Astrea snail

[jdpeters]

im watching my astrea snail is sitting near a torch coral and is repeatedly spitting out a cloudy liquid out of a tube. Anyone ever encounter this before?

 

[MTBake]

Yep. It's spawning

I had 8 or so do that all at once. My tank looked like milk till morning. No negative affect at all.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Spawning.

 

[jdpeters]

That's awesome. He did it for awhile. The fish went nuts and corals reacted as well.
He's a lone snail. He was baiting his sea cucumber then lol.

 

[NS Mike D]

yup. I thought I had bacterial blooms a few times until one night I caught one in the act. clouded up my 29 gal real good. The corals were happy

 

[jdpeters]

I never really put many snails in my tank originally and down to just the one now over 3 years later. I wonder how hard it is for them to actually reproduce in a reef aquarium

 

[Oshengems]

Astreas reproduce easy in home aquarium their babies usually end up in your skimmers pump Lol or return pumps propeller lol

 

[jdpeters]

Astreas reproduce easy in home aquarium their babies usually end up in your skimmers pump Lol or return pumps propeller lol

That's what I assumed lol