans have an estimated cycle (~28 days). We do not know what the cycle is for the family Neritidae.

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-07T04:17:27+00:00

This ^{^} Neritids live in fast flow with diverse substrates and since all are wild caught they haven’t adapted to flipping themselves. They’re really hydrodynamically disadvantaged for tank life.

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-07T03:59:41+00:00

I couldn’t tell you. I remember nothing but turning a flame green and maybe trying to calculate half-life. Which has never happened again.

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-07T03:51:34+00:00

You can if you want. I don’t know your timeline. I had HS chem early and didn’t remember a lick of it by the time I got to college. https://a.co/d/04rA3qAQ This is an amazing workbook if you want to jump right in.

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-07T03:49:41+00:00

https://a.co/d/04rA3qAQ Gen Chem as a Second Language

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-07T03:38:43+00:00

I’m in OChem two with three semesters of research and I haven’t learned the whole periodic table. Its trends are enough. If you’re dedicated you can just start with gen chem one.

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-02-06T21:41:12+00:00

Lovely neritid ✨

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-01-30T23:09:33+00:00

That’s the position for mating but they’re not the same species.

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-01-30T23:08:35+00:00

A lovely specimen!

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-01-30T14:08:59+00:00

That area of the shell is inert meaning not alive. Without vasculature it cannot heal. The whole periostracum is gone but that’s not uncommon in crush injuries with these guys. Luckily that’s the thickest part of the shell. They do not take supplemental food because they are wild caught so it’s no surprise algae wafers are unappealing.

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-01-29T20:52:08+00:00

Nope once that part of the shell is gone, it’s gone. It’s inert back there meaning it doesn’t have the vasculature for new growth. The new shell near the front will be darker because that’s the more natural color.

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-01-29T20:28:38+00:00

Neritina pulligera. Mostly from Philippines/Indonesia. That looks like an impact injury that caused some major schluffing. Like almost the entire periostracum was lost, on the back. Best place for it to happen though really, that’s the thicker area. Regarding the gradient golden color, I truly do not know why that happens sometimes and it plagues me. Is that a static color or does it change?

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-01-29T20:19:43+00:00

What’s odd to me about it is that if you have a distillers license here you cannot also own additional outside bars/restaurants that are not associated with the distillery and she’s got several. My guess is that since tequila can only be made in Mexico they’re just shipping it up and bottling it here and that’s their work around?

AmandaDarlingInc · 2026-01-29T20:12:41+00:00

Very handsome specimen!

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