white squiggly on glass

[tomroeiii]

Can some one please help me identify what this is? I get a new one on my glass every other day...

[Viet-Tin]

Could possibly be snail or slug eggs.

[mathias]

cerithi snail or something like that...

[kaiser]

Snail eggs of some kind. Instar would know.

[marinebeginner]

Freaky looking!! :lol:

[GaryP]

Yep, snail eggs. Look for babies in your overflow.

Gary

[Instar]

Nice picture. Neither species of either white or black cerith snails that I have lay eggs that look like that.
What kind of snails do you have in there?

[GaryP]

Could it be Nerite snails?

Gary

[Tim Marvin]

I think I had some small black turbos that laid eggs like that.

[Instar]

After looking at the picture for a while, I think they are black cerith snail eggs. Its just hard to see them with the reflection of the flash off the egg coil. They have a velger larval stage and with lots of luck, if you gently scrape them off the glass and put them in a corner of a very low exchanging flow refugium (as opposed to a refugium with an input on one end and drain on the opposite end), you might get a couple that survive to become snails. Anyway, the larva are good food for your corals and other filter feeders.