Cool development picture.

[billsreef]

Figure you would all like to see this picture. It's a photomicrograph of some Top Smelt eggs I'm currently incubating in the lab. Picture was taken 4 days after the eggs were collected via strip spawning. The picture was taken and labeled by our groups Post Doc.

http://reefcentral.com/gallery/data/500/32makin-babies.jpg

[rkelman]

Very cool

[agsansoo]

Are these silverside eggs ?

[billsreef]

Close, they are from the same family. They are Top Smelt, from your coast ;) Very similar to silverside (Menidia) eggs. Interestingly, silverside eggs are very sticky and will stick to anything. Smelt eggs stick to each other very well, but not to other objects.