found this on my glass please ID

cranberry

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Snail eggs. Do you have any nerites? There's actually a few common snails that can lay a random pattern.
 
spanko

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Here is a closer picture of Nassarius snail eggs. Does a close up of yours look like this?
 
superhero

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Originally Posted by spanko
http:///forum/post/3064293
Here is a closer picture of Nassarius snail eggs. Does a close up of yours look like this?

YUP thats it... should i just leave them on the glass and let them hatch or does it not even matter and just whipe them off?
 
spanko

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Either way is good. If some do happen to hatch you may get somehting to live out of it. If you wipe them off they could become food for the fish, coral, inverts. If the look doesn't bother you too much just let them be and see what develops.
 
cranberry

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Wait now, that reminds me of a thread a couple of years ago where we were talking about different nass's and the different patterns.... I wonder if I can find it.
 
superhero

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Originally Posted by Cranberry
http:///forum/post/3064374
My nass's leave a pattern. What kind of nass's do you have?
just plain old boring ones they are the same ones that swf.com sells and there are like 2 "Clumps or areas" where they are on the glass... there doesnt really seem to be any pattern to it... and i think im going to leave them because i dont have many corals yet (they come on Thursday!!!) and just a tiny clown goby, green chromis and 3 sexy shrimp
 
spanko

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I am going to guess Nassarius obsoletus, mud snails as they lay their eggs in capsules.
Here is a Nassarius vibex laying eggs.
 
cranberry

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Ya, that's JustDavidP's picture.... the one spanko posted. I think we figured out they weren't vibex though.
Of those SH posted, the first pic... can't tell, the second is not a obsoleta... but there is not such thing as a Nassarius obsoleta... they are Ilyanassa obsoletas.
 
cranberry

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These are I. obsoleta snails.... mud snails. I totally forget who emailed these to me to look at... but this isn't my pic.

 
spanko

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From
Journal of Chemical Ecology
0098-0331 (Print) 1573-1561 (Online)
Volume 28, Number 11 / November, 2002
"Mud snails (Ilyanassa obsoleta = Nassarius obsoletus = Nassa obsoleta) deposit eggs in protective capsules on hard substrata in soft bottom environments."
Unless taxonomy has changed since that publication which is entirely possible because that happens all the time.
 
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