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Eggs ID Help

Posted: Tue May 26, 2015 11:59 pm
by Tangfish
Anyone know what type of eggs these are? The whole mass was bobbing back and forth in the surge at around 10fsw at the Pipeline the other day. It might've been attached to the seagrass at one end, but was just coming loose. The whole mass was about an inch, maybe an inch and a half long.

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Re: Eggs ID Help

Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 12:07 am
by Tangfish
These ones also have me curious:

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They were quite tiny, and attached to some loose kelp. Some kind of nudi eggs maybe?

Re: Eggs ID Help

Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 6:52 am
by Jan K
I think you found:
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Re: Eggs ID Help

Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 12:08 pm
by Tangfish
Eureka, Jan!

I saw these two little guys not long after I saw that first egg mass:

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Are they Spotted Agiaja like those described in your first (awesome) post above?

And those opalescent nudi eggs are so cool. Now I will always recognize them.

Thank you so much!

Re: Eggs ID Help

Posted: Wed May 27, 2015 5:14 pm
by Jan K
Yes, you got nice shot of them trailing. It is still not know exactly why many of the slugs do it, just theories ....

Re: Eggs ID Help

Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 11:28 am
by Tangfish
Probably takes em a long time to find each other again once they get separated, with no eyes and only chemical scents to follow.

I can see them saying "now don't let go again this time or else it'll take another three days to find each other!"

Re: Eggs ID Help

Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 11:33 am
by Jan K
Good one :rofl:
"now don't let go again this time or else it'll take another three days to find each other!"