Invested?! Need ID please

[Tn23]

Hi guys,

Was doing a water change tonight and flipped over one of my corals/rocks and noticed it was invested with these white bubbles... I touched it and they popped very easily.

I took a closer look and I noticed some small baby pod like things inside them... they looked kindof like eggs....... however there's nothing in that tank since its my frag tank and there is only a 6 line wrasse, stary blenny, and arrow crab.

If anyone could ID these for me that would great, I hope they aren't pest... or I'm going to toss that rock out ASAP. Pictures attached and thanks in advance!

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/af299/ngthomas23/Corals/20130821_022247_zpsd38fb789.jpg (http://s1017.photobucket.com/user/ngthomas23/media/Corals/20130821_022247_zpsd38fb789.jpg.html)

http://i1017.photobucket.com/albums/af299/ngthomas23/Corals/20130821_022335_zps3ccc63ac.jpg (http://s1017.photobucket.com/user/ngthomas23/media/Corals/20130821_022335_zps3ccc63ac.jpg.html)
If you look closely you can see the tiny eyes/bodies forming....

[Dearth]

I could be way off the mark and no expert but I am thinking your crab laid some eggs

[Flash]

and I think you mean infested!

[monocus]

not if they hatch,raises them and then sells them

[tang daddy]

Those are eggs of some sort, look like little brown tadpoles in the sacs...

[Tn23]

and I think you mean infested!

Totally meant infested LOL.

Guess I'll have to let them hatch to find out then eh?

[michika]

Totally meant infested LOL.

Guess I'll have to let them hatch to find out then eh?

But if the eggs turn out to be some cash crop then you're definitely invested! :lol:

[Tn23]

But if the eggs turn out to be some cash crop then you're definitely invested! :lol:

hahaha, I doubt it. Its weird because I don't have any live stock in that tank but those 3...... and that coral/rock piece has been in there for a couple months...

really boggles my mind, I'm scared that suddenly it'll POP and i'll have 100 spiders crawling around......... :redface:

[Bayside Corals]

My guess is tunicates. They come in many colors and sizes. They are a harmless filter feeder.

Colby

[toytech]

does anybody else see the brown spots in other places or is it just me , the size shape and color of the brown spots look like flatworms to me but I can only spot one on each egg and maybe some eggs popped . Arrow crabs hold there eggs so there not that could be truncates , maybe look elsewhere for flatworms.

[monocus]

it looks like each brown spot also has a small brown tail-look up crab embryos or your wrasse or blenny embryo

[xtreme]

My guess is tunicates. They come in many colors and sizes. They are a harmless filter feeder.


+1 I have seen something very similar before and they were tunicates.

[Tn23]

it looks like each brown spot also has a small brown tail-look up crab embryos or your wrasse or blenny embryo


someone also told me it was just bubble algae that was not getting any light and not able to photosynthesize. However I noticed there's small embryo like things inside the eggs as well, this is soo creepy. At least they won't hatch right?

[monocus]

as long as they don't jump out the tank and cover your face

[pinkreef]

keep us posted when they hatch. do you have a microscope you can get ahold of?

[monocus]

if your ever out in burnaby you could put one under my microscope.you also might get a better id if you take a picture of them under water

[Tn23]

Hey Bill, I'll snap a photo of them underwater tonight and maybe you guys can have a better look.

And yes as long as they don't crawl out to get me. ... It is an open to tank haha

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[michika]

as long as they don't jump out the tank and cover your face

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AbP-HlVnDCw/TdiWOLvpL1I/AAAAAAAAC2g/e0yjJJmATQw/s200/Alien-egg-aliens.jpg