Mystery eggs

[ndj12]

I woke up this morning to my small 29 gallon reef tank murky in color, with hundreds of eggs floating around the tank, with a large concentration of them them atop a fuzzy mushroom. If you can identify them please help. This has never happened in the last 6 years, and nothing new has been added in the last year. Last night it was clear, with no eggs.

 

[Hitman]

What do you have for livestock?

 

[ndj12]

I also want to add, I have 2 turbo snails, their eggs are off white, spiral and stuck on at a time to the glass or rock. The fuzzy mushrooms have also spread over the years, and this has never happened as part of it spreading.

 

[ndj12]

What do you have for livestock?

I didn't know there was a specific name other than live rock. How can I know what it is, to tell you more?

 

[Mykesocalreef]

Think they meant like your live stock list. Fish,crabs that sort of stuff.

 

[Hitman]

What do you have fish wise is what I meant.

 

[MTBake]

Never seen an egg sack like that before. A list of all fish and inverts that are in your tank could help identify what left these. (A livestock list.)

I wouldn't worry much about the cloudy water. I had a massive spawning of astrea snails a couple months ago. The tank looked like milk, it was so cloudy. It cleared up by the next day on its own.

 

[ndj12]

What do you have fish wise is what I meant.

Sorry, I just caught that. I real live, and ock, my brain made the connection. At the moment no live fish. 2 turbo snails, a pencil sea urchin, 4 small cleaner crabs, frogspawn coral, fuzzy mushrooms, and a small favia coral

 

[Mykesocalreef]

Maybe the urchin?

 

[MTBake]

I was thinking the urchin as well.

 

[ndj12]

I was thinking the urchin as well.

I looked that up. If it was a female, eggs are orange. If male, white, and not egg shape.

 

[MTBake]

I looked that up. If it was a female, eggs are orange. If male, white, and not egg shape.

I've been looking for this as well. I can't find anything that looks like this at all. Curious to find out what left these eggs myself.

 

[Fudsey]

#reefsquad @KJ

 

[SeaJay]

Let us know when they hatch...

 

[rkpetersen]

Those are beautiful eggs. Corallimorphs have occasionally been observed releasing eggs; could they be from the mushroom itself?

 

[MTBake]

Those are beautiful eggs. Corallimorphs have occasionally been observed releasing eggs; could they be from the mushroom itself?

Most likely the case here.

Came across this article. It does mention the release of eggs in the 3rd paragraph.

www.advancedaquarist.com/2002/10/inverts

 

[SandJ]

Do they look like these...

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/hermit-crab-eggs.272835/

I was never able to identify these eggs.

 

[KJ]

Never seen an egg like that before.

 

[sfin52]

Looks to be coming from the mouth of the coral.

 

[rachel Orth]

Those are snail eggs. I've seen them coming out of my snail. The mushrooms are probably eating them. When my snail releases them everything in my tank tries to eat them.

 

[rachel Orth]

Those are snail eggs. I've seen them coming out of my snail. The mushrooms are probably eating them. When my snail releases them everything in my tank tries to eat them.

I'm talking the first eggs shown here. They look like clusters of purple grapes.