Sea hare eggs is it safe?

[RuGlu6]

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/andresont/IMG_0380.jpg
If i zoom in there are billions of eggs inside.
I am hesitating to kill it but wonder what will happen when these hatch and start wondering around?

[RuGlu6]

here is the parent
in sump
under LED grow lights

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b309/andresont/IMG_0313.jpg

[OCDP]

That's cool. Never heard of sea hare's laying eggs in captivity.

[RuGlu6]

LOL conditions are good for it i.e. lots of algae !
baby boom :lol:

[OCDP]

I am not much help, but I found this through a quick google search. Not really that informative.. just google Sea Hare eggs and a few links pop up.

http://www.talkingreef.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-3675.html

[justinl]

cool, looks like gross spaghetti. :wink:

well one of two things could happen. a) You could indeed get a bunch of mini slugs crawling around until they likely starve as they eat themselves out of a food supply, or b) the eggs will hatch out into planktonic veligers and be filtered or eaten by other tankmates. either way I doubt they'd survive to adulthood.

that said, if it were me, I would just leave it there.

[reef bound]

We had the same thing in our tank. They never amounted to anything. The egg mass just broke down little by little over a few weeks and disappeared in the system. I think they end up as food for whoever. They never hurt anything; no nitrate spikes or anything like that either, (no little baby hares either).

[untamed]

Mine did that many, many times. No harm ever came of it. Some fish did eventually figure out that they were edible. They never hatched.

[justinl]

do you have another sea hare in there? eggs might not even be fertilized (if so they'll never hatch)