I am in the process of fixing a leak in our pond, and transferred the plants and fish from the pond into a holding tank. As I was moving some rocks, I found a small blob of eggs attached to the underside of a rock, near the surface of the water.
The eggs were perfectly clear and round, about 2mm across, and numbered about 20 in the mass. They were all loosely attached to one another in a ball and not in a sac.
The only animals in the pond (which is only a couple months old) are two gold fish and two shebunkins. The GF have been in there from the start, and the shebunkins got added last week.
We are in a suburb just south of Vancouver, BC, Canada, and the summer has been hot and dry. We have numerous ditches in the area, and frogs are very common. Another forum member thought that the eggs may be salamander or newt, but I didn't think we had those up here.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Doc
if the fish are young i would say green frog eggs.
My first thought was minnow eggs but you don't have those. Then, I thought of snail eggs but they are like jelly globs. Are the eggs single (but together) or are they attached in the same mass of jelly? Are they truly attached to the rock meaning, if gently touched, they don't come off? If so, that rules out amphibian and goldfish eggs. Frog eggs float normally. Salamanders and newts breed in late winter and early spring and make large masses of eggs. The eggs are a bit big to be insect eggs but that's possible. You can always keep the eggs in a container of water and see what hatches.
My egg identification page -
http://www.fishpondinfo.com/egg.htm Thanks for the responses...
The eggs were really attached to the rock, as they had to be gently pried off. And they are all attached together in the mass, but look like they singletons all somehow stuck together.
I think I 'll put them in a seperate tank and see what hatches
Let us know. I am stumped.