And here’s the captured snail

… that I think belongs to the eggs (or vice versa). It looks like a tadpole snail (Physa), about 2-3 mm:

I put her and the leaf w/ eggs in the nano tank. I was afraid she’d run out of oxygen in the jam jar. Here she’s on her way to the surface to get some air:

Takin’ a deeeeep breath.

Happily munching away.

Here’s a better picture of the eggs:

It’s easier to photograph in the tank than in the jam jar. ;o)

A view of the nano tank after replacing the twisted with the straight Val:

If you look closely, you can see a speck on the glass; that’s the snail heading back down after her breather.