clown eggs?

[Colleen]

Yesterday some white stringy and bumpy stuff appeared on two different rocks
on opposite sides of my tank. I was wondering what was growing all of the
sudden, but the only thing that makes sense are eggs. Today I just noticed
more of this stuff on the back glass in two close spots. When I had a
freshwater tank I had a pair of angels that laid eggs every so often, but
was unable to get them to live. The stuff in my salt tank is different in
that it is kind of stringy in some places, but the bumps look like they can
be eggs.
Has anyone had experience with this? Is there any hope of offspring? I've
heard it extremely difficult to breed sal****er fish.
TIA
Colleen

[George]

"Colleen" > wrote in message
...
> Yesterday some white stringy and bumpy stuff appeared on two different rocks
> on opposite sides of my tank. I was wondering what was growing all of the
> sudden, but the only thing that makes sense are eggs. Today I just noticed
> more of this stuff on the back glass in two close spots. When I had a
> freshwater tank I had a pair of angels that laid eggs every so often, but
> was unable to get them to live. The stuff in my salt tank is different in
> that it is kind of stringy in some places, but the bumps look like they can
> be eggs.
> Has anyone had experience with this? Is there any hope of offspring? I've
> heard it extremely difficult to breed sal****er fish.
> TIA
> Colleen
>

If you could post a link somewhere to a photo, we might be better able to assist
you. It doesn't sound like clown eggs to me. Clown fish usually lay their eggs
all in one place, and in an especially well protected place at that. Then they
guard them fiercely. Having said that, how many female clowns do you have (if
they are all one species, you should only have one).

[Colleen]

George wrote:
It doesn't sound like clown eggs to me. Clown fish usually lay their eggs
> all in one place, and in an especially well protected place at that. Then
they
> guard them fiercely. Having said that, how many female clowns do you have
(if
> they are all one species, you should only have one).

I have one female. I now am thinking it might be snails by what a friend of
mine experienced.
Does the lunar pull have anything to do with it because there are a lot of
eggs? Maybe more than one snail?

[Pszemol]

"Colleen" > wrote in message ...
> I have one female. I now am thinking it might be snails by what a friend of
> mine experienced.
> Does the lunar pull have anything to do with it because there are a lot of
> eggs? Maybe more than one snail?

These are snails eggs for sure.
Clownfish eggs are not stringy, there is just a patch of eggs guarded by fish.
Snails drop the eggs on the rocks/glass in random location and abandon them.
I tried to rise snails from eggs some time ago, but with no luck...

[George]

"Colleen" > wrote in message
...
> George wrote:
> It doesn't sound like clown eggs to me. Clown fish usually lay their eggs
>> all in one place, and in an especially well protected place at that. Then
> they
>> guard them fiercely. Having said that, how many female clowns do you have
> (if
>> they are all one species, you should only have one).
>
> I have one female. I now am thinking it might be snails by what a friend of
> mine experienced.
> Does the lunar pull have anything to do with it because there are a lot of
> eggs? Maybe more than one snail?
>

It could be snails. I'd watch closely and see what you get.

[Colleen]

> > George wrote:

> It could be snails. I'd watch closely and see what you get.

Thanks people.

Anybody have advice on how to take care of these? Babies would be fun!

[George]

"Colleen" > wrote in message
...
>
>> > George wrote:
>
>> It could be snails. I'd watch closely and see what you get.
>
> Thanks people.
>
> Anybody have advice on how to take care of these? Babies would be fun!
>

If it is snail egss, there is nothing to do. When they hatch, they'll start to
feed on the algae and detritus in the tank.

[CheezWiz]

My Cerith snails mate and lay eggs all the time. The eggs never survive too
long before they become food for other critters..

CW
"Colleen" > wrote in message
...
>
>> > George wrote:
>
>> It could be snails. I'd watch closely and see what you get.
>
> Thanks people.
>
> Anybody have advice on how to take care of these? Babies would be fun!
>
>

[Pszemol]

"George" > wrote in message news:D_j2e.114586$r55.1473@attbi_s52...
> If it is snail egss, there is nothing to do. When they hatch,
> they'll start to feed on the algae and detritus in the tank.

??? What kind of marine snails are you talking about, George?
From what I know, almost all of them have planktonic larvae stage
called veliger feeding on green water. This stage is very fragile so
there is almost no chance for them suriviving in the tank with pumps.
You could try removing eggs to some container and then feeding them
with product like DT phytoplankton or something similar, but I would
not bet on a great survival rates...

Good luck and keep us posted!

[George]

"Pszemol" > wrote in message
...
> "George" > wrote in message
> news:D_j2e.114586$r55.1473@attbi_s52...
>> If it is snail egss, there is nothing to do. When they hatch,
>> they'll start to feed on the algae and detritus in the tank.
>
> ??? What kind of marine snails are you talking about, George?
> From what I know, almost all of them have planktonic larvae stage
> called veliger feeding on green water. This stage is very fragile so
> there is almost no chance for them suriviving in the tank with pumps.
> You could try removing eggs to some container and then feeding them
> with product like DT phytoplankton or something similar, but I would
> not bet on a great survival rates...
>
> Good luck and keep us posted!

Hmmm. I 've had limpets in my tank for years, and they seem to reproduce very
well without me doing a thing, and regardless of all the pumps and filtration I
have.

[kryppy]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 03:05:10 GMT, "George"
> wrote:

>
>"Pszemol" > wrote in message
...
>> "George" > wrote in message
>> news:D_j2e.114586$r55.1473@attbi_s52...
>>> If it is snail egss, there is nothing to do. When they hatch,
>>> they'll start to feed on the algae and detritus in the tank.
>>
>> ??? What kind of marine snails are you talking about, George?
>> From what I know, almost all of them have planktonic larvae stage
>> called veliger feeding on green water. This stage is very fragile so
>> there is almost no chance for them suriviving in the tank with pumps.
>> You could try removing eggs to some container and then feeding them
>> with product like DT phytoplankton or something similar, but I would
>> not bet on a great survival rates...
>>
>> Good luck and keep us posted!
>
>Hmmm. I 've had limpets in my tank for years, and they seem to reproduce very
>well without me doing a thing, and regardless of all the pumps and filtration I
>have.
>


Agree, my snails reproduce just fine as well as the limpets.

[Pszemol]

"George" > wrote in message news:GNJ2e.121025$Ze3.48088@attbi_s51...
> Hmmm. I 've had limpets in my tank for years, and they seem to reproduce very
> well without me doing a thing, and regardless of all the pumps and filtration
> I have.

I have also noticed limpets multiplying in my tank...
Cannot say the same about other kinds of snail.
There must be something unique about limpets life cycle
allowing them complete the cycle regardless of shredding pumps.

[Pszemol]

"kryppy" > wrote in message ...
>>> ??? What kind of marine snails are you talking about, George?
[...]
>>
>>Hmmm. I 've had limpets in my tank for years, and they seem to reproduce very
>>well without me doing a thing, and regardless of all the pumps and filtration I
>>have.
>
> Agree, my snails reproduce just fine as well as the limpets.

Guys, please be little more specific when you talk about your animals :-))

What kind of snails are you talking about, kryppy?

[kryppy]

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:55:30 -0600, "Pszemol" >
wrote:

>"kryppy" > wrote in message ...
>>>> ??? What kind of marine snails are you talking about, George?
>[...]
>>>
>>>Hmmm. I 've had limpets in my tank for years, and they seem to reproduce very
>>>well without me doing a thing, and regardless of all the pumps and filtration I
>>>have.
>>
>> Agree, my snails reproduce just fine as well as the limpets.
>
>Guys, please be little more specific when you talk about your animals :-))
>

I'll have to put some pics up. They are sorta zebra looking guys I get
from the shore lines of the FL keys.

They will eat any scum they find. I swear they would eat the goo out
of a skimmer.

>What kind of snails are you talking about, kryppy?

[Pszemol]

"kryppy" > wrote in message ...
>>> Agree, my snails reproduce just fine as well as the limpets.
>>
>>Guys, please be little more specific when you talk about your animals :-))
>
> I'll have to put some pics up. They are sorta zebra looking guys I get
> from the shore lines of the FL keys.
>
> They will eat any scum they find. I swear they would eat the goo out
> of a skimmer.

Probably you are talking about nerite snails pictured on the last photo here:
http://www.reeftopia.com/Coolphotos.html

I have had some of them in my tank but had no luck keeping them alive.
They sorta walk away from the tank and dry out on my carpet waiting for the rising tide :-(
Also found mine on the sea shore of Florida Keys (Marathon island).

This is amasing to hear they breed in your tank completing the life cycle.
These are great looking snails, and I would love to keep them as long
as I could figure out a way to keep them under the water level ;-)

[George]

"Pszemol" > wrote in message
...
> "George" > wrote in message
> news:GNJ2e.121025$Ze3.48088@attbi_s51...
>> Hmmm. I 've had limpets in my tank for years, and they seem to reproduce
>> very well without me doing a thing, and regardless of all the pumps and
>> filtration
>> I have.
>
> I have also noticed limpets multiplying in my tank...
> Cannot say the same about other kinds of snail.
> There must be something unique about limpets life cycle
> allowing them complete the cycle regardless of shredding pumps.

I have even found limpets growing inside my skilter filter, so they definitely
get past the pumps with no problem. I suspect that the eggs are very small and
are not laid on a substrate, but apparently become part of the plankton. I've
seen limpets release a milky substance in the water (whether it is sperm, eggs,
or both, I can't say). When they do this, they look like little volcanoes
erupting.

[Marc Levenson]

Here are some clownfish eggs:
http://melevsreef.com/id/eggs.html

and here are some cerith snail eggs:
http://melevsreef.com/id/cerith_eggs.html
from a cerith snail:
http://melevsreef.com/pics/1204/cerith.jpg

Marc


Colleen wrote:

> Yesterday some white stringy and bumpy stuff appeared on two different rocks
> on opposite sides of my tank. I was wondering what was growing all of the
> sudden, but the only thing that makes sense are eggs. Today I just noticed
> more of this stuff on the back glass in two close spots. When I had a
> freshwater tank I had a pair of angels that laid eggs every so often, but
> was unable to get them to live. The stuff in my salt tank is different in
> that it is kind of stringy in some places, but the bumps look like they can
> be eggs.
> Has anyone had experience with this? Is there any hope of offspring? I've
> heard it extremely difficult to breed sal****er fish.
> TIA
> Colleen
>
>

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