Please tell me these are just snail eggs?

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I’ve recently added a ton of snails and today I noticed these on my candy cane coral. Any idea what they are?

snail species recently added:
Mexican turbo snails
Trochus snails
Lightning dove snails
Nassarius vibex
Florida cerith
And some apocyclops pods

I’ve also got:
Dwarf ceriths
Tonga fighting conchs
Astrea snails
1 Florida fighting conch
Fuzzy chitons
Limpets
Others I’m probably forgetting

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My guess would be dwarf cerith eggs, they populate very quickly and their eggs look very similar to that. I’ve just never seen them on a coral stalk. Anything seem irritated by them? I’ll give this a bump.
 
Thanks for the replies! I think I found the culprit! I had never seen them on a coral stalk either so it made me nervous that they were flatworms or something awful, but I caught one of my nassarius snails in the act under one of my gyres:
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Thanks for the replies! I think I found the culprit! I had never seen them on a coral stalk either so it made me nervous that they were flatworms or something awful, but I caught one of my nassarius snails in the act under one of my gyres:
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+1 nassarius eggs. Mine have done this a bunch. I’ve got several generations of snails in my 32
 

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