Today I came home and went to feed the fish. And this is what I found stuck to the edge of the pond, looks like a cacoon of some sort? I know that it looks like something I've seen in those sci-fi movies only in a much smaller scale :0.
Please let me know if you recognize it, would like to know if I should let it be or if it could be harmful to the fish. It has been raining a lot all day here too.
Thank you so much in advance.
~Dulci
Another shot...
Never seen one before? It almost looks like a glob of eggs?
It looks like an egg sack but from what??? BEV
Snail eggs of some sort. Not sure which snail.
http://www.applesnail.net/content/photos/photo_eggs_1.htm
Snapple, my guess was the same....not apple snails, but some sort of snail ( I could be way off track, but great minds think alike!)
:)
I have had river snails in my ponds for 20 years but they have live babies. BEV
Thank you guys, snapple the pics on that link are very similar to what I found. And yes I do have two snails I got at the pet store. So that explains it. I, however doubt that the blob of eggs will make it through the cycle; my lil' pond gets visited by all kinds of birds that drink from it and also eat any bugs they see.
Thanks, you are all so wonderful!
~dulci
I get something like that in my garden and have no snails-I always thought they were spider eggs.
Mothermole I read that sometimes they dont hatch or are infertile. I wouldn't mind if they dont hatch, the idea of having 20 snails in my lil' pond kind of makes me nervous. LOL
dragonfly, have you had any trouble with your snails in all this time? I find the two I have in there now are good at cleaning the green slime.
I have had no trouble with them and if they get over populated I just gather them and take some over to my nieghbor's big pond but the koi eat all of them over there. Yes they do help keep the pond clean. I have never had any trouble with murky water since mine is in three quaters shade. My water stays clear. I don't use chemicals salt or filters. BEV River snails are also called trapdoor snails.
