In the last few days I have noticed small lumps of a jelly-like substance in my pond. Any ideas?
it's not frogspawn then?
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.
as picman said its most likley snail eggs if they on leaves, some pics would help identify it.
It's just clear lumps, biggest about 1cm across, floating in the water, not sticking to anything. ???
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.
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.
Water snails attach rings of eggs
If it is snail eggs, is that good or bad? ???
well some snails :) are good cos the eat a load of rubbish but you don't want to get over run with them