Comments on: Keeping the Blue Peter pond clean

By: Jeremy Biggs

Jeremy Biggs — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 09:08:56 +0000

Hi Everyone – if you’ve got any pictures of this jelly stuff, do send them to me (jbiggs@pondconservation.org.uk).
Jeremy

By: nina

nina — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 08:53:49 +0000

I too have exactly the same brown jelly but its quite dark and seems to have clear harder egg shapes in it. my pond is new and in a similar condition to Denise’s. it’s been appearing for several weeks now. Do you know what it could be?

By: Leonie

Leonie — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:55:01 +0000

did you get any pictures of the brown jelly?
I have clear jelly too and a yellowish kind in the shape of a slug as well as hundreds of newts eggs which were only laid recently – what are the first two and can I look forward to the pitter patter of lots of tiny feet?

By: Jeremy Biggs

Jeremy Biggs — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:02:11 +0000

Hi Denise – wonder if you’ve got any pictures of the brown jelly?

Jeremy

By: Denise

Denise — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:45:50 +0000

I, too, have been skimming off brown jelly for some weeks now. My pond is new – I dug it in March this year. No fish, no frogs, newts etc. Pond-skaters, a lot of damselfly activity earlier in the year, some snails introduced (from a pond where brown jelly is unknown) which seem to be growing well. Plants seem to be doing OK. No artifical aeration. Blanket weed builds up and I remove most of it. I have a bag of barley straw in there (which probably needs replacing). The brown jelly is definitely jelly-like to the touch, firm-ish. It doesn’t contain any clearly visible eggs. The more experienced pond person who gave me the snails suggested I googled “brown jelly” in a pond – but apart from Phillipa’s question, it doesn’t seem to google… Can we look into this a bit more?

By: Jeremy Biggs

Jeremy Biggs — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:42:59 +0000

Hi Phillipa – do you have any pictures of the jelly?

Send them to me and I’ll post them.

Jeremy

By: jenkinsp1

jenkinsp1 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 10:10:25 +0000

Help! I have a wildlife pond – no filter, no fish, just newts and frogs, and in the last two months i have found a horrible light brown jelly that bubbles on the surface of the water. I skim it off, and then a few weeks later, there it is again! Does anyone know what this is?

Philippa