Re: Help with Identification – 10/09/07
Thank you for the quick response,
I've attached another photo, the round white dots are very small and its difficult to pick up on the photo. If you can't identify it would it be better to just remove them? Better safe than sorry??
Just one more question, with a 75 gallon tank how much daily water evaporation would you expect, it seems I have to top up around half a liter a day is this normal?
Thanks again
P.S. Yes the salt is 1.025 !!
<Hmm... very interesting. The pattern is odd, and reminds me more of fish eggs than, say, snail eggs. Snails tend to deposit their eggs in masses well after each partner has fertilised the other (snails being, largely, hermaphrodites); but fish lay them in rows, because they glide along the flat surface, the male following the female fertilising them. So I'd be tempted to leave them in place and see what happens. You could try and roll them off the glass into a floating breeding trap or something, if you were really worried. That works with some fish eggs quite well. If they are fish eggs, they should obviously have a developing embryo inside them. I may be barking completely up the wrong tree here of course, in which someone else at WWM will see the photos and tell us what they might be. There's no "normal" rate of evaporation: it depends on air movement, air temperature, air pressure, ambient humidity, movement of the water, and all sorts of other factors. In other words, "it is what it is" and all you can do is top up the water loss each day (or however often you do it). Were the two little fish Scats? Cheers, Neale> 

Re: Help with Identification – 10/09/07
Thank you again Neale,
The two fish were indeed scats, of the spotted variety.... was just reading up on them it seems they're a much more popular fresh water fish than marine fish which I guess is why I couldn't find any info on them as I was looking in the wrong place!
<They are really only temporary residents in freshwater, and ironically do much better in marine tanks than freshwater ones, despite being sold as freshwater fish. Enjoy they; they're lovely fish, and so long as they get lots of bulky plant foods, they'll be happy. Basically treat like a tang.>
As for the maybe fish eggs, being a bit of a pessimist I was a little worried that they may be parasites of some kind as I could find nothing similar on the web.
<Unlikely to be parasites. Parasites don't leave their eggs in the open (you've been watching too much 'Alien'!). Parasites tend to put their eggs inside something a host will eat, such as a smaller prey animal. So you can basically write off the idea these are parasites.>
I will keep a look out on your site to see if anybody can identify them. I will leave them where they are for now and see what happens.
<Indeed.>
Thanks for your time, let me know if you ever come to Bangkok and I will buy you a beer :)
<Hah!>
Kind regards
<Cheers, Neale>