Did my clowns lay eggs?

[Octoberfest]

I have a pair of clown fish that have been acting VERY wierd lately. They have been hanging out around my RIO powerhead lately and doing this shutter or vibrating thing then just swimming around. Well today they looked to be going nuts and I got closer to see what was going on. I could see the bigger one(female) kept pushing her bottom side against the pump and after a couple times of this the male (smaller one) would come over and vibrate over the top of them (I'm assumming fertilizing them).

Now I could be way off on all of this but it's what it looked like to me. You can see in the pictures what it looks like now. It looked like the male was trying to pick at them right before I went to work but I watched close and the ones he put his mouth on never came off the pump but who knows.

Now if I'm right and they did lay eggs is there anything I can do or is it pretty much a lost cause to try and get the babies to hatch and all that?

Here's the pictures and even a short video of what was going on.

video link
http://media.putfile.com/clowns-39

 

[Blown 346]

They could be eggs, but I cant be positive since I have never seen them. It sounds like it.

 

[Fmellish]

I've got some great news!

You don't have to feed your shrimp tommorow.

 

[bertoni]

Looks like eggs to me. Raising them is a lot of work. If you want to try, Joyce Wilkerson's book on clownfish is a good resource, and the clownfish forum likely has some notes as well. So does the breeders forum.

 

[erm.chan]

that's amazing! but what an odd place for eggs!

 

[timmyus]

WOW even if trying to raise is a lost cause to some I would definitely try. You never know imagine the feeling if you do get it right to hatch and raise them babie. GOODLUCK TO YOU

 

[ohioreef]

Yup, eggs!! My pair started laying several months ago, sporatically at first, but they're on a pretty tight schedule now!