Weird slime in pond

Kayleigh · #1 (**permalink**) 01-10-2011, 10:30 PM

I fished this foul smelling slime out of my pond today it was thick and hard to net.
I think its some things guts..
Any ideas..

Deb London · #2 (**permalink**) 01-10-2011, 10:31 PM

How big is it (and I feel sick

)?

Kayleigh · #3 (**permalink**) 01-10-2011, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Deb London

How big is it (and I feel sick

)?

It was about 2" long and made me heave it smelt that bad I removed it to the bushes with the net.

Deb London · #4 (**permalink**) 01-10-2011, 10:44 PM

Something with no bones, no exoskeleton, and two inches long that's no longer living, so maybe it drowned. Could it have been a slug?

Kayleigh · #5 (**permalink**) 01-10-2011, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Deb London

Something with no bones, no exoskeleton, and two inches long that's no longer living, so maybe it drowned. Could it have been a slug?

Could be, it looked like just innards slugs have a skin there was none.
It could have been bigger than 2" but slugs are big here lol
There are dead slugs in the pond all the time but they are only small 1" at the most.

Deb London · #6 (**permalink**) 01-10-2011, 10:56 PM

Urgghhhh - can't look at it any more, LOL.

jaelen · #7 (**permalink**) 01-10-2011, 11:48 PM

Oh my word, kayleigh- that's just awful... and a close-up, too!

I think it's a decaying slug- there was a huge one we fished out of our pond, (it wasn't quite as far gone as this, though!) and they do go all horrid and slimy.
Was this floating, or on the bottom of the pond? I can't help but laugh, it's so GROSS. I can't look any more, either.

Kayleigh · #8 (**permalink**) 02-10-2011, 01:33 PM

It was caught in the plants I was fishing out the duckweed when I saw what looked like cotton wool so got it in the net this when I realised it was slime.
I didn't see it the day before so I thought something had half finished its midnight snack I think it was bigger than 2" more like 4" but hard to tell.
God it did stink..