What kind of eggs are these?If they are.

westin · 07/03/2006, 06:37 PM

reefshadow · 07/03/2006, 06:45 PM

Hmmm, weird. It's hard to tell with the pic, but they almost look like fish eggs, damsel or clown are usually an orangish colour when fresh. Do you have any pairs of these, or any other fish pairs that would explain it? Is it on a rock or what? If it is a fertilized mass of fish eggs you should start to see silver dots in each egg as they mature, the eyes of the larval fry.

fwiw, doesn't look like any nudi or snail egg mass i've ever seen.

lpkirby · 07/03/2006, 07:31 PM

What are you asking about, the greenish or orange stuff???
The greenish stuff looks like sponge...

hmmm

westin · 07/04/2006, 12:08 AM

There was one of these before I got a pair of ocellaris. The one before had little tenticles in the sack like thing. could it be a worm? there is spaghetti worms in the tank.

RicksReefs · 07/04/2006, 07:14 AM

it kinda looks like a protozoan infection. is/was there something living at the site of these 'sacks' that's gone/going?

westin · 07/04/2006, 01:06 PM

I looked at it today and it seems all the orange/red dots are gone and the sack is broken. Nothing I could see or put there was living. Maybe in the rock or under the sand? If its bad will harm the tank much?

RicksReefs · 07/04/2006, 01:24 PM

well, that does sound like an eggmass hatching. whatever it is will likely end up as food, but you never know..

07/03/2006, 06:37 PM	#1
westin Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: port hueneme CA Posts: 57	What kind of eggs are these?If they are.

07/03/2006, 06:45 PM	#2
reefshadow Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Central Washington Posts: 1,786	Hmmm, weird. It's hard to tell with the pic, but they almost look like fish eggs, damsel or clown are usually an orangish colour when fresh. Do you have any pairs of these, or any other fish pairs that would explain it? Is it on a rock or what? If it is a fertilized mass of fish eggs you should start to see silver dots in each egg as they mature, the eyes of the larval fry. fwiw, doesn't look like any nudi or snail egg mass i've ever seen. __________________ All Your Coral Are Belong To Us Current Tank Info: 30 Deep Blue shallow mixed rimless, MP10, Ecoxotic LED's, SCA 301 skimmer.

07/04/2006, 12:08 AM	#4
westin Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: port hueneme CA Posts: 57	here another pic There was one of these before I got a pair of ocellaris. The one before had little tenticles in the sack like thing. could it be a worm? there is spaghetti worms in the tank.

07/03/2006, 07:31 PM	#3
lpkirby Registered Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Hempstead, TX Posts: 701	What are you asking about, the greenish or orange stuff??? The greenish stuff looks like sponge... hmmm

07/04/2006, 07:14 AM	#5
RicksReefs Moved On Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: In America's Dangling Junk State. Posts: 6,413	it kinda looks like a protozoan infection. is/was there something living at the site of these 'sacks' that's gone/going?

07/04/2006, 01:06 PM	#6
westin Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: port hueneme CA Posts: 57	I looked at it today and it seems all the orange/red dots are gone and the sack is broken. Nothing I could see or put there was living. Maybe in the rock or under the sand? If its bad will harm the tank much?

07/04/2006, 01:24 PM	#7
RicksReefs Moved On Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: In America's Dangling Junk State. Posts: 6,413	well, that does sound like an eggmass hatching. whatever it is will likely end up as food, but you never know..