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Despite the information I have found and what people have advised...the eggs seem to be forming babies inside? I can see the shells too...

I picked 4 of them up from a breeder I know. Anyways, the female has had 2 clusters so far that have hatched and are seperated. She birthed her third cluster on Saturday and it rests safely with the other VERY SMALL (1mm) babies. If you guys would like, I will keep you updated on how long it takes them to grow to a decent size. I have been recording all of my information because I would like to begin experimenting with breeding more snails. I'm so excited my first attempt was a success!

Yes, where did you get them???

They are still quite rare here in the US. I'll buy some off you!!

Lucky for you, Spixi's stay much smaller, and grow more slowly than Poms.

Actually, I was thinking about doing that exact thing .

Where did you ever find those? Stick them up on aquabid or similar and you might make a fair amount of cash.

When I get some more tanks, I'll be ok . For now I keep a close eye on them. I am surprised she's laid that many!

sounds like you are well on your way to be overrun with snails

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Did a bit more research, it appears they are Asolene Spixi babies. And I watched her again closely tonight as she birthed another cluster full of troops!

And guess what...they hatched today, Saturday March. 26th !

I have a 10 gallon with live plants and only TWO Mystery Snails along with some other snails and shrimp. In one of my real nice, thick plants I noticed two sets of eggs Sunday night. My first assumption is that it was eggs of one of my Mystery Snails. I also came to this conclusion becuase every once in a while I would see the larger Mystery Snail COMPLETELY wrap around the other Mystery Snail and put what looked to be something like a long nose down into the other Mystery Snail's shell. Are these eggs of the Mystery Snails? Am I lucky enough to just randomly pick out two snails that just happen to be male and female and be mature enough to reproduce? How long will it take for the eggs to hatch (my average tank temperature is 78-80 degrees)? If so, how many of those eggs/babies are likely to survive?

I'm prepared to deal with the snails. They will also be upgraded to a planted 20 gallon long here in a little while. For now, I lowered the water level in tha 10 gallon about 1.5"s to see what happens...thanks for all your help everyone!

LOL. There will be more! If they've laid once, they're happy enough with their tank, and will lay again. It sounds as though you have two Brigs. The orange body spots give it away. There are two body colors, dark and light, which are the same species. Just be warned, if you let the clutches hatch, you'll end up with 100 snails, which you'll then have to take care of. They're very cute, but it can become kinda daunting!

Damn, if only I knew they were trying to breed ahead of time...I would've loved some babies.

If your eggs look like the clutch in the pic toward the bottom and they are underwater then they are dead. They must stay above water (but moist) until they hatch. Often times a female will knock a clutch down while looking for a place to lay another. You can remove clutches and float them on a sponge in a bowl of water to hatch them if the eggs won't stay on the glass. Also dropping the water level down 3-4inches will encourage them to lay lots of clutches throughout the tank. The only common applesnail that lays eggs underwater is the marisa or giant ramshorn which has a flat spiral shell. I would remove the clutch before it starts to rot in your tank.

http://www.applesnail.net/content/species/pomacea_bridgesi.htm

That is definitely them from the description and pictures. But, my only concern is I see no snails with submerged eggs ...are my poor little troops already dead being that they are submerged?

the only way to tell for sure 100% what snails you have is to compare the color and shape of the eggs to the examples given from applesnail.net. each species of snail has different color eggs as well as different ways they lay them. this is the only surefire way to know what kind of snails you might have

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I will post more later, but here's what I found they most resemble on the website you posted.

http://www.applesnail.net/content/photographs/pomacea_brid_collection1.jpg

They both have the ivory/white shell. But, the pigment of what I believe to be the male is albino with small, bright colored orange spots along its body and what I believe to be the female, has a black pigment with the same small, bright colored orange spots.

What you describe sounds just like snail mating. But, without knowing what species of snail you have, I won't be able to tell you who the eggs belong to. Check out www.applesnail.net and see if you see a snail like you have.
"Mystery snail" generally refers to Pomacea Bridgesii or Canaliculata, which lay a pink clutch of eggs ABOVE the water line. If you saw clear eggs underwater, they're from a physid (pest/pond snail), plarbid (small ramshorn) or marisa (Giant Colombian Ramshorn).