What Is This? Green Egg-Like Balls...

[trojannemo]

hey guys. while doing my water change today i noticed 4 green egg-like capsules on the top side of my jungle valisneria. 3 of them were about 2.5mm across, on the same leaf spaced out. the 4th one was about 1mm only on another leaf.
my first reaction was "eggs!" but then i quickly realized that none of my fish lay green eggs, and eggs wouldn't be different sizes either.
what is this? online search made it sound like bubble algae, but i thought this was only for saltwater tanks?
any clue what they were?

thanks

 

[MBOU]

I would say eggs!! I have a huge Whiptail sitting on eggs that look like that! What fish have you got?

 

[Dogson]

Hmm unsure on this but on googling it and looking on rival Fish forums the answer coming out seems to be that they are Shrimp eggs! Without knowing your Tank stock though....

A quote "Ghost shrimp spawn readily — and often — in the aquarium. It’s common to see females carrying masses of 20 to 30 pinhead-sized, green eggs between the swimmerets underneath their tails. The swimmerets paddle to bring oxygen to the eggs, which hatch in about three weeks. At that time, the female will use her swimmerets to disperse the baby shrimp into the water column. But you should not expect to be successful raising the babies. Young ghost shrimp go through a larval form. They are very tiny and free-swimming. They don’t even have legs yet — they have swimmerets (padlike appendages on the underside of the tail) that help them swim. The larvae live in the water column, eating infusoria and microscopic plankton for a few days, before molting and settling down as miniature shrimp. Because of this, any ghost shrimp youngsters not eaten by fish will starve in aquariums — which are much too clean to provide sufficient food. Power filters can also be murder, literally, to young ghost shrimp.

 

[trojannemo]

I would say eggs!! I have a huge Whiptail sitting on eggs that look like that! What fish have you got?

i have rainbowfish, angelfish, bluefin killifish (wild caught so i'm highly doubting they spawned) and a lone albino bristlenose pleco.

Hmm unsure on this but on googling it and looking on rival Fish forums the answer coming out seems to be that they are Shrimp eggs! Without knowing your Tank stock though....

i've had many shrimp with eggs and these were not shrimp eggs. shrimp eggs are much smaller and a duller color. these were much bigger, bright neon green and has that indentation you see in the hand picture.

so...eggs from what? i know my rainbowfish and angelfish dont lay eggs that are green...the eggs are frankly too big to be killifish eggs...and i dont think the bristlenose would lay green eggs?

 

[GuppyGoddess]

I found similar in my tank that only has guppies and pygmy cories. The green little things were surrounded by a jelly-like substance. At first I thought it was kunk so I scooped it out, then realized it could be eggs! Obviously they were not from my guppies and pygmy cories, from what I read, have beige eggs. . .so I vaccumed them out since they probably weren't anything that would result in baby fish.

Yours look different since they are attached to the leaves. If you want babies, might as well see what happens. If you don't, wipe them off.