What kind of eggs are these??!!??

[Gahngoo]

What kind of eggs are these? I'm thinking snail eggs (zebra or turbo). Anyone know?

 

[ihavecrabs]

Unsure about Zebra but not turbo snails. My understanding is Turbo snails do not lay eggs.

 

[Tahoe61]

Can you list your inverts and fish please.

 

[Gahngoo]

Can you list your inverts and fish please.

Large Mexican turbos, large zebra turbos, hermit crabs, six line wrasse, yellow wrasse, melanarus wrasse, yellow chromis, starry blenny, tiger jawfish, flame hawk, blue gudgeon dartfish, pajama cardinal, tomini tang.

 

[Tahoe61]

I am not familiar with Turbo snail eggs, but I do not think those are snail eggs, but I could definitely be wrong.

Where did you find them in the tank and were they in that ball formation?

Love ID challenges.

 

[Gahngoo]

Floating at the top of the tank near the overflow box. It wasn't solid, but stayed together in a cluster though.

 

[reef lover]

Fish poop???

 

[KJ]

Strange looking thing.
@Lovemyreef2015 @Jose Mayo

 

[Dancingmad]

Fish poop???

Looks like tang poop to me! My YT drops some bombs like that occasionally.

 

[Jose Mayo]

Strange looking thing.
@Lovemyreef2015 @Jose Mayo

I do not think they are eggs, they look like anemone excrement to me.

Regards

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

This one has got me stumped.. I will continue to research this.

 

[Gahngoo]

Fish poop???

No. Definitely eggs

 

[Gahngoo]

I do not think they are eggs, they look like anemone excrement to me.

Regards

99% Sure it's not poop. They all are the same size and fall apart from the mass. I do have a tube anemone though.

 

[Jose Mayo]

99% Sure it's not poop. They all are the same size and fall apart from the mass. I do have a tube anemone though.

In a freshwater aquarium, if you have apple snails, you will eventually find egg pouch shaped like the photo, but with eggs of different color and shape. In marine aquariums I have not yet seen snail eggs with this aspect, color and shape, but I already had an actinic anemone, which fed with pieces of fish and sometimes eliminated waste with that aspect.

Regards

 

[Gahngoo]

In a freshwater aquarium, if you have apple snails, you will eventually find egg pouch shaped like the photo, but with eggs of different color and shape. In marine aquariums I have not yet seen snail eggs with this aspect, color and shape, but I already had an actinic anemone, which fed with pieces of fish and sometimes eliminated waste with that aspect.

Regards

Hmmm. I only have the one tube anemone. Would it look like a cluster of little eggs or pellets? I've had my anemone for more than 10 years and have never seen this before. Weird.

 

[Jose Mayo]

Hmmm. I only have the one tube anemone. Would it look like a cluster of little eggs or pellets? I've had my anemone for more than 10 years and have never seen this before. Weird.

The appearance of the waste will depend on what the anemone eats and the time it accumulates the waste before it expels, something like this image below:

Next to the oral orifice, you see the "acorn" that was expelled.

Regards