Let the eggs live or suck them up?

[accidental_reefer]

Hi there, I’ve googled imaged through a bunch of photos but haven’t found eggs looking like these and in this pattern, ie, clusters of strings of white eggs. The closest they look like (to me) are trochus but haven’t seen them in that pattern. So not sure whether these will be pests (assuming they are eggs).

I have astrea, trochus, bumble bee, nassarious (the brown ones), and stomatella snails. I have a couple of blue hermit crabs and a couple of hitchhikers, which appear to be porcelain and gorilla crabs (traps unsuccessful to date). There also appears to be a bunch of brittle starfishes. I also think I have a pin cushion hitchhiker. I think I have some worms but not sure which ones.

I could take clear photos only under blue light. Thanks for the insight.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Are they a very dark green or a pink/purplish color under white light?

 

[accidental_reefer]

Hi there, they look pure white or transparent/whitish — although most of them looks to have disappeared (but no fish in the tank and water movement did not appear to be moving them yesterday).

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

Hi there, they look pure white or transparent/whitish — although most of them looks to have disappeared (but no fish in the tank and water movement did not appear to be moving them yesterday).

Interesting - they look far too irregular/not uniform enough (at least size-wise) to be any eggs that I'm aware of. Regardless, if they're eggs and they've disappeared, then they've likely hatched: pelagic larvae wouldn't last long in a normal tank, but benthic larvae could see potentially see some survivors.

Keep us updated if anything new pops up that may have come from these.