Tiny translucent circles-some with white dots???

[Eddie G]

Can someone identify the following for me. It is on the acrylic in the front of my tank. It is a group of 4 circles. They are translucent or almost clear. One of them have 5 pin sized white dots inside. One has four white dots. And two don't have anything inside. They are a little less then 1/8" in diameter. They have been there for a few days. And they don't come off when I clean the front acrylic with a mag float magnet. I don't think it moves. Curious.
Eddie G

[Doug1]

Are thy hard or gelatinous? Solid things usually arent translucent, but in a reef anything goes

[uurt]

Could they be egg cluster from a snail? I get small spirals, about the size of a pin head, straightened out they are approx 3/16" long. The curl around once and are hard. I leave them on the end and back since I can't get there to see in the tank anyway.

HTH - Lee

[Eddie G]

I can't reach them with my hand. But I touched them with a piece of thin, plastic, rigid tubing used for airstones etc. And they felt hard with that.
Eddie G

[uurt]

Mine can be scraped off, but I just figure what the hell, let'em be, they aint hurtin nuthin yet.
Lee

[Eddie G]

I'm pretty sure they aren't egg clusters from snails. Each one is about the size of a small drop or maybe the size of 1/2 drop like the drops used in test kits. They are overlapping each other a little. It kink of looks like it you put 4 drops of crazy glue on a piece of glass. But there are the pin sized white dots inside some of them. Originally I said two didn't have any dots. But one of those looks like it has 1 even smaller sized extra tiny white dot. And the other has about 6 of the even smaller extra tiny while sized dots along it's edge. They are so small it looks like a very thin white line along the edge of the clear circle.
It also reminds me of when you see them look at a drop of water through a microscope on tv. But nothing is moving. If they do move at all it will take days to notice the movement.
Eddie G

[Eddie G]

I'm sure I could scrape mine off with a scraper. I remember seeing these back in 98 when I first got into salt water. I use to think it was the start of the coraline that was always growing on my acrylic sides. But the coraline grows without these forming first. I don't ever remember seeing them in any of the books, magazines, or internet sites. I think they would eventually get scraped off the acrylic by wife in the past. This is the first time I'm seeing them since I moved and became interested in the tank again. Just curious.
Eddie G

[uurt]

Is a pic a possibility? I need to do some of mine also, but the boss took the dig cam to Mammoth. He thought he was going fishing and it turned into a ski trip.

[Eddie G]

A picture would be doubtful. The total for the 4 of them is only about 1/4" by 1/4". My son has a digital camera in Michigan. So I might be able to try and get a picture in a couple weeks. I don't know if it would show up well on his camera. Since these don't seem to be rare on my tank, I was hoping someone else knew what they were to put an end to my ignorance and curiousity.
Eddie G

[Eddie G]

I found out what they are. They areStrombus Grazers eggs. I bought the Strombus Grazes from IPs\SF. Below is the site where I found them. This site shows a drawing of them.

http://www.ipsf.com/strombusfaqs.html

Eddie G

[Junkzoo]

Ah-ha Eddie, Snail eggs,,,,, just as us TRT detectives thought

[Eddie G]

All of you were right again. But I never seen any of these hatch. I remember a couple years ago I had these same snail eggs. But that must have been after the first time I ordered the Strombus Grazers from IPSF.

[MontanaRocknReefer]

Right on about being Strombus Snail Eggs from IPSF!! I have several of these on my glass and they come and go!!