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Lynnmw1208
04/28/2011, 05:24 PM
So I found some eggs today and I was wondering if anyone knew who laid them. They are in a clear goo and the eggs themselves are pink in color. here's a picture, the best I could get since my camera had a hard time focusing in on them. (wish I had a macro lens)

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bobbychullo
04/28/2011, 05:48 PM
tell us what you have in the tank for livestock...
Lynnmw1208
04/28/2011, 06:12 PM
tell us what you have in the tank for livestock...

margarita snails
cerith snails
astrea snails
hermits
some kind of pistol that hitch hiked
2 ocellaris clowns
green mandarin
2 possibly 3 peppermints (haven't seen the first one I added)
flyhigh123
04/28/2011, 08:55 PM
green mandarin laid them....
Lynnmw1208
04/28/2011, 08:59 PM
green mandarin laid them....

I highly doubt this. She never ventures to that side of the tank, ever. I can tell because there are pods on that side galore and not on her side.
ecdragonz
04/28/2011, 11:47 PM
May be the clowns
bnumair
04/29/2011, 12:02 AM
clowns or snails
Raven1645
04/29/2011, 10:16 AM
clowns or snails

To what I know that's an unlikely place for clowns to lay eggs if you have live rock.
Maybe the mandarin's eggs floated there.
Is there alot of flow in your tank?
ginger7286
04/30/2011, 09:08 AM
I agree the eggs could have floated over, Clown eggs are usually attached to something.
cloak
04/30/2011, 11:48 AM
I think you would know if your clowfish did in fact spawn in your tank, whether the eggs floated over or not. Their behavior alone would indicate that something was up. I doubt it was the mandarins as well. I think they're broadcast spawners just like the margarita snails. It's something else. Cerith snail eggs don't look like that in my opinion and I'm pretty sure the peppermint shrimp carries the brood around underneath the body and then releases them into the water at the right time.
Other than the astrea snails, the hermit crabs and the pistol shrimp, you might just have a mystery spawner on your hands. Let's hope it's friendly. ;)
Lynnmw1208
04/30/2011, 04:42 PM
Thanks for the replies everyone! I do have 2 strombus grazer snails that hitch hiked in on the LR. maybe the eggs are theirs?