Pond creatures
 

I brought some pond plants inside to start my planted aquarium. They're
starting to look pretty good, but I've just started to notice some critters
on the Hornwort. This will eventually be a community tank and GF vegetable
farm. So I have to kill off all the critters.

They are small brown balls (sort of curled up) where the leaves of the plant
meet the stem of the plant. What are these, snails?

Pinging the Snail Queen! :)

TIA

Bill wrote
They are small brown balls (sort of curled up) where the leaves of the plant
meet the stem of the plant. What are these, snails?

I do believe they are snail poop.
You can do the poor man's microscope.
Use a white dish, a maginifying glass and a flashlight to get a real good look
at it, them.


kathy :-)
3000 gallon pond
800 gallon frog bog
home of the watergardening labradors
zone 7 SE WA state

Bill wrote
They are small brown balls (sort of curled up) where the leaves of the plant
meet the stem of the plant. What are these, snails?

I do believe they are snail poop.
You can do the poor man's microscope.
Use a white dish, a maginifying glass and a flashlight to get a real good look
at it, them.


kathy :-)
3000 gallon pond
800 gallon frog bog
home of the watergardening labradors
zone 7 SE WA state

"Ka30P" wrote in message
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Bill wrote
They are small brown balls (sort of curled up) where the leaves of the
plant
meet the stem of the plant. What are these, snails?

I do believe they are snail poop.
You can do the poor man's microscope.
Use a white dish, a maginifying glass and a flashlight to get a real good
look
at it, them.

Snail Turds! :)

Funnny, I don't recall seeing them before. I don't think I have snails?

How big should these things be Kathy? They're range in size from the tip of
a pencil to the size of a BB.

Thanks.

"Ka30P" wrote in message
...
Bill wrote
They are small brown balls (sort of curled up) where the leaves of the
plant
meet the stem of the plant. What are these, snails?

I do believe they are snail poop.
You can do the poor man's microscope.
Use a white dish, a maginifying glass and a flashlight to get a real good
look
at it, them.

Snail Turds! :)

Funnny, I don't recall seeing them before. I don't think I have snails?

How big should these things be Kathy? They're range in size from the tip of
a pencil to the size of a BB.

Thanks.

Hmmm, well if you don't have snails....
Do you have access to a magnifying glass and flashlight? Let's get a good luck
at these.
I think the thing you should be worried about is if these things eat plants
since I think your OP said you were going to grow the plants indoors over the
winter?
There are many pond critters that just eat detritus.
Anyway if you can isolate a couple of these things with some plant matter and
then watch to see what they do...
Let us know!
(This is one of my favorite things to do, bring in odd and strange things and
see what happens!)


kathy :-)
3000 gallon pond
800 gallon frog bog
home of the watergardening labradors
zone 7 SE WA state

Hmmm, well if you don't have snails....
Do you have access to a magnifying glass and flashlight? Let's get a good luck
at these.
I think the thing you should be worried about is if these things eat plants
since I think your OP said you were going to grow the plants indoors over the
winter?
There are many pond critters that just eat detritus.
Anyway if you can isolate a couple of these things with some plant matter and
then watch to see what they do...
Let us know!
(This is one of my favorite things to do, bring in odd and strange things and
see what happens!)


kathy :-)
3000 gallon pond
800 gallon frog bog
home of the watergardening labradors
zone 7 SE WA state

"Ka30P" wrote in message
...

Hmmm, well if you don't have snails....
Do you have access to a magnifying glass and flashlight? Let's get a good
luck
at these.
I think the thing you should be worried about is if these things eat
plants
since I think your OP said you were going to grow the plants indoors over
the
winter?
There are many pond critters that just eat detritus.
Anyway if you can isolate a couple of these things with some plant matter
and
then watch to see what they do...
Let us know!
(This is one of my favorite things to do, bring in odd and strange things
and
see what happens!)

I think they might be fly larvae.

They've got two body parts. a very small head and a larger body. Surrounded
by a bubble of oxygen. I can actually see them moving along the stems of the
Hornwort if I wait long enough.

Bill wrote I think they might be fly larvae.
They've got two body parts. a very small head and a larger body. Surrounded
by a bubble of oxygen. I can actually see them moving along the stems of the
Hornwort if I wait long enough

This reminds me of some caddis fly larva that I think I had in my filter a
couple of years ago. They don't eat plants but they might hatch indoors with
the warmer temperatures. If they are hard to round up you could cover the
aquarium (or container) with a double layer of netting to keep them from flying
around the house.




kathy :-)
3000 gallon pond
800 gallon frog bog
home of the watergardening labradors
zone 7 SE WA state

"Ka30P" wrote in message
...
Bill wrote I think they might be fly larvae.
They've got two body parts. a very small head and a larger body.
Surrounded
by a bubble of oxygen. I can actually see them moving along the stems of
the
Hornwort if I wait long enough

This reminds me of some caddis fly larva that I think I had in my filter a
couple of years ago. They don't eat plants but they might hatch indoors
with
the warmer temperatures. If they are hard to round up you could cover the
aquarium (or container) with a double layer of netting to keep them from
flying
around the house.

We had a few damsel flies flitting around the house for the winter last
year. LOL.

BV.

"Ka30P" wrote in message
...
Bill wrote I think they might be fly larvae.
They've got two body parts. a very small head and a larger body.
Surrounded
by a bubble of oxygen. I can actually see them moving along the stems of
the
Hornwort if I wait long enough

This reminds me of some caddis fly larva that I think I had in my filter a
couple of years ago. They don't eat plants but they might hatch indoors
with
the warmer temperatures. If they are hard to round up you could cover the
aquarium (or container) with a double layer of netting to keep them from
flying
around the house.

We had a few damsel flies flitting around the house for the winter last
year. LOL.

BV.

Oh How neat, BV! I wish had some pretty damsel flies in the house :(

Nedra
"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
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"Ka30P" wrote in message
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Bill wrote I think they might be fly larvae.
They've got two body parts. a very small head and a larger body.
Surrounded
by a bubble of oxygen. I can actually see them moving along the stems
of
the
Hornwort if I wait long enough

This reminds me of some caddis fly larva that I think I had in my filter
a
couple of years ago. They don't eat plants but they might hatch indoors
with
the warmer temperatures. If they are hard to round up you could cover
the
aquarium (or container) with a double layer of netting to keep them from
flying
around the house.

We had a few damsel flies flitting around the house for the winter last
year. LOL.

BV.

"Ka30P" wrote in message
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Hmmm, well if you don't have snails....

[snip]

Well I've got snails NOW, hundreds of snails.

How big do these things get?

They've got a translucent bronze shell, white head and dark brown rear. The
biggest is about 3/16" long (so far).

Time to find a community fish who likes snails.

"Ka30P" wrote in message
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Hmmm, well if you don't have snails....

[snip]

Well I've got snails NOW, hundreds of snails.

How big do these things get?

They've got a translucent bronze shell, white head and dark brown rear. The
biggest is about 3/16" long (so far).

Time to find a community fish who likes snails.

Bill wrote How big do these things (snails) get?

Depends on the snail and I'm not very good at telling which kind are which.

Robyn has a good snail page
http://www.fishpondinfo.com/snail.htm

In my pond koi love snails.



kathy :-)
3000 gallon pond
800 gallon frog bog
home of the watergardening labradors
zone 7 SE WA state