i ask cause i got home to my cleaner shrimp pair fighting over what i think is an egg sack, tried to get pics but that was a no go. it is spiral shaped light green in color. the clowns are black misbars.

my male hovers over the eggs and fans them with his fins

well the clowns are the only pair in there besides the cleaner shrimp, and they carry their eggs in their tail fins.

clown eggs dont look like spirals. They look like this:

http://www.sparklingfloorservice.com/melevsreef/pics/0105/clowns_n_eggs.jpg

okay not clown eggs, not sure what they were then.

Mine bite the heck out of me when they have eggs. Its how I can always tell.

Great pic Jeremy....

thats how I know when I have eggs in my tank.. my clowns start biting

great pic jeremy....
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Not my pic. Stolen. Guilty

I was thinking great pic too! Still a great pic who ever took it. My Ocellaris eggs never look that orange. They are mostly gray/black when they lay them and they turn silvery when they are about to hatch out. Just wondering if those are percs in the picture and maybe the egg color is different?

Ill try to find pics of my perc eggs. They look just like that when laid so it might be a breed characteristic Bob.

what are the differences between ocellaris and percula clowns?

My Cinnamons never stop biting, they just draw blood when they have eggs.
The rest are pretty docile. They just stand between my hand and the nest.
Egg color is largely diet controlled. However, given that thought, my Ocelaris eggs are always dark, Maroons are sort of maroon (go figure), Clarks are kind of yellowish and the Cinnamon eggs are orange. They all have the same diet.
John