What is this?

[standrd250ridr]

these white strands are all over my live rock that is shaded. Does anyone know what this is? is it good or bad? if bad how do I get rid of it? also I am battling hair algae right now(all water parameters are perfect) could this have anything to do with it?

 

[TRIP23]

Not sure about the white strands....What do you have for a clean up crew

 

[J. Montgomery]

Snail eggs

cerinth snails, maybe?

 

[standrd250ridr]

For cleanup I have about 100 total of the following:

cerinth snails
turbo snails
red leg and blue leg hermit crabs
2 emerald crabs

 

[standrd250ridr]

Are snail eggs a good thing? I didn't know they would breed in captivity.

 

[skippy2]

The eggs will probably get eaten. Nothing to worry about

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13801840#post13801840 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by standrd250ridr
Are snail eggs a good thing? I didn't know they would breed in captivity.

only ones i have heard that will viably breed in captivity are cerith and stomella...but they will all lay eggs like that...as mentioned most get eaten by pods and fish and crabs...

 

[standrd250ridr]

What about the rock in the bottom picture? Most of the live rock has these white strands on it. Are these also eggs or some type of worm? They seem to have been there for a while.

 

[davidryder]

looks like a tubeworm...

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

yeah those annoying mini feather duster things..LOL, those will go up and down in population with available nutrients...

 

[Jsteere301]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13802013#post13802013 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by skippy2
The eggs will probably get eaten. Nothing to worry about

+1 Check melevs site ( I think thats where I saw em, dead on same thing, pretty cool but they be dinner..)

 

[loof the doof]

look like a kind of spagetti worm to me, a 6 line will take care of them if you dont like them

 

[davidryder]

Those white lines in the first pic are not snail eggs. Snail eggs are solitary dots. Those are trails formed by probably some sort of tube worm.

 

[NanoReefWanabe]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=13830816#post13830816 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by davidryder
Those white lines in the first pic are not snail eggs. Snail eggs are solitary dots. Those are trails formed by probably some sort of tube worm.

they are fertilized egg clusters, given time and conditions they would hatch...

a marco shot would certainly show the individual eggs in the string...my cerith snails do this to he glass about once a month...

 

[buzzard one]

Looks like some type of eggs.

 

[buttons buster]

I really don't think they are eggs I could be wrong though.

It looks more of like a tube worm or something.

If you could get even more detailed pictures that would make it much easier to identify it

 

[pagojoe]

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=cerith eggs&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi