ID..... reef hot dogs

[DaveJ]

Here are some hot dog string like things that appeared in my tank today. Frank seems to think they probably clown eggs... I have a pair of black clowns.... so its very possible. Anyone with clowns who lay eggs care to confirm??

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There were two types of these things, pink and white both.

 

[timthetoolman]

Uh, Dave...those don't look like my clown eggs... :shock:

 

[DaveJ]

@timthetoolman wrote:

Yeah aren't they small and round? Like salmon roe but smaller??

 

[Tag]

My Clarkii's lay eggs all the time.......... The first day they are a bright orange, and look like big clutch of pin heads and get darker as the days go by.

Marc's ID page - see top row for example
http://www.melevsreef.com/id/fish.html


possible some type of spaghetti worm?
http://flickr.com/photos/ken-ichi/505021097/

 

[DaveJ]

@Tag wrote:

Nope.. not a worm. They are free floating and sticky... defintely eggs of some sort. But I am at a loss as to which kind.

Thought something blew its guts because they look like little intestines, but even that is not totally accurate.

 

[melev]

I've seen bristleworms spawn before, but as soon as that pink stuff hit the water, it dissipated. Perhaps some type of snail eggs, but definitely not clownfish eggs. They don't lay them in strings.

 

[DaveJ]

@Marc wrote:

Could be... any idea what cumcumber eggs look like or those black limpets i have?

 

[melev]

No, I've never seen either. Cucumbers (at least the ones I know of) twist and tear themselves in half.

 

[hooterhead]

Looks like dragon's breath algae to me. I've had it pop out of rocks several times in the past. Wicked cool macro.

 

[DaveJ]

Well... I think I may have found out what these are... my cuke is looking VERY thin today. Its still movin around etc... but its a shadow of what it was earlier in the week. So either its spawned or it blew some guts out.

There are very few left today so something had a snack.