Today I found a gooey thing in my indoor water plant. I shook the bowl a bit and the goo ball slowly elongated… into an arrow head.
I figured out this must be a planarian / flatworm. I had never seen one of these guys before! There’s no chemicals in my plant, and the water is crystal clear. I guess it’s a vote of confidence that these guys are living in the water. They must have come from the (outdoor) pond where I was growing my other water garden.
I have two bowls. In the planarian one, there is parrot feather, duckweed, and fairy moss. And aphids on the parrot feather. I think I found a larval ladybug which I put on the bowl; hopefully that will do something.
The other bowl isn’t doing as well. The plant in it is a water hyacinth of some kind, which came with soil in the roots. It’s a floating plant. My mom got it for me and left it outside with no water, so when I got it, it was half-dead. It seems to be coming back. Unfortunately I left it outdoors for a couple days so now there is some kind of water thing living in it – I think mosquito larvae. The water is black and murky. I have to drain it and start over.