LakeOzarkTalk.com

LER · Joined: 18 Nov 2009 Posts: 17

Moss animal on PVC crappie beds. Called Bryozoa...harmles and Ameren says it is a sign of clean water as it won't grow in poluted water. Just hope Ameren does not require a permit for this stuff growing under my dock...LOL Click on download for pic.

kathi · Joined: 09 Sep 2006 Posts: 447 Location: 5 mm/O'Fallon MO

We have them all over our dock too. Saw them for the first time a few years ago. Very odd looking especially growing like that on your crappie bed pipes.

Huey · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 1244 Location: Indep / 45MM

we have had them plug up the air hole in the lift tanks. has to take a putty knofe and scrap it out. Shocked

Jack · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 2590 Location: Saint Peters, MO

Ok, Butch...let's hear it?

Butch · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:43 am Post subject:

Jack,
What do you want me to say?
I am trying to be a kinder, gentler person.
Do I need to spend more time around you?

the ghost · Joined: 17 Apr 2006 Posts: 1591 Location: St. Louis/26mm

A little egg and breading and they go good with sausage.

Brent

Butch · Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:42 am Post subject:

Brent,
But, I can't eat pork. Are they good with bacon too? Confused

Jack · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 2590 Location: Saint Peters, MO

I was thinking more along the lines "it happens......?

Jack · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 2590 Location: Saint Peters, MO

[quote="Butch"]Brent,
But, I can't eat pork. Are they good with bacon too? Confused

[/quote]

looks like ham hocks and beans...however, if you are looking for a "pork" free menu. I mean, bryazoa and beans just doesn't have the marketing ring we are looking for here. On the other hand, combine this "thing" with some vodka and cherry flavoring and you have Gina's "jello" shots. I could be wrapped up in some sort of free association moment here...which makes me think of Dan and "teal" and some good times past.

smitty · Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 235

They are toxic as hell.

I had a fish cage that one grew on and I washed it off with a hose but there were still some small remnants on the wire cage. I caught 5 fish and put them in the cage and they all died within an hour.

Jack · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 2590 Location: Saint Peters, MO

Smitty, did you forget to put the cage back in the water?

smitty · Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 235

I don't remember.

Griz · Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2010 9:52 pm Post subject:

if fish could eat them they'd be gone. No?

Jack · Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 2590 Location: Saint Peters, MO

[quote="Griz"]if fish could eat them they'd be gone. No?[/quote]

Well, using that logic, fish don't eat "stupid" or the lake would be a lot cleaner and much less populated. Fish don't eat algae much either...well, except for the Asian Carp, and we know where that leads...lots of things fish won't eat...but they are smart whereas people are...?

smitty · Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 235

Read the last sentence

http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/conn.river/bryozoa.html

After I scrapped and washed the jelly type egg substance and thoroughly hosed off the fish cage I put the fish in it and within an hour they swelled up and turned a spooky looking, blotchy, greyish pale blue.

I'm telling you they are highly toxic. To fish at least.