Eggs, Lice, or Wild Rice?

Quinnchero · Jun 21, 2018

Messing around with my high end $15 Microscope and found these on a single (as far as I can tell) cerith snail. One picture shows what appears to be the same questionable white tubular form coming out from beneath the snails shell above his head. They look like they are motile but could just be the current making possible eggs (?) appear that way. Any ideas? Hopefully beneficial because I highly doubt I will easily find this guy again.
Thanks,
Quinn

HotRocks · Jun 21, 2018

I have no idea.

Maybe someone from the #reefsquad will know!

cloak · Jun 21, 2018

It's probably just poop.

Crabs McJones · Jun 21, 2018

Cerith snail poo? Don't look like traditional cerith snail eggs.

saltyhog · Jun 21, 2018

Yeah it certainly isn't eggs that came from the snail. I still think they are eggs/larvae of something though.

Sabellafella · Jun 21, 2018

Quinnchero said:
Messing around with my high end $15 Microscope and found these on a single (as far as I can tell) cerith snail. One picture shows what appears to be the same questionable white tubular form coming out from beneath the snails shell above his head. They look like they are motile but could just be the current making possible eggs (?) appear that way. Any ideas? Hopefully beneficial because I highly doubt I will easily find this guy again.
Thanks,
Quinn

Wild rice!

Does look like poop, beautiful photos. Very interesting

Quinnchero · Jun 21, 2018

saltyhog said:
Yeah it certainly isn't eggs that came from the snail. I still think they are eggs/larvae of something though.

That was my assumption too. The snail pooh theory seems a little far fetched just do the fact of the image with it coming our from behind the "head". I thin they are larvae from some other denizen though what I have no idea.

Quinnchero · Jun 21, 2018

Sabellafella said:
Wild rice!

Does look like poop, beautiful photos. Very interesting

Thanks on the pics! I was actually shocked at the resolution of such a cheap scope. Although it took me a few hours to get anything that didn't look like a drunk camera operator.