Cluster of yellow eggs

[ZeeVee]

I just found about an hour ago, two balls of yellow eggs in my tank. The ball holds probably 50-70 eggs, and is surrounded by a very faint mucussy layer, total diameter being about 1 cm.

One of them is next to a turbo snail, (but I think the snail is dead) and the other is near nothing that could have produced it. I was thinking some kind of snail eggs, or nudibranch berghia eggs.
Not really sure if I should let them mature or not, and I have no way of taking any pictures, sorry.

Any help would be appreciated, and at this point it would be easy to get them out just in case.
thanks

[reefer madness]

Beghia Nudis lay thread like eggs that float. Turbos are pelagic spawners so it wasn't them.

[stevelkaneval]

what is pelagic?

[reefer madness]

Their eggs drift in the currents until they hatch into larvae and them metamorphosize into snails. Same as Tangs and most marine species.

[ZeeVee]

I couldn't even find any pictures on google of these things. For now I'll just watch them I guess, they are anchered to the substrate somewhat so they don't drift through the tank.

[vaporize]

pics pics pics :)

[ZeeVee]

Like I said I have no camera and no way of getting pictures up... :(

The best I can do is say it is a small, 1 cm, mucusy clear ball, that has many yellow dots inside, which are clearly eggs.

I was worried it was from a parasite that leaves on turbo snails at first.

I'll go check on it in a bit and post any changes.

[Monti]

Can you quarantine them until maturation?

[ZeeVee]

I have one of those netted baskets you use for fry, I'll put it in and move them to it. They'll still be in the tank, but they will be seperated somewhat.

That is if they are still there, I haven't checked yet..

[reefer madness]

If they are you'll want to aerate them or they will fungus if they aren't already. If they go white they are no good.

[ZeeVee]

Well they are definitely fastened to the substrate well, because they are still in their ball and in the same spot. My starfish crawled on one of the balls today and it basically repelled anything touching it.

I'm going to leave them alone and see what the heck happens with these suckas!