What kind of eggs are these?If they are.

[westin]

 

[818]

Woah! They look like clownfish eggs, but I dont think they lay that many! Anyway some sweet, nutritous treats for your fish!

 

[NicoleC]

Too small for clown eggs, I think, although there's no perspective in the photo to really tell the size. Do you have a picture in sharp focus? Tank inhabitants? When did they appear? Any animals hanging around the eggs?

 

[westin]

different pic of eggs

different pic of eggs

Some times there is a bunch of tenticles in side of the sack that holds the eggs together. This is the second time this has happened. Its always close to the sand bed.

 

[NicoleC]

Still can't see the eggs very well. Current tank inhabitants?

 

[westin]

Thats about close as it gets. The eggs are the little red dots I think. kept in the sack thing. I have
hermits
naussaris snails
turbo snail works good for the red turf algae
astrea snails
brittle star
BTA
Ocellaris clowns
diamond goby
tons of pods(all kinds)
corals
there is something happening in the tank. I had hundreds of these little shrimps swam in the tank last night and last month there is a bunch of snails in my refuge. They are a little bigger now and look like turbo snails. A curled shell with stripes.

 

[29reef]

turbo sp. snails broadcast spawn as far as i know so the snails are out, my guess would be a fish but i have really no idea.

First thing that comes to mind when i see it is sponge

 

[NicoleC]

Yes, there's something happening in your tank -- it's maturing! The little shrimps were probably mysid shrimp larvae. Maybe hermit crab larvae. The mysids will live, the hermits will not. The little snails are probably collonista snails, a common hitchhiker. They are related to turbos, but don't get over 1/4" and are nocturnal.

Okay, the eggs are not hermit crab eggs (no eggs), not astrae or turbo (planktonic larvae). Definately not brittle star. BTA's can spawn, but they broadcast eggs into the water. Pods are also planktonic.

Diamond gobies have an egg mass, not a layer of eggs. Clowns carefully tend their eggs, and while an egg mass that size is not unknown for ocellaris, they'd be large, mature spawners before you'd see a nest that size.

Honestly, it looks like a sponge to me. But you said this is the second time. It *could* be nassarius eggs, but they usually lay on the glass. But that rock is a nice flat surface... might be a tempting spot. In rare cases, nassarius larvae have managed to reproduce in aquariums, but typically the larvae get eaten.

 

[westin]

Thanks for the input.