Rock Snot

**layoutshooter** · 06-30-2009, 01:55 PM

Look back a couple of posts, I have a link to some info on it.

**wellarmed** · 06-30-2009, 02:43 PM

I helped some Biologist friends in Va. one spring to to build fish habitat they started using old Christmas trees cabled together and anchored down hoping to draw bait fish but it was soon covered with slime which could have very well been rock snot or in this case tree snot. We also used some hardwood brush from the trails the Parks Service were building at Hungry Mother Lake,these were very successful and still are many years later.

**inkasnana** · 06-30-2009, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by layoutshooter

This particular algae used to only grow in COLD, CLEAR nutriante poor waters. This is a deveation from what it did prior. Warming is the OPPOSITE of it's normal behavior. Either we are cooling faster then we thought we were or there has been something else change here.

Just a wild, out-there theory here, but maybe the stuff just never had a way to migrate and flourish in other areas until it was introduced by what ever means to the warmer water. Excuse me if I'm just showing my ignorance on the subject, but did any of these biologists or scientists ever try getting the stuff to grow in any other type of environment? If they did then my theory is useless and so is my post.

**layoutshooter** · 06-30-2009, 08:02 PM

Originally Posted by inkasnana

Just a wild, out-there theory here, but maybe the stuff just never had a way to migrate and flourish in other areas until it was introduced by what ever means to the warmer water. Excuse me if I'm just showing my ignorance on the subject, but did any of these biologists or scientists ever try getting the stuff to grow in any other type of environment? If they did then my theory is useless and so is my post.

I have not read anything to suggest that they are trying to grow it. Not a bad thought. As to methods of introduction it is likely that the method as always existed. Migratory birds often move species from one area to the next. Frog eggs and some fish eggs are very sticky and when ducks, geese or wading shore birds get those eggs on themselves and then fly to a new area they move those eggs with them. I can see that happening in this case. I can't say for sure but it would be my best guess.

**inkasnana** · 06-30-2009, 08:34 PM

So it could be possible that it always had the ability to thrive and grow in other environments but had just never been introduced into that environment until.. well.. until it was! It's just some off the cuff thinking here.

**layoutshooter** · 06-30-2009, 11:16 PM

Originally Posted by inkasnana

So it could be possible that it always had the ability to thrive and grow in other environments but had just never been introduced into that environment until.. well.. until it was! It's just some off the cuff thinking here.

Yep, species move on their own all the time. Just remember that nature is slow. We are STILL seeing results of the last ice age as species SLOWLY move north as the warming continues. North/South movement is easier since water is the key and a large percentage of rivers run north/south.