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30-07-2010, 04:19 PM
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| | | newbie ! unknown pond alien :O) ?
Hey everyone  i just joined this website after trying to google search a small alien in my pond lol .....
I moved house one year ago and afew months after moving in i noticed frogs hopping around my garden even though there is no water near us.. my kitty loves frogs she lays on the grass watching them hop about for hours so i thought i would dig a small pond for them to have a little swim in .... the pond is about 1 meter long buy 40cm wide and it is lined with plastic sheeting. The pond has been in now about 2 month and it has around 10 frogs visit it each day ranging in size and colour .. i noticed though about 2 weeks ago it was filled with tiny black thin creatures they remind me of hammer head sharks as there body is thin and there head seems to go across there are hundreds of them now just bobbing around on the surface of the water not sure what they are ??
the other thing is yesterday i noticed i now have some strange whitish clearish creatures there is only about 6 of them at the moment but they look horrid the seems to crawl like a caterpiller across the bottom off the pond or on the few oxygenating plants i popped in there they have a very long thin spike of a tail and when they swim they dont swim straight they wiggle all over the place ! .. i scooped on up in a pink bowl and tried to take a photo of it excuse my camera shot im not very good  
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30-07-2010, 04:22 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Southampton
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| | | Re: newbie ! unknown pond alien :O) ?
Hi Daisy
It looks like Hoverfly larvae/Rat-tailed maggot.
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30-07-2010, 04:33 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Gloucestershire
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| | | Re: newbie ! unknown pond alien :O) ?
Hello Daisy,
The little black things are probably mosquito larvae.
Hope you enjoy your froggies!
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30-07-2010, 04:38 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: Jul 2010
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| | | Re: newbie ! unknown pond alien :O) ?
thanks guys !!! .. are any of them harmfull to my frogs do you know ? should i do something to get rid of them ?? there all ready taking over the little pond if they carry on at this rate ill have hundreds of the creepy wiggly things lol 
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30-07-2010, 05:23 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2008
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| | | Re: newbie ! unknown pond alien :O) ?
If I remember rightly the long spiky 'tail' is the critters 'schnorkel' and they will not harm the frogs, the reverse I should say. You will not need to do anything they will grow and eventually fly off. (type rattailed maggot into wiki for a small horror story - enjoy )
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30-07-2010, 08:08 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Romford, Essex
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| | | Re: newbie ! unknown pond alien :O) ?
Yep a rat tailed maggot. Just eats the detrius of the pond bottom. That snorkel tail its rather cleaver as it can extend and shrink depending on how deep the water is! | | |
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