Any experts on frogspawn out there!!!

susy_2

That's lovely. I found a hedgehog outside my front door once and like you I was hoping they would be a return visitor, but I never saw them again.

We used to have two foxes that would walk down our avenue (live next to a railway line). But strangely enough, although they have been here for some years, I have not seen them recently. The car headlights used to pick them up when I drove in. However, I aso used to have a large ginger cat and the neighbour told me that she saw him chasing the foxes down the road. (Must have thought it was another fox lol).

Nile

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never_enough

Depends where you are in the country, but it seems late for frogs to be spawning, so maybe it was a taking advantage of the good weather lot of frogspawn? The frogs & toads in my pond were having some kind of wild froggy orgy about 4-6 weeks ago, we now have bizillions of tadpoles. I have to keep the grass cut short then leave it for a for a while once the froglets appear...otherwise I feel like a frog herder as they jump ahead of the lawn mower. They're great for keeping slugs under control, as are the hedgehogs. If you think screaming frogs are bad you should hear hedgehogs having sex!! :eek: The first time I heard them (just outside the backdoor) I thought one was in pain, or choking or something. One frantic trawl on the internet later I realised what was going on...:o ...
If you put the spawn in a bucket it may be ok, but put a piece of wood or something in there once the tadpoles hatch so that the froglets can get out.

navig8r

If tadpoles are in a very small body of water there may not be enough natural food for them to survive without eating each other which they will do!
You can help them out and increase their rate of developement by giving them chopped up worms or if you squeamish ,fish food.I have so many taddies in a little pool the water looks as if it is boiling when I feed them ( 3 times a day) ..When I first stated to do this they used to dive for cover as I leaned over the water to put the food in but now I swear they are waiting for me to arrive with it.

Dave

susy_2

Another alternative : My friends children have brought some tadpoles into the house from the pond, they are feeding them Daphne (live tropical fish food), from the aquarium shop.

Solomon_Broad

If the black dots are looking bigger, then I would think they would be OK. It's not like a pond in nature is a perfectly controlled environment, is it? Mother Nature must have given the spawn a fighting chance?

Dustykitten

We have tadpoles at the moment which we have borrowed from a local pond - we will return them once they have turned into frogs. We are boiling lettuce and feeding them that and they seem to like it.

seven-day-weekend

Oh... you're all making me terribly homesick!

My house in the UK has two ponds, one of them has been there for thirty years, we always have loads of frogspawn and tads, I love seeing them in the spring. My husband has even built a little maze of tunnels under the ground near the side of the pool so that the frogs can overwinter there.

Your frogspawn needs putting into a bigger container (could you make a little pond?) and when the tads come, if it is only tiny they will need feeding. I used to use a piece of wet catfood (but any meat will do). Tie it on to a piece of string and hang it over the edge, in minutes it will be live with tads! Take it out after a few hours.

Make sure the little froglets can get out of the container or at least have a piece of wood/big stone for them to climb onto.

Ooooh....wanna see my frogs! My house in Spain doesn't have a garden and it is too dry anyway for frogs.

System

Two weeks ago, via a freecycle donation, we gained frogspawn for our patio pond where we have three goldfish. At first the spawn which was in three clumps, stayed midway, but now it has sunk, looks dull, and we don't think there is any change in the state of it, ie the black dots aren't much bigger. Would it be fair to assume it's dead and if so, should we leave it in the pond for the fish to eat, or remove it.

navig8r

islandman wrote: »

Two weeks ago, via a freecycle donation, we gained frogspawn for our patio pond where we have three goldfish. At first the spawn which was in three clumps, stayed midway, but now it has sunk, looks dull, and we don't think there is any change in the state of it, ie the black dots aren't much bigger. Would it be fair to assume it's dead and if so, should we leave it in the pond for the fish to eat, or remove it.

Two weeks is guite a long time for no real signs of development especially as its been so warm but would give it another week and if the shape of the black centre has not started to elongate I would assume that they were not fertilised and therefore dead and should be removed B4 they polute the water.

dave