Tiny Little Snails?

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humbirdlover

The lady that I get my water plants from, gave me some duckweed in a baggy. I have it in a bowl with pond water, and today, I put it in a bigger container. Down in the bottom was some little tiny snails. Are they good or bad?
 

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They need air so they come to the surface often and no problems with the ones I have except they do eat the plants
 

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there is probably not many ponds without them...they seem to love the enviorment of a filter...i scoop them off the walls of my filter by the 100s at the waterline. they are prolific reproducers. theyre not really a problem..but trapdoor and other larger varieties are generrally preferred. trapdoor snails are also live bearers and reproduce far lesser numbers.
 
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K, thanks sissy and koiguy..Think I'll just leave them in the bowl then. I've been trying to keep the duckweed alive in a bowl, and give it to the fish as a treat:)
 

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my koi ate most of my trap door snails i caught aggie a couple of times and I see a couple of baby snails that are the trapdoor ones up by the water fall .
 
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I just have goldfish so might have to get some next Spring. I think I read where they are good algae eaters? Is there much that Koi won't eat, LOL I'll leave those to the larger ponds :) BTW, still debating over the screen, not sure what I want to do with it.
 

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I wonder if when you do the window screen sail adding strips of fabric to it in different spots would make it more stable .Or you could tie rope under and over it also and make it stronger
 
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I read instructions on a DIY shade sail, but ofcourse it was made out of fabric. It said make a template of the corners, and cut two thickness of fabric for each corner. Sew face to face, 2 sides, turn, and sew this over each corner for re enforcement. Then they used grommets. I could do this with heavy fabric, but afraid after all that work, it would still rip from the stress, flapping, etc. Sounds good for fabric but just not sure about screening. I think I need to think this out better. If the one side of the pond wasn't built like it is with the pavers, I could do like another idea I saw. They used water pipe, the bendable kind. You hammer pieces of rebar in the ground at an angle, and put the waterpipe down over them, to make arches. Then can use anything for the screening. Just make rod pockets, slip the whatever over the water pipe, and stick the waterpipe over the rebar?
 

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I made it out of the awning fabric and it worked good except it is always windy up here and it really flaps around and afraid it will cause damage to something on the house since it is so close to the gutter and down spout .I use rebar in the ground and put pipe over that for my vegetables .This way i can put cheese cloth over them to protect them from the hot sun .
 
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I made it out of the awning fabric and it worked good except it is always windy up here and it really flaps around and afraid it will cause damage to something on the house since it is so close to the gutter and down spout .I use rebar in the ground and put pipe over that for my vegetables .This way i can put cheese cloth over them to protect them from the hot sun .
Same principle as your veggie hit, then. I think I found enough pipe on hubby's scrap pile, might see how that works...Sooner or later, I'll come up with something, LOL I was looking at your pics again, and saw your shade fabric on your pond. Something so simple is giving me a headache, LOL
 

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I had to tie a rope from pipe to pipe on3 spots .I took them all down last month to move every thing to a new area for next year .
 

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