fresh water jellyfish pic

[NJ219bands]

Turnmill Pond in the Collier's Mills Wildlife Management Area is loaded with fresh water jellyfish (Bryozoa). I took a pic of 2 on 4/9/2015 before catching and releasing 3 pickerel.

[Reelron]

You sure some quack didn't dump all his defective implants there?

[Eskimo]

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Actually I did that.
Taco Bell never sits well with me.


I usually see Bryozoa in the late summer and fall. Could that actually be some type of gelatinous egg mass from fish or frogs?



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[Walleyed]

Not to get all technical and chit, but those are actually freshwater sponges.

New Jersey Freshwater Sponge

[acabtp]

i see those up in the highlands region lakes quite a bit

[lennysky]

The only true freshwater jellyfish live in some remote crater lake I believe in Guatemala.

[Walleyed]

No Lenny...these, as well as all sponges, belong to the phylum Porifera. They are just as much a true sponge as the ones we used to wash our cars with.

[lennysky]

Walleyes wisherman, you did not read my post. I said true freshwater jellyfish (free swimming) are basically not known to this part of the world. I don't know what this jelatinous mass is from the picture.

[Walleyed]

My apologies, I read your post to quickly. You are correct to the best of my knowledge.

[Walleye Willie]

Free swimming freshwater jellyfish (Craspedacusta sowerbii) are common this region and throughout North America, but are only about 1" in diameter. I have seen & collected samples in small ponds.