Breeding Journal, Species: Stomatella Varia

General
Species:  Stomatella Varia
Social Structure:  "mob"
Size of Individuals: 1 inch 
Age of Individuals:  unknown
Date added to Tank:  June 2011

Broodstock Tank Details
Size of Tank:  30 gallons of a 120 gallon system
Substrate Details:  bare bottom
Filtration Details:  filter sock, deep sand bed, macro algae, live rock, skimmer, bio-pellets
Water Changes:  30% weekly
Water Temperature: 78.9
Lighting:  vho
Lighting Cycle:  lights on at 9:30pm lights of at 10:30pm
Other Tank Inhabitants:  juvenile ocellaris clowns, juvenile banggai cardinals, juvenile percula clowns

Broodstock Feeding Details
Food Types:  algae that grows in the tank
Feeding Schedule:  constant

Spawning Details
Date of First Spawn:  first date witnessed 10/11/11
Spawn Time of Day:  early morning approx~ 9:40am
Dates of Consecutive Spawns:  unknown
Courtship Details:  none
Egg Size:  very small- like brine shrimp eggs
Egg Color:  dark
Egg Count:  thousands

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I was feeding my juvenile clowns this morning and I noticed what I thought was micro bubbles. checked the water level of the tank thinking the float vavle got stuck on a rock again. Water level was fine. I looked back into the tank and noticed one of my snails standing up. ???

I watched and it was releasing eggs into the water column! looked at a few more and there was a male releasing sperm into the water column! My snails are spawning!! I grabbed my phone and took acouple videos. sorry if the videos are bad, but i'ts what I had within reach. In this (crappy) video just below the banggai cardinal is a female snail releasing eggs upwords and to the right in the rocks you can see a puff of sperm every now and again. I then switch over to another snail and see the releasing of eggs and then I found a male on the front panel of the tank releasing sperm. It was really neat to watch everything this morning.

that's awesome!!! I would love to catch mine in the act! Way to go!!!!

RLTW

180 Gallon Mixed Reef

Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I. Send me!" Isaiah 6:8

Science geek me went and grabed a vial and a baster and caught some of the gametes and will look at them under a scope after I get out of work.

Here's a video of one of the fertilized eggs that I collected earlier.11 hours after fertilization. Neat and creepy at the same time.