Spawning

[jasongo11]

Please help to ID the spawing in my nano tank. This happened twice recently and i dunno whats causing it.

It seems to be like a bag of eggs. Many many small white particles floating together. There are only 2 clown fishes, 1 damsel, 1 boxer, 1 fireshrimp, 1 pistol shrimp, 2 snails in my tank.

[jasongo11]

another pic.. pls help to resize.. thx

[jasongo11]

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[jasongo11]

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[kareen]

looks very interesting.... that does not seems like the clown fish egg....

ur oversize pic reveals lots of tiny bb worm look alike..... You may want to investigate further from there.... BTW, do your fish eat them?

PS: Or the "lines" are actually the carmera exposure thingy?

[jasongo11]

ya.. i think there are some bb worms in my tank too...

the fishes dun eat the "eggs" only the boxer seems to be feasting on them..

[kareen]

If that's the case, whatever it is, you have no worries 'cos there is something to balance the situation.... Hm... wonder what kind of worms is that. Able to take a amplified pic of 1 worm? Maybe with that more people can contribute.....

[Achilles Tang]

I've have seen my banded shrimp release shrimp fry before.... and looking at the 'burst' coming out from it.... looks like it!

Can you siphon out/stop water circulation to see if the tiny dots are shrimp-like in shape/movement? That is, before the fish finish eating them!

[kareen]

Uh? all shrimp are single.... like that also can? somemore from pic, did not reveal any syptom. I think the pic likely captured when the greedy boxer stay there for a feast..... But, I do not rule out the possibility 'cos afterall we did not see the real thing apart from a few pics.....

[jasongo11]

i just removed all the "eggs"...

very slimy... like egg yolk... lots of it...

at least got 1/3 of a can of coke...

just small dots of white particles... dun look like shrimps leh... haha...

[Achilles Tang]

interesting... what's the opposite of 'eggs'?

[Achilles Tang]

Pregnant shrimp wills carry a green pouch underbody... which turns whiter as the eggs mature and hatch... into tiny shrimp.

[jasongo11]

nope.. dun think is from my boxer... didnt notice the green substance under its belly for the past few days/week....

[Ah-lim]

interesting... what's the opposite of 'eggs'?

lol lol lol.

I still think its the snails.

[kareen]

lol lol lol.

I still think its the snails.

Highly unlikely 'cos snail eggs do not "spray" like that. They will lay the egg on rocks and corals..... since we don't see any corals and all shrimps are single, I suspect it's some kind of worms spawing thing. Whether it's good or bad worms, we do not know.....

[Fishyfish]

Probably some reef crabs did it.

[big_ben102000]

this might sound alittle stupid .. but could it be some small shellfish hiding in those rocks ? i think shell shell spray their eggs out like that

[Achilles Tang]

Snails do release sperm clouds but its in very thin milky-like puffs... not with little 'bits' like what you see here.... hmmm... the mystery deepens...

[Ah-lim]

Highly unlikely 'cos snail eggs do not "spray" like that. They will lay the egg on rocks and corals..... since we don't see any corals and all shrimps are single, I suspect it's some kind of worms spawing thing. Whether it's good or bad worms, we do not know.....

BB worm spawn.

Jason, u are doom, haha.

Nxt time take live rocks frm me lah.

Time to introduce, B worm killer....

[kareen]

BB worm spawn.

Jason, u are doom, haha.

Nxt time take live rocks frm me lah.

Time to introduce, B worm killer....

It could be beneficial worm.... and ur solution is just kill kill kill...

[jasongo11]

hmm... i have removed the substance from my tank already...

dunno what is producing this substance, however, the amount produced is way too much to be produced by any of the livestock... (by volume comparision)

this is the 2nd time that i see this substance, i suspect it might be something within my live rocks that is able to produce such huge amount of jelly like substance. i do not have any corals btw...

anyway i will keep a close watch on my tank to find out the mystery...

thx

[kareen]

If your curious enough, setup a temp tank with sponge filter juz to see....

[kareen]

Hm... FOLWR tank.... U think your filteration cannot handle the situation? It's live free meal u know.....