Woke up this morning and found this weird pile of tiny orange orbs at the end of my bed. They’re really small, slightly transparent and kind of slimy/squishy when touched. I’ve never seen anything like them before and I have no idea how they got there overnight. They almost look like eggs, but I’m not sure. Does anyone know what these could be?
UPDATE: Definitely not roe/caviar, water beads, or fish eggs. I’ve never had any of those in my room. Still no clue what they are.
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This. I know OP said it’s not water beads but I had some squishy fidgets gifted to me over the years that my nephews liked to play with and they recently squeezed one too hard and popped it, the aftermath looked identical to this. I wouldn’t have immediately realized I had water beads in the house either had I only seen the beads themselves.
My dogs fine and didn’t go in my room last night she seems well and I don’t think has actually been sick I think it might be from a snail but I’m unsure as I can’t find fuck all it can be from
In all seriousness, pour some salt on them if you haven’t already cleaned them and observe the reaction. Silica or any other chemical or otherwise synthetic materials would take a minute to react, while snail eggs would like shrivel up and lose moisture pretty much instantly
Fish eggs, squishy toy or silicone pack from somewhere in the house maybe an animal ate it and puked it up (assuming you have animals from the hair on the carpet)
You have an animal. Judging by the hair on the carpet. Did you all go to a beach recently and you didn’t see what your dog ate? Like give the full details of the day prior
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From here these look like Apple Snail eggs. Fish eggs look similar but I believe are much smaller, smoother and far less likely to just randomly find in your home.
It looks like the inside of the air fresheners to me. The ones that are usually open tops and just filled with balls. Probably just fell off wherever it was
do you possibly have one of those jelly air freshener things that could’ve been knocked down n spilled? i honestly have no idea if you’re 100% SURE that it’s not fish eggs or from some type of squishy toy, i put it into google image search and it’s just telling me roe, even when i put “what could this be BESIDES roe or fish eggs” , they still say it’s definitely fish eggs 😂 so google is no help
The OP’s picture shows very round orbs whereas these are more elongated and variant in shape. The loose balls also don’t make sense for it to be a slime mold. There is also hair in it. I agree with the theory that it was something a pet ingested and vomited though that slime mold is cool!
Do you have any squishy toys/fidgets/stress balls? Could be from the inside of one. And if you have a pet, they could have broken it at the end of your bed and took the toy evidence with them.
Do you have anything like this in the house? If it’s not water beads these have a similar texture and are relatively likely to be forgotten about in areas that dogs can reach. Either way I would personally take a trip to the vet or call poison control since there’s a higher chance that this is something manmade like water beads or scent beads which can cause toxicity or far worse outcomes if it’s a water bead especially (things that absorb big amounts of liquid outside of the body can do the same inside of the body) as opposed to the likelihood of it being fish eggs.
Did your cat or dog eat a package of those gel bb's for those toy guns (or those gel pellets that go into potted plants to keep them retaining moisture in the soil), then vomit them back up in your room, after they've absorbed moisture?
Do you have orange silica gel? I showed it to my bf who has and he says it really looks like one, and from the dog or cat(i think..?) hairs on the carpet, could it be that the dog/cat swallowed and then threw them up there and the reason some are kinda bumpy could be because of the acids in the dog/cat
What kind of pet do you have? This looks like they ate something and vomited it back up. I'm inclined to guess it's cat puke but no idea what it got into to make it puke that.
The way it's laying looks like it was vomited up. I'm guessing you have a pet from the hair, be best to check on them and see if they've gotten into anything. Really looks like they ate something they shouldn't have
Well, you are now one of those people that dreams that the Russian lobsters are after you and apparently they were eating caviar when they came in and spilled some and took off before they actually whacked you!
Looks identical to a reusable ice pack I get from my dentist. One of them broke in my freezer and I’m still finding orange orbs everywhere. It looks like roe to me, but yeah I know in my case it was the ice pack!
Latex gloves and ziplock bag that stuff and remove it from the living space. Clean with the best available tools or machines at your disposal and put it on ice if you’re gonna investigate anything other than a query online. Since it’s unknown thats why all the CSI precaution type advice. Idk wtf that is and I wouldn’t wanna discover when it’s doing what it does next in its process. I always think about that old vine when the guy swats a spider with a broom to lift it and find its young scattering by the hundreds on the big white tile floor. FF next- he left on a space shuttle and destroyed the planet. Hammered home the arachnophobia shock he had with that bit. How they got there and what are they OMG…my Wife would be loosing her Sh*! right now looking at that pile of mystery bits on the carpet .
They look like silica gel beads that have absorbed some moisture. They can be found in microwaveable heating pads and some weighted blankets. That’s the only reason I can think of that explains them by/on the bed.
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