What is this on my back glass?

[abizzle117]

The tank is 5 months old. Two clowns, royal gramma, yellow watchman goby. Bunch of snails (cerith and astrea), 5 small hermits and a tuxedo urchin.

Are these some kind of eggs? Thank you.

 

[DDenny]

Looks like snail eggs probably the cerith

 

[abizzle117]

Looks like snail eggs probably the cerith

Thanks. Best to leave it alone or try and suck it out? Tank is only 36 gallon, would prefer not to be overrun with snails.

 

[DDenny]

I never remove mine. My dwarf cerith snails lay eggs all the time. If you have fish or other predators they will get eaten or possibly never hatch.

 

[abizzle117]

I never remove mine. My dwarf cerith snails lay eggs all the time.

Thank you! Appreciate it.

 

[PharmrJohn]

Looks like snail eggs probably the cerith

First thing I thought of. Snail eggs.

 

[Chris Bollich]

Snail eggs, shouldn’t hurt anything.

 

[dschuffert]

They look like snail eggs to me.

 

[FishOfHex]

Snail eggs. 99.9% of them will become food for the fish, nothing to worry about.

 

[kevgib67]

My ceriths have laid eggs on the glass dozens of times and I have never seen any of their offspring in my tank. I’ve never seen that many eggs.

 

[abizzle117]

Appreciate all the responses everyone! Good to know I'm likely not facing a full scale snail invasion of my tank.