Gelatin like object in greenlick?

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2014/03/02 23:43:59 (permalink)

Gelatin like object in greenlick?

It was '98 or '99 and I was a fifteen year old kid fishing the shallow end of greenlick with my brother and grandmother. I found this weird object about 2 feet from the shore. I grabbed a big stick and pulled in to the shore. It was heavy and it took aome effort to get it moved. It was solid, in the shape of a mushroom cap, about 12"-14" in diameter, transparent, gelatin like, and covered in bumps. Not sure if it was a living object or not. Sorry i have no pics. Im just wondering if anyone else has ever seen such a thing and if so...what the hell was it?

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    Sujie
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    Re: Gelatin like object in greenlick? 2014/03/03 05:20:17 (permalink)
    Couldn't find you any pictures, but it sounds like a "biomass". Collections of lake organisms. I see them in Lake Arthur a lot.
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    Re: Gelatin like object in greenlick? 2014/03/03 06:34:36 (permalink)
    Found the same type of gelatin mass at Greenlick a few years back. In fact there were two of them about the size of large soft balls and the consistency of a jelly fish. When I first saw them I thought they were clear plastic bags filled with water cover with algae and dirt.

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    Re: Gelatin like object in greenlick? 2014/03/03 09:03:53 (permalink)
    I've seen them before...can't specifically recall any local, but many years ago, I was camping up in the Adirondacks, and the pond we were camped on had several of these among the fallen timber that lined the opposite shore.  Strange, alien-looking things, but iirc, I looked them up and they're harmless...and actually an indicator of decent water quality.  Up there, they ranged in size from roughly a baseball to a basketball in size.
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    Re: Gelatin like object in greenlick? 2014/03/03 10:09:10 (permalink)
    Could it be a mass of eggs from some type of amphibian?
     
    Cold, is this what you researched? Bryozoan?
    http://woodwardadventures.blogspot.ca/2009/07/bryozoans-large-freshwater-gelatinous.html
     
    http://askanaturalist.com...-blob-under-my-dock-3/
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    Re: Gelatin like object in greenlick? 2014/03/03 10:25:14 (permalink)
    Either frog eggs or a tax rock.
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    Re: Gelatin like object in greenlick? 2014/03/04 09:19:10 (permalink)
    In the winter it's not frogs eggs and during the spring and summer is when frogs mate and they hatch in a couple weeks I have seen the same thing in Guilford lake in Ohio during the early winter ite a biomass plus frogs eggs willhave little black dots in them
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    Re: Gelatin like object in greenlick? 2014/03/04 10:44:24 (permalink)
    I've seen these bryozoa in loyalhanna lake also.
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    Re: Gelatin like object in greenlick? 2014/03/04 13:09:37 (permalink)
    eyesandgillz
    Cold, is this what you researched? Bryozoan?
    http://woodwardadventures.blogspot.ca/2009/07/bryozoans-large-freshwater-gelatinous.html
     
    http://askanaturalist.com...-blob-under-my-dock-3/



    Yep.
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    Re: Gelatin like object in greenlick? 2014/03/04 13:43:25 (permalink)
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    Re: Gelatin like object in greenlick? 2014/03/04 18:37:15 (permalink)
    There's lots of them in Lake Arthur. Usually stuck to submerged trees.
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