Eggs ID Help

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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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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?
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I think you found:
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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!
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Yes, you got nice shot of them trailing. It is still not know exactly why many of the slugs do it, just theories ....
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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!"
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Good one :rofl:
"now don't let go again this time or else it'll take another three days to find each other!"
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