I picked up 2 of these snails at the Catfish Convention auction back in October and then 3 more during one of the recent monthly meeting mini-auctions. These snails are true aquatic plant eaters, I have been feeding mine vallisneria cutting and excess floating plants from other tanks. After the introduction of the additional snails and a heater swap in their tank, eggs were laid on the base of the new heater yesterday:
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Are there any plants that they don't feed on?
These guys have laid multiple batches of eggs now and there are at least 3 groups of juveniles growing out: