Tadpoles!!!!!!

The_Bargain_Hunters

Hi, I have a garden pond and this year for some strange reason it is still full of tadpoles! A few people I know also have ponds and have noticed this, and one of my friends children have some in a tank and are waiting patiently to see them turn into frogs, does anyone know why, is it the weather or some kind of mutation?:cool:

We do have a few tiny baby frogs around but there are still hundreds more tadpoles!:o

dougk_2

Perhaps you had more than one laying of tadpoles so they may not be as advances as the others? You could still have a month (ish to go) before they have finished there transformation.

twink

i have plenty of little frogs and the rest are coming on too, i throw small amounts of cat food to them every day, dont know if that helps

The_Bargain_Hunters

dougk wrote:

Perhaps you had more than one laying of tadpoles so they may not be as advances as the others? You could still have a month (ish to go) before they have finished there transformation.

The "spawn" was all at the same time as I had to shovel it into the pond due to the frogs leaving it in puddles around the pond:p ! The tadpoles are bigger now than the baby frogs!

tawnyowls

Um, are you sure these are tadpoles? You wouldn't be the first person to be waiting patiently for mosquito larvae to turn into frogs ... If they seem very tiny and not growing very fast, they could be.

The_Bargain_Hunters

tawnyowls wrote:

Um, are you sure these are tadpoles? You wouldn't be the first person to be waiting patiently for mosquito larvae to turn into frogs ... If they seem very tiny and not growing very fast, they could be.

:rotfl: Very funny!:rotfl:
Yes, I do know what tadpoles look like having lived here for 16 years and the frogs have always been here! We also have waterboatmen and various other creepy crawlies in there as well as waterlillies.:o

Busybody

Does anyone know whether the pump/filter I have just fitted in my pond will clear the water, or should I be doing something else also?

Raksha

It may be the weather delaying the final transition to froglets as they will be more vulnerable in hot weather.

zzzLazyDaisy

Yep, I still have a pond full of taddies. They are HUGE. But showing no sign of hatching into froglets yet.

The_Bargain_Hunters

Update!! Although we still have a few HUGE tadpoles the garden is now a hopping mass of baby frogs!

Lord_Gardener

They're great, we often get a visit at night from frogs which seem to like watching our TV! They just hop in though the open patio doors on these balmy nights!!!