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b e asked in EnvironmentOther - Environment · 1 decade ago

eggs in swimming pool?

I have a question about something that looks like eggs attached to the walls of my inground swimming pool. (I cannot take a picture because they are underwater and disintegrate when touched). They are about the size of the tip of a pen and are red, attached to the side walls and in the crease where the side liner meets the bottom. There are several thousand, if not millions of them. We regularly rescue frogs from out of the pool, but they don't resemble any pictures of frog eggs that I've seen online. I'd love to know what the heck they are!

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  • 1 decade ago
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    since they're small, they could be insect eggs, like eggs for water insects.

  • 1 decade ago

    They're certainly not frog eggs.

    I suspect they are not actually eggs, but more likely to be an algae.

    Haematococcus is a type which causes a red encrustation, but each individual is very small, so thats possibly not the candidate here.

    They could be the eggs of an aquatic invertebrate, but without an image, its hard to tell which species.

    You could just wait and see if they hatch into anything!

  • 1 decade ago

    Eggs don't disintegrate when touched. My bet is colonies of some unicellular organism - fungi, bacteria, maybe red algae. If you are trying to keep a sterile pool environment, you need to do a better job of cleaning and disinfecting.

  • may
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    it could smash... because of floor stress... no rely who or what's contemporary interior the water to interrupt it... in area because of height... as a result the fee. in area because of result. As shown by using MythBuster ... whilst they dropped a dummy from a definite height (somewhat severe), its palms and legs have been dislocated.. even whilst they repeated the try with a hammer breaking the floor stress basically beforehand of the dummy touchdown, the same effect replace into reported!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Frog or toad eggs.

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