Dead Frogs floating in my pond?

Frank99

Anybody know what happened to these frogs? 
I only usually get newts in my former fish pond but frogs occasionally turn up however I'm not sure if these came too early to breed or something.

twopenny

Ohh nasty!

Is that on top of the netting? Have they got caught in it? It doesn't look like the sort to get tangled in.

On thought occours, have they come into contact with something poisonous and tried to get into the water to wash it off

How long since you checked the pond. Could they have got frozen to the netting then died of the cold? They look like they've been dead awhile.

Frank99

twopenny said:

Ohh nasty!

Is that on top of the netting? Have they got caught in it? It doesn't look like the sort to get tangled in.

On thought occours, have they come into contact with something poisonous and tried to get into the water to wash it off

How long since you checked the pond. Could they have got frozen to the netting then died of the cold? They look like they've been dead awhile.

Hi, this is actually my hand net that i scooped them out with, i don't have any netting over the pond itself, The other life in the pond like water shrimp and oxygenating plants seem fine so i really don't know what has happened to these poor things.

twopenny

Are there stones in the pond for things to get in and out?
Like hedgehogs and frogs.
Frogs need air. If they hopped in and couldn't get out they would eventually drown or freeze if very cold.
I've got a terracotta bowl that I treated the inside with pond paint and it got half full of rainwater. A young frog got in chassing mossie larva and couldn't get out. It was lucky i saw it struggling. I've put a couple of large stones in now.

theoretica

Could it just be from the cold snap?  Frogs do sometimes die in frozen ponds, especially if the whole pond freezes down to the bottom, but sometimes even when it hasn't.

Frank99

twopenny said:

Are there stones in the pond for things to get in and out?
Like hedgehogs and frogs.
Frogs need air. If they hopped in and couldn't get out they would eventually drown or freeze if very cold.
I've got a terracotta bowl that I treated the inside with pond paint and it got half full of rainwater. A young frog got in chassing mossie larva and couldn't get out. It was lucky i saw it struggling. I've put a couple of large stones in now.

Yes there are sloped sides to allow easy access for the newts.