They feed on tiny invertebrates, and during droughts, encase themselves in mud beneath the pond bottom.
She was lost beneath the surface for thirty minutes before her parents found her on the pond bottom and pulled her up.
Eggs are laid singly or in small masses of 6-10 eggs on debris at pond bottom.
That is why rippling water waves distort the view of a pond bottom, for instance.
The tree, the grass, the mud of the pond bottom were all freeze-dried and dead.
At the same time remove any excess debris that has accumulated on the pond bottom.
In the winter, it hibernates on pond bottoms.
But she was lost beneath the surface for thirty minutes before they finally found her on the pond bottom.
The dust rose up in a great soft cloud and went away toward the horizon, leaving the pond bottom covered with otherworldly junk.
They lay them among vegetation or on the pond bottom.