* Can I just remove all the eggs and place in a jar or something with some
plants. Will it hatch in that way?

No. You can scrape the eggs off carefully with a razor blade. But if you put
them in water, the embryos will drown. And if they aren't near water, they'll
dry out. There's a reason the mother snail lays them above the water line.

Instead, get a gallon jar, fill it partway with water, and suspend the eggs
above the water. Use a piece of netting, such as onions are sold in. Secure
it with a rubber band. You want the baby snails to be able to drop through the
netting into the water when they hatch. Then put a piece of plastic wrap over
the top of the jar and netting, to keep the eggs from drying out.

The babies can be raised in the jar for awhile, until they get too big.
They'll eat the same things their parents eat.

* How many days will it take to hatch?

Two weeks or so. If they haven't hatched in two weeks, you can help them alone
by gently breaking the eggs open with your fingers. Sometimes the eggs dry out
and get so hard the baby snails can't break out on their own.

* How may will survive?

Depends on how well you care for them. :-)

Fifty or a hundred isn't unusual.


Leigh

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