Cluster of Eggs - ID needed

[ihavecrabs]

So I was doing my weekly husbandry on the tank and cutting coral when I noticed a cluster of eggs snagged in the guard on my MP40.

Fish in the tank That have a pair:
- Wide Barred Shrimp Goby pair
- Zebra barred Dartfish trio
- DaVinci Clownfish pair

They don’t look like clownfish eggs to me. I do have a pair of blood red shrimp too.

I’m stumped.

 

[ihavecrabs]

#reefsquad

 

[fishguy242]

hi,interesting,goby,dartfish my guess ,shrimp carry,agree do not look like clown eggs ,following @Jay Hemdal

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

You mentioned fish that you have a pair of, don't forget that unfertilized eggs can also be released by a lone female fish. As said, not shrimp or clownfish. My guess would be the gobies, as they should make an egg cluster that they incubate in their burrow - they may have gotten kicked out due to developmental issues.

 

[ihavecrabs]

You mentioned fish that you have a pair of, don't forget that unfertilized eggs can also be released by a lone female fish. As said, not shrimp or clownfish. My guess would be the gobies, as they should make an egg cluster that they incubate in their burrow - they may have gotten kicked out due to developmental issues.

Thanks Jay! Appreciate the advice.

Non-fish pairs are Blue tang, yellow tang, blue star leopard wrasse, kaudern’s cardinalfish, and royal gramma. I also have a six line and another tang in the frag tank linked into this system.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

The eggs are pretty large, I wonder if your Kauderni cardinalfish released an non-fertilized eggs mass?
Jay