Okay...who did this on my glass?

[NanoReefWanabe]

someone was kinda enough to let me know they were fooling around in my tank...though this is the first time i have seen it like this...any body know who left this behind?

right in the corner of the tank...

in habitants are as follows....as far as i know anyway...

1 Coral banded shrimp (wish it were from him)
1 black brittle star (probably not from him)
1 6line wrasse (not likely from this guy)
1 green chromis (pretty sure it isnt from him)
2 false percula clowns ( i know it isnt these guys)
some asternia stars...mostly in the sump
1 pistol or mantis shrimp (not sure as he has been very ellusive)

4 blue legged hermits
2 maragrita snails
2 trochus snails
1 turbo (that would be neat)
6 nassarius snails ( i know it isnt from these guys...i have seen there egg sacs before)
1 cerith (LOL that would be neat too...)
3 tongan cerith snails
2 astrea snails

pretty sure it is snail droppings though...just which kind...and will they make it? CBS cant get to them...and the Wrasse dosent seem to have seen them yet..

 

[kmk2307]

Do a search for pictures of cerith snail eggs. The strands of eggs I have seen before look somewhat different but that's most likely what they are. It's a diverse family of snails. The larvae are free-swimming and slow to develop so it is doubtful you will have any recruit in your tank, again assuming that's what they are.

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

yeah that is what they look like to me too..

too bad i have thousands of those decopods on my glass. and the site i checked out said that they will eat all the eggs....oh well...maybe some will live..

 

[davidandliz]

yeah they are definately snail eggs.

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11951883#post11951883 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by davidandliz
yeah they are definately snail eggs.

Hehehe....yeah i knew that...i just wasnt sure which snails did it...

 

[kmk2307]

NanoReefWanabe,

Do you mean decapods or amphipods? Decapods are shrimp, crabs, lobsters, etc. (I'm not trying to be the taxonomy police but I thought I would point that out ) Do they seem to eat your snail eggs?

Kevin

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11955049#post11955049 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by kmk2307
NanoReefWanabe,

Do you mean decapods or amphipods? Decapods are shrimp, crabs, lobsters, etc. (I'm not trying to be the taxonomy police but I thought I would point that out ) Do they seem to eat your snail eggs?

Kevin

hmmm...honestly not sure...the site i was reading...said decapods...and he had a pic of them on the glass...just like mine...just little tiny pods of some sort...and by tiny i mean tiny.. 1mm x .5mm or smaller...

i will try to find the link again...

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

here is the link to them....they mention decapods in the last pic on the page...
cerith snail egg page, as found on google

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

well...eggs are completely gone as of today...someone had a good lunch...

 

[lloydkeller]

snail eggs ive never had any hatch allways ended up eaten