Eggs ID Please

[KyleC]

Recently added some nice big nassarius snails... but nothing else in a long time. Any idea what these eggs are? Don't look anything like what I'd expect nassarius snail eggs to look like. Approx 5mm diameter, clustered but move slightly with the current. Thanks!

 

[KyleC]

Video won't upload... hermits are making short work of them

 

[BonnieB]

If you put the video on YouTube and then upload it here it will work! Just IME my snail eggs are always clinging to the glass.

 

[kevgib67]

Can’t see it but here’s a picture of one of my nassarius snails laying eggs while my shrimp eats them.

 

[doinmybest666]

I can't see the picture you posted, but these are what my nassarius snails' eggs look like. Mine lay eggs on the glass pretty often and the second image is about the amount they normally lay.

 

[KyleC]

Thanks guys. Yeah these eggs are very different to those. Hopefully this picture uploads now. These are on the rocks too as opposed to the glass.

 

[JonoH]

Dont look like any snail eggs i have seen before!
Almost looks like bubble algae, but its not I dont think.

 

[KyleC]

I had checked the tank maybe 15 minutes before this and they weren't there. Nothing else in my tank that I can think of that would lay eggs like this. My hermits and Nassarius snails (diff species to those recently added) ate them within minutes.

 

[JonoH]

Could have been hermit crab eggs?

 

[KyleC]

Could have been hermit crab eggs?

They keep the eggs in their shells then at night release the larvae. Saw them do it before. This has me stomped! No one seems to know what they are.

 

[JonoH]

@ISpeakForTheSeas

 

[KyleC]

Bump

 

[KyleC]

Anyone? Tank inhabitants below:

• Regal, scopas, tomini tang
• Royal gramma
• Two common clowns
• Cardinal
• Midas blenny
• Cleaner wrasse
• 2 hernits (red legged)
• Two types of nassarius snails
• Colonista, dove snails
• Black footed trochus
• Conche snail
• Mixed corals
• Berghia

 

[D'sreef]

I can confirm it's not the bergia, their eggs are typically layed in a spiral pattern, and collonista snails are typically clear blobs.

 

[KyleC]

I can confirm it's not the bergia, their eggs are typically layed in a spiral pattern, and collonista snails are typically clear blobs.

Yea, I've both in my tank currently. Far as I can see, all common reef tank snail eggs are similar. These ones I can only assume come from the new species of Nassarius as that's the only new addition to the tank in months. I did see very similar eggs in one online article about Nassarius, but they never referenced or discussed the image specifically