Snail sneezing?

[lefty]

Hello all. I am very new to this hobby, but so far really enjoying it. I have a 65g tank with 13 snails in it. My rock I bought dry and have been going through the cycle. I added the snails about 4 weeks into the cycle to take care of the diatom overgrowth. I was watching my snails and one of them was standing straight up and looked like it sneezed. I watched it do this roughly 5 times. It looked like a bunch of little green eggs. My question I guess is are these eggs or is it something completely different? I also noticed today that I have these white dots showing up on my glass, not sure what those are either. Thanks for the help in advance.

Dan.

 

[ReeferBean]

The dots could be snail eggs, and well the sneaze, think birds and bees.

 

[Dalmatia]

For snails in water, the snail often just sends the sperm cells into the water, and they swim to the eggs in other snails.

 

[lefty]

That is kind of what I thought. Wasn't 100% sure though.

 

[Tahoe61]

It's referred to as broadcast-spawning, both egg and sperm are released into the water, fertilization takes place in the absence of a snail, externally.

 

[lefty]

Thanks for the help. It was pretty cool to see it happening.