Pink Ramshorn Snail Eggs Developing and Hatching

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @andisaidhey9088
    @andisaidhey9088 2 года назад +4

    My favorite planted aquarium video! I've seen these little babies for years, but not this close up. Thank you for the video!

  • @janicelefever2918
    @janicelefever2918 2 года назад +3

    Life on earth is so amazing. Thank you for bringing a portal right to my desk.

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад +2

      My pleasure. I'm endlessly fascinated by all the plants and animals that we share this planet with. Yes, life is amazing!!! You seem to have a similar view. 😊

  • @RenGoneMad
    @RenGoneMad 2 года назад +3

    Absolutely love your work, as always! Gastropods are a special interest of mine (I'm in the process of attaining my degree in biology right now, hoping to study them in the future), and while I own several different species of aquatic snail including pink ramshorn, I don't have the tools at my disposal to witness their development in this way. This was absolutely eye-opening and just furthers my interest in these tiny, fascinating critters. You truly open a new world to people and show us new perspectives we never could have expected. Thank you!

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад

      You're very welcome. Thank you so much for watching the video, and I'm so happy that its furthered your interest in gastropods!!! Snails are my favorite subjects to film. . . What I found most amazing was the fact that the embryos have cilia and are able to move around. I don't remember if I mentioned it in the video, but the baby snails were able to lay eggs when they were just 16 days old!! Amazing. 😊

  • @petecross9470
    @petecross9470 2 года назад +1

    It's almost as if we were meant to be able to view and marvel at the development of these "simple" creatures! Thanks to your patience,, skill, knowledge and excellent optics, we are able to enjoy this awesome process in a way unachievable by most of us. Thank you!

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад

      You're very welcome. It's nice to have a little window into their world. 😊

  • @tamarrajames3590
    @tamarrajames3590 2 года назад +3

    Dave, you consistently produce some of the most beautiful images ever. I love how you display portions of the microcosm with such clarity…it is like looking at jewels lit from behind. Your work always caries an emotional impact…assisted by your choices in music. All the superlatives and many thanks.🖤🇨🇦

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад +1

      Thank you once again for your kind words and encouragement. 🐟 💕🐟

    • @tamarrajames3590
      @tamarrajames3590 2 года назад +1

      @@TheDave333 Thank you for brightening my day with the snail eggs.😘🖤🇨🇦

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад +1

      My pleasure 😊

  • @camille4917
    @camille4917 6 месяцев назад +3

    Was accidentally introduced to ramshorn snails when I put a plant in my tank. Can't say im angry - I love watching them investigate the tank! Your video is awesome! I tried to take a picture of my teeny tiny snails but just ended up with a brown smudge on the picture. Loved watching the video - you are highly underrated!

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  6 месяцев назад +2

      Thank you so much for watching the video. Ram's horn snails always seem to find a way to hitch a ride into people's tanks.

    • @blessedbeauty2293
      @blessedbeauty2293 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@TheDave333 - Ain't that the truth 😅.

  • @kalyansai4739
    @kalyansai4739 2 года назад +2

    I once made a closed jar ecosystem with pink ramshorn snails as inhabitants and foxtail plants. I saw the eggs for the first time and It was such a beautiful experience to watch them grow from the eggs and hatch out. Even though these are just snails. It was such a pleasent experience. It was then that i stopped looking at them as pest snails.
    Got to learn more about them from this video. Always enjoy watching and learning from your videos ❤️

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад +1

      Thank you so much. I love snails, and I love closed jar ecosystems. I highly recommend using a magnifying glass to see all of the interesting little creatures that appear out of nowhere. Thanks again for watching the video and taking the time to leave a comment. 😊

  • @Possumbreath
    @Possumbreath 2 года назад +1

    I don't know why but the bright red finger pointing with the single word 'nematode' made me laugh out loud. Fascinating as always, great work!

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад

      Thanks, glad I could make you laugh. . .

  • @dominiqueperrin4257
    @dominiqueperrin4257 2 года назад +1

    Wow .. fascinating as always 😮 their reproduction is so easy and fast that I have many in my tanks , but I have never seen them so close 👍 thank you 🙏

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад +1

      You're very welcome, and thank you for your continued support.

  • @Youtube-Censorship-Police
    @Youtube-Censorship-Police 6 месяцев назад +2

    great filming and commentary, really enjoyed it!

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  6 месяцев назад

      Thank you so much.

  • @andrewgoldfish
    @andrewgoldfish 6 месяцев назад +2

    Wow spectacular job filming these snails. ❤

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  6 месяцев назад

      Thank you very much!

  • @bear1830
    @bear1830 2 года назад +2

    The world is saved and Dave is the champion

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад +1

      I'm just a guy with a camera and love of nature. . . 😊

    • @jcjcj.
      @jcjcj. 2 года назад +1

      @@TheDave333 speaking of, what camera is that?

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад

      @Jcjcj There's a link to the camera model in the video description section.

  • @audrameyer9558
    @audrameyer9558 2 года назад +2

    That was fascinating! I know they are there, but actually seeing the worms gives me the willies!!!! 😳

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад +1

      You might have a touch of vermiphobia. . . They are very bizarre, so it's understandable. 😊

  • @Vecitit
    @Vecitit 2 года назад +3

    love ur videos keep the good work up and uploading This is why i get suprised when u upload becuase i love ur channel!!!!

  • @finefelinegirl
    @finefelinegirl Год назад

    Your amazing work is total nerd catnip! Thank you for creating these amazing, gorgeous videos!

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  Год назад

      You're very welcome! Thanks for watching them and taking the time to leave a comment. ♥♥♥

  • @jeidun
    @jeidun 2 года назад

    i love your work! the camera work is so *chefs kiss*
    your narration is so nice, I've been watching ever since your bichir vid, which is so informative!
    hope ur channel blows up soon man, you deserve it!

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад

      Thank you so much. It's a labor of love. 🐟 🐟 🐟

  • @ella-and-her-cup-of-coffee
    @ella-and-her-cup-of-coffee Год назад

    This was so interesting! Thank you for taking the time to share your video. I especially liked the dramatic music 😄

  • @middeh
    @middeh 8 месяцев назад +2

    this is just beautiful. thank you.

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  8 месяцев назад +1

      You're very welcome.

  • @PaulsFishroom
    @PaulsFishroom 2 года назад +1

    Wow (as usual) 🤓👍. Very educational and terrific photography…

  • @_invertico_
    @_invertico_ 2 года назад +2

    Awesome video mate, keep up the work mate!

  • @Mianna10
    @Mianna10 Год назад +4

    i got my ramshorn snails last sunday they laid eggs already so im watching to see

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  Год назад

      A good magnifying glass helps.

    • @Mianna10
      @Mianna10 Год назад +1

      thanks for telling me its gonna take longer for mine since i have cold water@@TheDave333

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  Год назад +1

      Yes, a lot depends on water temp.

    • @Mianna10
      @Mianna10 Год назад +2

      its day 5 and i can slowley see them moving i have my tortoise in the same room and he has a heating lamp

  • @blessedbeauty2293
    @blessedbeauty2293 2 месяца назад +2

    - At 1:34 && before, what are those little parasite looking organisms? 🤔

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 месяца назад

      I believe those are non-parasitic flatworms called Rhabdocoela.

  • @incominghitdadirt9587
    @incominghitdadirt9587 2 года назад +2

    Thanks! I have these snails too and other snails. I have seen the eggs on the glass but wasn't sure who put them there.
    Do they mostly hatch at night? I've never been able to notice them hatching, but i also don't have the power of magnification.

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад

      They hatch whenever they're ready, day or night. I think they lay the eggs at night though. I was hoping to film it.

  • @moonpleco5083
    @moonpleco5083 Год назад +3

    Thanks for sharing fantastic footage of snails,🐌 development from few cells in eggs. Your Panasonic camera, you mentioned that is modified for macro close ups - has it added external macro lens or have you make changes inside lenses array?

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  Год назад

      I have modified a couple macro lenses, so they fit the camera. No changes were made to the camera. Unfortunately, they don't make that model anymore.

    • @moonpleco5083
      @moonpleco5083 Год назад +1

      ​@@TheDave333 thank you. I wanted to buy this Panasonic model in the past, it seemed a bit expensive but I considered this. I ended with Sony handycam HDR cx450, it's not so bad camera but... It have some pros and more cons. Today I regret my decision to save not so much money 🤣🤣.
      Then for macro l need lense or macro converter. But first l do research what to buy for filming gecko during the night.

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  Год назад

      Filming geckos at night will be difficult. A red light might help, because many animals are not bothered by red light. By the way, the quality of my work comes mostly from the huge amount of time that I spend filming each animal, and not from the type of camera that I use. Time, patience, and attention to details are all way more important than the type of camera that you use. ❤

  • @elenachiselita5950
    @elenachiselita5950 Год назад +5

    So are this worms are normal for the aquarium? I have them tons in my snail aquarium and I don’t know how to kill them. Do I have to get rid of them? I grow snails to feed my puffer fish, but don’t want to introduce any worms in to fish tank

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  Год назад +3

      The worms are a normal part of the aquatic life in an aquarium, there no need to kill them. Pea puffers will eat them too. You can reduce their numbers if they bother you by keeping the aquarium as clean as you can, but I wouldn't bother. They're harmless.

  • @gohstleviathanyt9859
    @gohstleviathanyt9859 2 года назад +2

    Very high quality

  • @chisaquaticvibe6524
    @chisaquaticvibe6524 2 года назад +3

    Wow! Cool!

  • @NyteFlyer
    @NyteFlyer 2 года назад +2

    I really enjoy your videos, what is the approximate diameter of the egg case?

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад +1

      About 1/4 inch or just over 6 millimeters. Smaller snails produce smaller egg cases.

  • @cyberpickle2925
    @cyberpickle2925 10 месяцев назад +1

    beautiful!!!

  • @stuwaha
    @stuwaha 2 года назад

    Thank you for another captivating and informative video :)

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад

      I so happy that you enjoyed the video. It was a fun one to put together :-)

  • @thebackyardbear
    @thebackyardbear 8 месяцев назад +2

    Prolific little buggers... I got 7 with shrimp I ordered. Sold and shipped a half million within 3 years.

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  8 месяцев назад

      It sounds like you have some happy snails!

    • @thebackyardbear
      @thebackyardbear 8 месяцев назад

      @@TheDave333 I can't speak for the snails... but I have certainly been happy to have them. The foundation of my hobby/business. People call them pests... I call them my best friends.

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  8 месяцев назад

      They're certainly easy enough to breed. Are you making a decent profit?

  • @Giftig--Daniel-P
    @Giftig--Daniel-P Год назад +1

    I have about 6 eggcases or eggsacks around my aquarium, 2 have hatched. I watched the teeny snails making their way slowly out. But they were disappearing faster than I thought they could move. I have a few cory cats, a bn pleco, ember tetras, red cherry shrimp, some white cloud minnows and a redtail shark. Think the babies were being eaten or was I just not watching closely enough?
    Also how on earth did you capture such amazing detailed microscopic footage? I spent over an hour total with two magnifying glasses today trying to see a fraction of the detail you captured.

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  Год назад +1

      Newborn ram's horn snails have soft shells and are sometimes eaten by fish. Still, you'll soon have more snails than you know what to do with. 😁 I have special macro lenses that help me capture very small details.

    • @Giftig--Daniel-P
      @Giftig--Daniel-P Год назад +2

      @@TheDave333 could you link me the lens? My brother is a photographer, he'd like to check it out.

  • @emmelhsa-ms
    @emmelhsa-ms Год назад +1

    Fascinating video!
    I know that a lot of people (at least in my country) hate those snails and would do anything to get rid of them from their aquarium. But imo they look cute and I don't mind them as long as they don't grow the size of a plague... Do you know when they reach sexual maturity? I found that it's around 1,5-2 months from hatching (when they around 1cm in diameter), is it true?

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  Год назад +2

      I experimented with this to see how fast I could get the babies to grow and reproduce.
      At 82 - 83 degrees F ( 27.8 - 28.3 degrees C) my baby snails were able to produce their own eggs at 16 days old! However, this is warmer than most people keep their water. Limit their food supply to help keep their numbers in control.

  • @Raua12
    @Raua12 11 месяцев назад +1

    Amazing video! This means those tiny pink worms are not the baby snails from the billion egg clusters tho... I wonder what they are (and where all the baby snail went).

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  11 месяцев назад

      Thanks for watching the video! There are many mysteries to solve.

    • @Raua12
      @Raua12 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@TheDave333 I took a photo and saw the eyespots of doom! It's weirdly pink planaria D: Gonna make a trap before they become too many. Guess I know what happened to the baby snails tho haha

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  11 месяцев назад

      I guess so, best of luck.

  • @voluntaryismistheanswer
    @voluntaryismistheanswer 2 года назад +1

    I had an explosion recently in a fallow tank, I will be gentler removing and relocating the tiny fellows today.

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад

      Yes, snails have feelings too. :-)

    • @Greenhenben678
      @Greenhenben678 Год назад

      but mine are not pink they are ugly

  • @Sea-cucumber1151
    @Sea-cucumber1151 11 месяцев назад +2

    Wow, make it a little harder to pop these things!❤ seeing a beating heart! 😭

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  11 месяцев назад +1

      No worries, they'll make more. 😁

    • @Sea-cucumber1151
      @Sea-cucumber1151 10 месяцев назад

      @@TheDave333that they do. It’s also pretty wild they have hemoglobin like us, why you see red blood when a bigger one gets its shell cracked. Don’t get me wrong I have squished some of the tiny ones, or pop the eggs thankfully can’t see those beating hearts. I don’t think I could though if blood poured out of the egg sacks. lol.
      ….But my heart does weep a little when I accidentally drop a bigger one or something and I see bright red blood pour out. Then I think should I just drop it in the garbage disposal, a quick death, or crush it, or let it be? All the thoughts….lol the struggle, sometimes when they do spill a little blood they seem to recover or so it appears! lol
      ignorance is bliss when you don’t see any blood or beating hearts! 😂 I do end up collecting them and giving them to my sister after a while to put in her betta and goldfish tanks, some survive and some don’t..😢😂. Though I could make a small buck in the amount of gorgeous red, orange, pink and recently white rams-horn I have since I have culled any other color long ago. Occasionally some dark color will pop up but they get put in the scud tank or be shared.

    • @voiceofreason6686
      @voiceofreason6686 9 месяцев назад

      @@Sea-cucumber1151 Have you considered selling them? I assumed they'd be cheap to buy, but people are charging high prices where I live. 5 UK common brown/black Ramshorn adults on amazon- £18.99/$24.17 + postage. My local pond has been fully covered in algae for 3 years. I wondered why. Guess I don't have to wonder anymore. A volunteer human 'clean up crew' would come to the pond twice a year (with nets), until 3 years ago. They were cleaning up in more ways than one.

  • @ugarit5
    @ugarit5 2 года назад +2

    You can use IR light to film nocturnal species without deranging them

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад +1

      Very true. Great suggestion thank you. 😊

  • @chisaquaticvibe6524
    @chisaquaticvibe6524 Год назад +1

    Have you heard of a blanket octopus/Tremoctopus violaceus?

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  Год назад

      I've never heard of those before, but I'm sure I'd love them.

  • @emmanuel4059
    @emmanuel4059 2 года назад +1

    Nice!

  • @ChrisT-O
    @ChrisT-O Год назад

    Fascinating video

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  Год назад

      Thanks - fascinating snails!

  • @freakmoister
    @freakmoister 9 месяцев назад +2

    Can 1 ram shell snail breed in its own??

  • @SalamanderFangskin
    @SalamanderFangskin 2 года назад +2

    Are those worms predators?

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад +1

      Not that I'm aware of. I think they're just scavengers. The small white ones are rhabdocoelas. There were no planaria or detritus worms.

    • @SalamanderFangskin
      @SalamanderFangskin 2 года назад +1

      @@TheDave333 thank you! :)

  • @GT_Racer347
    @GT_Racer347 11 месяцев назад +1

    Good times 👌

  • @Jazz-jn7dq
    @Jazz-jn7dq Год назад +1

    Nice

  • @deathsalomon795
    @deathsalomon795 Год назад +2

    I found at least 30 egg clusters in my tanks 😅😅😅 that will be many many babies

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  Год назад +2

      Yes it will, and the population will continue to grow as long as there's enough food.

  • @Giftig--Daniel-P
    @Giftig--Daniel-P Год назад

    Can you get a Malaysian Trumpet Snail giving birth? I've searched and searched.

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  Год назад +2

      I'd love to catch that live birth on film, and someday I will.😁

  • @serjiviejoven9594
    @serjiviejoven9594 2 года назад

    Awesome Video!!! Why I can't give 1 mio likes

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад

      I wish you could give a million likes ! Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave a comment.

  • @ngc7320A
    @ngc7320A 2 года назад +2

    The smaller "worms" look like gastrotrichs to me.

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад

      Maybe. . . I'm getting a microscope one of these days. . .

  • @Greenhenben678
    @Greenhenben678 2 года назад +5

    i have more worms

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад +2

      Worms are good. . . Showoff !!!

    • @Greenhenben678
      @Greenhenben678 2 года назад +1

      🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🦠🐟🐟🦐🦐also my guppys eat the worms😳😳😳😳😳😳

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад

      Guppies love worms. . .

  • @tomneeb5474
    @tomneeb5474 2 года назад +1

    Fascinating!

  • @nicksweeney5176
    @nicksweeney5176 2 года назад

    Firrrrst...!!!

    • @TheDave333
      @TheDave333  2 года назад +1

      Thanks Nick Sweeney... 🐟🐟🐟