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caroline7758

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Jelly in pond
« on: June 21, 2011, 20:47:02 »
In the last few days I have noticed small lumps of a jelly-like substance in my pond. Any ideas?
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Re: Jelly in pond
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2011, 21:15:21 »
it's not frogspawn then?
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Re: Jelly in pond
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2011, 21:27:53 »
Water snails attach rings of eggs in a firm jelly on the underside of leaves / weeds , as far as i can see they hatch into wiggly things that stick themselves to stones and then form a shell.
   
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Re: Jelly in pond
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2011, 22:32:06 »
as picman said its most likley snail eggs if they on leaves, some pics would help identify it.
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Re: Jelly in pond
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2011, 18:03:57 »
It's just clear lumps, biggest about 1cm across, floating in the water, not sticking to anything. ???
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Re: Jelly in pond
« Reply #5 on: June 26, 2011, 10:18:54 »
I'm seeing something similar but these are like sludge balls about 6cm across and a very dark green, almost black. When I fish them out with a net it's almost like mud but has a slight jelliness to it and a very strong smell. Nothing there that looks like eggs at all. It floats just below the top of the water and they've appeared randomly over the last few days.
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Re: Jelly in pond
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2011, 10:12:32 »
Just to add to this, in the last few days the pond is coming a lot clearer. I don't really know if this is related to these floating sludge balls but I guess it's not a coincidence.
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Re: Jelly in pond
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2011, 13:47:10 »
Water snails attach rings of eggs
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Re: Jelly in pond
« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2011, 20:43:12 »
If it is snail eggs, is that good or bad? ???
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Re: Jelly in pond
« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2011, 17:08:54 »
well some snails :) are good cos the eat a load of rubbish  but you don't want to get over run with them
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