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Some kind of egg sack on my water irises.....I'm wondering if they are from my black mystery snails.....It says that usually they lay eggs underwater but that they have been known to lay them on land.....
It grosses me out and is cool to see all at the same time! It can't be a fish or the frog because it's up too high...but the snails could climb up there I guess.
I'm scared I'm gonna have 5,000 critters in this small pond....
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Ewwww that is so weird looking. Cannot wait to figure out what it is.
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Not a clue, but I am with Triss on the whole EWWWWWWWW thing. I am intrigued now though, your gonna have to keep us posted. Could it be bugs of some sort? Hubby walked by just now and said spider eggs? Could he be right?
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loz ~ I can't tell from your photo exactly, how PINK are these eggs? The picture does look pinkish to me.
If they are pink in real life, they may very well be eggs from Apple Snails. That is how those snails build their egg sacs together, and these are located in the right area. It question is the color of them?
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Check this out Loz. On the 2nd page is a pic of the snails moving inside the egg sacks. Apple Snail Eggs
So the question is, are you going to let them hatch? And also how many of these groupings are there?
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Okay, I'm with the snail thing .......But it seems they've been busy lately already....we found a few baby snails already in their tonight and this egg sac thing hasn't hatched yet.
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That is great Loz! Looks so big for a baby.
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Perhaps you may have missed an egg grouping?
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I might've missed one.....on the back of a leaf or something....there are 4 big snails in there, Mark pulled one out that was clinging to the pump and he said it was huge!
Triss, that is a close up........here it is pulled back a bit, it was pretty teeny and even this is zoomed in.
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What do the big ones look like? Do you have a current pic of one of them?
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ok good snail eggs, much better then what I was thinking! Ewwww spiders. Glad you got snails. In reading the web sight it says the color is not definite until the next day. Keep us updated.
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I never see the snails Triss, I guess they usually stay on the bottom. When we bought them they weren't big, but when Mark pulled that one out it scared him because it was so big.
And Karrie I'll keep you all updated....it would be neat if I got a pic of them hatching!
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Your black mystery snails are in the apple snail family! Remember when I got the golden mystery snails, and they were "doing their thing" the first night I had them? The female laid eggs, but nothing ever came of them and the parents died. They can get as big as apples - that's why they are called apple snails! I'd love to see a picture of the large one you have!
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quote: Mark said if you want he'll mail them to you in case they are your kids!
Yep...I can just hear him saying that! Tell him old people like him should be in bed by now!
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He said he thought people your age went to bed about 8:30pm, and that a young stud like himself was able to stay up until at least 10:30!
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Oh, man...next he's gonna be calling me "Granny"!
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He said, if the shoe fits wear it!
Now he said do you want him to call you granny or nana? Which do you prefer?
Don't blame me I'm the messenger...and I live with this jokester everyday of my life, it's nice he's picking on someone else!
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I was spraying water in the pond a while ago and knocked the eggs into the pond by accident....Hope they make it okay because I'm sure as heck not touching them!
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Well I guess we'll find out.....it's honestly the grossest looking thing.......
I should start selling them to the pet stores......I think I paid 1.50 for each of mine.
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loz - I really hope your eggs make it in the water. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but on the website, applesnail.net, under the "care" section, it says...
"It's important to keep the eggs in a moist, but not wet environment. Never keep these eggs under water (this will drown the embryos)! "
I really hope that at least a few make it for you. My fingers are crossed!
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Oh man, I hope they didn't die!
Then again who knows how many snails are already in the pond...when we drain it out it might be full of them!
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I have been looking for pond snails, but no one around here sells them..
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Well shoot, come fall when we make the pond bigger and drain it out I could send you some probably.........depending on how many I have in there.
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That would be wonderful..do they stay in the pond over winter?
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I guess it just depends on how deep your pond is, whether they make it or not..... I'm not sure...we are redoing our pond in the fall to make it at least 3 feet deep so we can overwinter the fish in it.
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I know, I couldn't believe it! I never thought I'd have something like that......I thought the snails just laid their eggs under the plants or something.
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It's funny to know how much you learn here eh?! I honestly thought they (snails) laid their eggs under a plant or something too! Well good luck them them... I'm pretty sure they might die... But if not, here's to selling them for $2 each at Wal Mart! (Afterall, you can claim the extra .50 cents on Emotional Distress!) Plants: 1275 | From: Western Canada | Registered: May 2006
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Ijust saw that pic and I'm telling you...they are LUCKY they aren't in my yard....(Idon'y have a pond yet) I would've RAN to get Doug to squish/remove that sac... EEEEEWWWWWWWW!! gave me the creeps just looking at it!!
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I'm not sure....I made a boo-boo and knocked it off by accident....I was putting water in the pond and hit it and the water pushed it off the plant. I guess when we drain the pond in the fall we'll see what happens.
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Another EWWWwwwwww!!! That egg sack looks yucky!
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Guess I'm out-numbered here. I think the egg sac is REALLY COOL!
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well lynne, i'm with you. but i wouldn't let scott move the dead tree limb that the garden spider anchored her egg sac in either!
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.......But it seems they've been busy lately already....we found a few baby snails already in their tonight and this egg sac thing hasn't hatched yet.
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I'm not sure...we are redoing our pond in the fall to make it at least 3 feet deep so we can overwinter the fish in it.
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