Dots on Glass

[usmcmarc]

Sorry for the bad quality picture...

I found these 5 spots on the glass this morning. Snail, Abalone or Starfish eggs?

The stuff on the inlet vent is coraline algae, this is not the same.

 

[Devilishturtles]

Definitley snail eggs, and from looking at your myinfo button, I'm guessing nerite.

 

[usmcmarc]

Probably gonna wind up as fish food? First time I have seen sail eggs in this tank.

 

[Devilishturtles]

Yeah probably. Fish food or hermit crab food, or anything else in the tank that consumes things. lol

 

[usmcmarc]

Yep, Definitely Nerites. I looked it up and the pics I saw are identical!

http://www.barrreport.com/inverts/2365-nerite-eggs-they-doomed.html

 

[Lance M.]

I have the same exact things on my walls but I don't have any nerites. Just nassarius, margaritas, and trochus snails.

 

[Diver25]

that is snail eggs good luck with them

 

[melosu58]

I agree with the snail eggs.

 

[usmcmarc]

Well...8 days and they are still there. Figured they would have been consumed by now.

 

[roka64]

Have they grown any?

 

[usmcmarc]

Dont think so...still look pretty much the same. I'm gonna leave em and see what happens. I'm not quite sure what the gestation period of a nerite snail is.

 

[usmcmarc]

They are gone...Dont know if eaten or hatched..If I see any new nerites around I guess I'll know.


Now I have TONS of these egg sacks. The back hard skeleton side of my bubble coral must have 50 - 75 of these sesame seed egg sacks on it.

There are even 5-10 of them on the back of my Astraea Snail. One snail laying eggs on the back of another.

 

[usmcmarc]

Well...Now I have TONS of tiny nerite snails all over my tank...Holy escargot batman!


I also have a bunch of another type I cant ID anywhere...I will provide a pic within a few days.

 

[cmor1701d]

I noticed hundreds of them on the back wall yesterday when I did a PWC. FREE FISH FOOD, I love it <lol>.