What is this?

[bhodges82]

I have been noticing these more and more, I find then in shaded areas of my rock and at the base of corals. I don't have any idea what they are. I was thinking maybe collonistas snail eggs, I have thousands of these snails, but I can't seem to find a pic of them. Any help would be nice. Thanks.

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[bhodges82]

The pics at from my over flow, sorry go the clarity.

 

[bhodges82]

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Around a hole in the rock...

 

[saltbubbles]

Baby barnacles? Snail eggs? Maybe Jenn will know

 

[jennm]

Hard to tell from the pix (I heard my name called?)

I'm thinking either eggs of some sort... or colonial hydroids.

The picture in post 3 is too blurry to discern anything.

Nice fat amphipod on your overflow in those first pix

Jenn

 

[bhodges82]

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[jennm]

What is that on? Is it a leather coral? If so, I'm thinking it might be nudibranchs or nudibranch eggs. Neither is a good thing.

 

[bhodges82]

It's on a toadstool. I don't have nudis, never have.

 

[bhodges82]

I think you were right first time, it may be collonial hydroids. I see a lot of then in the shadows, small stringy kind with very small polyps.

 

[bhodges82]

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Center off pic, growing downward

 

[bhodges82]

Pic is upside down. Lol. So it's growing upward...

 

[jennm]

I've never seen hydroids grow ON a coral. I'd scrape whatever it is off that leather... that's just a problem waiting to hatch, methinks.

Hydroids are bad too. Whatever they are, whether you have 2 things going on or one, I'd get rid of it.

There are lots of different nudibranchs and most feed on something very specific - ie leathers (or zoas...) I'd get that stuff OFF that coral, post haste.

Jenn