White dots on filaments

[737flyer]

Any idea what this could be? It just appeared on my glass overnight & is about 5” x 3”. It looks kind of like tiny eggs on strands but I can’t imagine what could lay so many! I do have a sleeeper banded goby that seems to be guarding them tho. I just saw it move a snail it thought was too close & it’s chasing the other fish away (including my other sleeper banded goby).

 

[BubbleAlgaeFarmer]

Can you get a close up on one of them?

 

[56longroof]

Do you have any snails?

 

[737flyer]

Do you have any snails?

Yes but these don’t look like my snail eggs. Those are just stuck on the glass in a curvy line. These are on long filaments that are waving off the glass.

 

[737flyer]

Can you get a close up on one of them?

 

[737flyer]

Here is a video so you can see how the filaments blow around

 

[vetteguy53081]

Here is a video so you can see how the filaments blow around
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Looks to me to be to be coral spawn

 

[737flyer]

The egg looking things are really small as you can see relative to my goby

 

[737flyer]

Looks to me to be to be coral spawn

Should I just leave it there?

 

[vetteguy53081]

Should I just leave it there?

Should be harmless however if you want to remove them, scraping into a net would be best. I at first feared eggs from nudibranch or pest but too large

 

[737flyer]

Should be harmless however if you want to remove them, scraping into a net would be best. I at first feared eggs from nudibranch or pest but too large

I guess I’ll just leave them & see what happens. Whatever it is, that goby loves it. Chases away all the other fish that come close to it & even picked up & moved a snail that was coming its way lol.

 

[GSPClown94]

The egg looking things are really small as you can see relative to my goby

Goby eggs? Sounds and looks like it is guarding the eggs.