Hi
I just registered here today, because last night my little girl came running into the house saying there were pink eggs on the wall of our pond! It's a cluster of about 40 or so with a few single stragglers under it, and the cluster is above the water line on the side of our plastic pond liner (we have a 250 gallon preformed plastic pond liner that we put in the ground, much to my hubby's joy!)
We recently bought 3 snails at a pet shop (yes, we actually bought snails) to the tune of $2.99 each, and they are lighter in color and about the size of a quarter or so, and they seem to like to hang out right at the water line.
So are these actually snail eggs, and what should we do with them? Are they Ok where they are? I don't want to get rid of them because I think it would be really neat for my little girl to watch them develop ....
I'm not even sure what type of snails we have, but from what I've read, I'm guessing they are Apple snails..
We also have a leopard frog that I bought at a pet store as a tadpole last year whom we've kept in the house over the winter in a frog habitat feeding him crickets so his name is Mr. Chub Chubs, and now he's out in the pond for the season. (I live in Minnesota, so our pond season is unfortunately very short).
We also have one Koi fish.
I really would appreciate any help and information I could get. This is only my 2nd summer of having a pond, and my first batch of possible snail babies!
Thanks again
They are apple snail eggs. See
http://www.applesnail.net for all you'd ever want to know about them. I also have a section on them at
http://www.fishpondinfo.com/snail2.htmYou don't have to do anything with them. They may or may not hatch in a month or so. If you find any babies this fall, bring them (and the adults) inside for winter as they are tropical snails that won't survive winter. When I had them the first year my pond was up (1997), I had eggs but I never saw any babies. I also wasn't told they were tropical and didn't know at the time so the half dozen adults died that first winter.