Frogs

angelavdavis

Just sink an old bucket in the ground, under a bush or somewhere out of the way (be careful if you have kids) and then they will soon appear. You can always advertise on freecycle for some frog spawn so you can adopt some!

navig8r

angelavdavis wrote:

Just sink an old bucket in the ground, under a bush or somewhere out of the way (be careful if you have kids) and then they will soon appear. You can always advertise on freecycle for some frog spawn so you can adopt some!

If you have a small body of water there may not be enough life to provide food for the tadpoles and they will resort to eating each other . I feed my tads with fish food to help them but they do love chopped up worms.If you have a container with steep sides and the water level drops the frogs young and old can't get out and will drown so hang some sacking over the side for them to climb up..Toads tend to like deeper water than frogs as they lay their spawn in long strands wound around the plants ..of the four ponds I have there are only toads in the one that is four feet deep.and a this time of year at night a dozen or more males patrol the perimeter ready to ambush the females .

I have put frog spawn on Freecycle but as yet have no takers ..I think its probable because we we are in a remote country location and peeps can't be bothered to travel.

Dave

angelavdavis

navig8r wrote:

If you have a small body of water there may not be enough life to provide food for the tadpoles and they will resort to eating each other . I feed my tads with fish food to help them but they do love chopped up worms.If you have a container with steep sides and the water level drops the frogs young and old can't get out and will drown so hang some sacking over the side for them to climb up..Toads tend to like deeper water than frogs as they lay their spawn in long strands wound around the plants ..of the four ponds I have there are only toads in the one that is four feet deep.and a this time of year at night a dozen or more males patrol the perimeter ready to ambush the females .

I have put frog spawn on Freecycle but as yet have no takers ..I think its probable because we we are in a remote country location and peeps can't be bothered to travel.

Dave

Thanks for this Dave, you are absolutely right of course!. You can place some bricks or rocks in the bottom to provide them with levels and allow one of the bricks to poke out of the water so they can climb out.

No one ever advertises frog spawn on our freecycle:(

margaretclare

We had a wildlife pond made a few years ago and the frogs have been very busy in it (there were frogs there before the pond). In the last few days there have been 20 - 30 frogs in there acting as if they're all on Viagra! It's better than a soap-opera watching them.

Mostly they live under the bushes in the garden - they hibernate in the mud at the bottom of the pond and they mate in the water, but otherwise, they live on land, sheltering among the plants.

It's not considered a good idea to relocate frog-spawn, in case the frogs have an infection which can be transmitted to another area - there's a thing called 'red leg' which is nasty. 10 years or so ago I used to find these sad little corpses, all with red legs. I haven't seen it since then, though.

Margaret

do_it_today!

This is a facinating thread thanks for the offer navi8ate - its a shame we are not closer anyway will put an add on freecycle and find a suitable container to start a little pond.
thanks for the advice all :T

Don'tskipit

Hiya all,
First frogspawn yesterday morning.
Frogs are really croaking day and night, I love 'em!

tru

We haven't seen or heard any frogs or toads this year but they're obviously visiting, the pond is full of spawn Our pond is a weird shape, it goes skinny in the middle then widens out again, we carefully move the spawn to the small end then wedge a piece of wood in the skinny bit so the fish can't swim through and eat it.

We had a pond when we first moved in, we got rid of it after a couple of years. Then the frogs returned and left spawn all over the grass, by the time we realised it was too late to rescue it :sad: We felt so guilty that we HAD to put a new pond in :rolleyes:

bha.fatboy

I have just made a pond in my allotment to attract frogs newts etc to keep the slug levels down. I found an old cast Iron bath which I have used. I managed to get some water lillies, and other pond plants and pond snails from freecycle and frogspawn from my pond in the back garden . I have also used rocks at both ends to help the frogs get out lets hope they can jump high enough and will use some fish flake when they turn to tadpoles as mentioned earlier or even some bloodworm from the petshop

thriftyjo

WOW - Never knew that frogs ate slugs! I'm going to have to get a pond and some frogs now .... I have got an old shell style lid off an old sandpit - would that work as a pond if I sunk it into the ground .... I could put some stones in it so that they can get out ....

navig8r

thriftyjo wrote:

WOW - Never knew that frogs ate slugs! I'm going to have to get a pond and some frogs now .... I have got an old shell style lid off an old sandpit - would that work as a pond if I sunk it into the ground .... I could put some stones in it so that they can get out ....

Don't put it in full sun because it sounds as if its a small body of water your going to have and as the weather gets warmer it will boil the poor things.

Dave