Jelly like things. Egg sacks?

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found these pretty much infesting a large zoa colony. not sure what they are. they are jelly blobs, with what looks to be eggs, but not sure. they dont move. they remind me alot of bubble algae, but these arent as "poppable" like bubble algae, and have a mucus that seems to hold them to the zoa. the colony that these are on, are super health, so they arent being affected, but im not sure what these are
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that’s my guess. I have a lot do them.
 

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i think i had figured it out. i think they are the body part of a hydroid. ive had these long enough, where if they were eggs, they should have hatched 20 times over by now. when the zoa colonoy is open, i would always see these things that look like they were stuck in the tentacles of the zoa. kinda reminded me of a mysis carcas, or some other frozen food that got caught by the zoa. these things seem to be part of the clear sacks that i find in between the zoas themself. upon close inspection, with a magnifier, it resembles a string extended out with fingers. i believe it to be some sort of hydroid, or at the very least, the closest thing i could find upon google searching. in the stickied thread of hitch hikers, its the closest resemblence there is, even though it doesnt really resemble it.
 
nassarius snail eggs
 

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