Thread: Pond snails
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Old 31-03-2006, 09:16 AM posted to rec.ponds
Altum
 
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Default Pond snails

Snooze wrote:
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Sick fish - pelican or heron - infected snail - waterborne parasite.


I think you missed a step in there.

infected fish - heron - poop in water - infected snail - waterborne
parasite.


Yeah. Ewww. Another goes something like

infected fish - bird's throat - back in water while eating another
fish - infected snail - waterborne parasite - burrow into fish

Is that a weird lifecycle or what??? I'll stick to plain old sexual
reproduction, thanks. ;-)

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