they are in a gelitan layer and the eggs are black and i have never seen compleatly black eggs like that to a fish also because i am a fisherman and a creek walker i guess you could say so i see them alot if you want me to get a bit more into it they are tree frog eggs because the toads lay tubes not globs. but if they are smaller then a dime i am talking bout the glob of eggs all of them when you found them then they cold be snails but the eggs look like they where a large mass am i correct