Today I found an egg sack stuck the base of my finger leather coral. I am a little shocked since I have a saddleback clown, true percula clown, sixline wrasse, and a lemonpeel angelfish. Is it possible for the two clowns to have mated and lay eggs? The sack is about a centimeter or centimeter and a half in size. Last night the saddleback clown was sitting in the leather, which I have never seen him do before. All day today both the clowns are hovering over the leather rather than roaming around the tank as normal.
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who's who? If the percula is the male, then it wouldn't suprise me that he's not fanning the eggs... perc males are notoriously lousy at fanning the eggs because they're too busy trying to "love on" their mate...
if the saddleback is the male, he would likely be close to the eggs at all times, fanning them w/ his fins and such. The description of the eggs does not sound like clown eggs, the eggs should be in a number of "rows" and not in a sack.
A picture would help alot here if you can get one...
I will try to get a pic for you. The sack is brown/aburn color and only one sack. I am not sure of the genders of the clown fish. I thought they were both males by the way they constantly fight with each other. Harmless fighting though, mostly two kids bickering kind of fighting. I just got the lemonpeel angel two days ago. Could she possibly laid the eggs?
Here are the pics. You can see the sack quite well, but the the tiny white specks all over my glass might not show up. I have cropped one pic of the white specks so you can somewhat visualize what is on the glass. There are dozens of white specks all over the glass. They are so small you can barely see them just looking into the tank. Hope this helps with any identification. Thanks
Trying pics again
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It was macroalgae. I spent all night researching the type of algae and took all the LR out of the tank and rinsed them in saltwater. I also had to rinse off many of my corals. The tank is looking great and everything is opening beautifully now. Thanks for the help.
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The little white specks with arms are crawling hydromedusae, in the species Staurocladia oahuensis most likely. They're common in tanks and not a problem they eat tiny lil pods.
