Any idea what these are?

[Canadia_eh]

I'm finding more and more white dots on my tank walls

I think it's left by the snails overnight as they clean the algae but I have no idea

I also think I found a baby snail....are these dots eggs? Poop? Mineral deposits?

Should I clean them or leave them?

Thanks all!

 

[Hawkeye]

first pic are nerite snail eggs.
second pic is a limpet snail
the rest of the pics are spirobid worms. totally harmless - but if you get enough, might look like your tank is snowing all the time. Ha ha ha.

 

[Hawkeye]

an algae scrapper can easily whack em all.

 

[Canadia_eh]

first pic are nerite snail eggs.
second pic is a limpet snail
the rest of the pics are spirobid worms. totally harmless - but if you get enough, might look like your tank is snowing all the time. Ha ha ha.

Thanks !

Wow seems like it's snowing already. Tank is only a few months old and now there are pods all over the place...maybe I should stop playing Marvin Gaye on loop when I leave my place.

 

[Canadia_eh]

Should I scrape the worms? Leave the snails I guess?


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[Hawkeye]

i would scrape them all. There is no way the snails will be able to successfully reproduce. the only ones I've ever seen do that are those limpets - and they just magically appear whenever they feel like....like a bad case of indigestion. HA!

 

[redfishbluefish]

I think you have a couple things going on there. The first picture is not close enough to say what you have there. The second pic, I'm guessing a baby stomatella....a good thing. The rest of your pictures....the small spiral things, I'm guessing spirorbid worms...harmless filter feeders.