Strange Behavior

[gclackum]

I've got a pair of clowns had them for several months, not sure how many. Once again wishing I kept a log. Anyway I added a new bubble tip several weeks ago. and now I've noticed the male has been acting very strange lately. He seems to be staying just outside the BTA and constantly grooming a rock. I took a look and there is something movng in the current, but adhered to the rock. I can't get a real good look, but it looked like some kind of thin stalks 1/8" long (maybe shorter) swaying in the current. I shiined a flashlight on them tonight and noticed they are reflective (at least shiney).

What is it? Anyone with an idea?

 

[victor626nj]

your clowns had babies or at leaste laid eggs

 

[gclackum]

OK, I'll show my ignorance here. I just assumed that eggs would be round or some shape other than stalky.

 

[dannybradley]

The best way I can describe the shape of clownfish eggs is that they look like a patch of brussle sprout heads.

 

[gclackum]

Are the heads shiney

 

[dannybradley]

To a degree, yes. It's not like a lens flare or anything.

 

[gclackum]

OK thanks guys for the help. Do they ever survive to hatch and swim in a tank?

 

[victor626nj]

nah they will probably eat them so no one else will but if they do hatch they wont survive

 

[dannybradley]

Most salt water fish have that tricky free floating larval stage as plankton that just makes them really hard to rear in a home aquarium. Check your specific gravity, btw. Clowns tend to breed with a sudden drop in water density.