ID this please

[kelley_mc]

Anyone know what this is?

Right now it is sitting on my bubble difuser on my skimmer and I can get to it easily if I should remove it from my tank.

Thanks!

 

[papagimp]

wow, I do not have a single clue on this one, lol. Anybody know?
Looks like my lower intestines! I'd venture to guess either an egg sack of sorts, or possibly filiments from a nearby coral, but I doubt I'm correct on either of these.

 

[BiggySmalls]

? i have never seen that b4

 

[JamesJR]

Those could be eggs of some sort. Do you have any slugs or nudibranchs in your tank?

 

[kelley_mc]

Current tank inhabitants are:

2 Clowns
2 Peppermint shrimp
1 Brittle Star
7 Cerith Snails
4 Trochus Snails
1 Mexican Turbo Snail
5 Scarlett Hermits
1 Mithrax Crab
1 Pom Pom Crab

I think that's it, thanks for the help. I wonder if I should remove it just to be safe.

 

[papagimp]

I'd guess a snail egg. Couldn't say wich though, none of mine are breeding. Well, my stometellas do, but I don't ever see eggs.

 

[AllenFord_SC]

I'd pull it out if you aren't sure what it is. Put some water out of your tank into a container and stick that thing in the container to see what it does. If it is an egg sack, see what hatches. I've never seen anything like that.

 

[Joshua1023]

Cerith snail eggs. I've sat and watched some of mine lay those eggs. No big deal the fish will eat them from time to time.

 

[aztbs]

Those are cerith snail eggs. I have watched my ceriths laying those patterns on everything. The fish love to eat them, but they are gooey and stringy so they sometimes get on corals.

No worries!

 

[aztbs]

I am either a parrot or a slow typist, lol

 

[Joshua1023]

Well you know what they say----Great minds and all that!

 

[kelley_mc]

cool... thanks for the help!

I will just leave them. The funny thing is that they are located about a 1/4" from the glass. My fish won't be able to get to the eggs. I assume once they hatch, the fish will eat them? Or will I have a thousand cyrith snails?

 

[Joshua1023]

99.9% of them will not survive. They will be eaten by your fish, ground up by your pumps, or who knows what else. I certainly don't have an infestation and I see those eggs all the time.

 

[dippin61]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8971885#post8971885 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Joshua1023
99.9% of them will not survive. They will be eaten by your fish, ground up by your pumps, or who knows what else. I certainly don't have an infestation and I see those eggs all the time.

depending on whether or not you have sand, and what kind of livestock you have. if you have sand, they hang out in the sand most of the time, therefor you dont see them often.

however, in a tank like mine, which is BB, i see tons of them. at lights out, its almost like a sheet of them on my starboard. true most of them dont make it long, again depending on your livestock. but a lot of mine have. well, until i need siphon stuff. they flock to the little piles of detritus/rock, that accumulates on my BB. They get sucked up and out

but the collonista snails thrive in my tank.