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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 |
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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. kathy :-) 3000 gallon pond 800 gallon frog bog home of the watergardening labradors zone 7 SE WA state |
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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. kathy :-) 3000 gallon pond 800 gallon frog bog home of the watergardening labradors zone 7 SE WA state |
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"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. |
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"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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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"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. |
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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. kathy :-) 3000 gallon pond 800 gallon frog bog home of the watergardening labradors zone 7 SE WA state |
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"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. |
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"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. |
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Oh How neat, BV! I wish had some pretty damsel flies in the house
Nedra "Benign Vanilla" wrote in message ... "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. |
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"Ka30P" wrote in message ... 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. |
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"Ka30P" wrote in message ... 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. |
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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 |
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