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Frog spawn

LynLyn Posts: 23,190
in Wildlife gardening
Anyone got any yet, our pond is a mating frenzy at the moment and lots already laid, spawn that is. 😀
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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  • FlinsterFlinster Posts: 883
    edited February 2019
    Not here, still a bit cold I think. I did find a newt the other day and it was still very asleep, although it came round after a minute, so had to relocate it as I was digging the area. Not sure I will get any this year as it’s a new pond - a year old. We got some last year from our neighbour but those froglets will be too young to spawn. Still, I’m hopeful!! I’m Herts.
  • Guernsey Donkey2Guernsey Donkey2 Posts: 6,713
    Hopefully they are still keeping off the top layer of your pond pansyface - although I am sure they will jump into action once the air warms up and the days are longer.  Love your cartoon frog - can you imagine this scene - I can!
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    @Lyn, great minds.....
    I saw some spawn yesterday down by the lake , ON THE GRASS!!!. I picked it up as best I could and put it in the water. It leaves a slimy residue almost like that left when handling a slug. 
    I came up and checked and we've got some more in the pond as well.
    Devon.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I believe sometimes when you find spawn on the grass, it's been squeezed out of a frog by a predator (heron? seagull?) which has got it in its beak...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    It’s been freezing here, the ice on the pond hasn’t long been gone.  Stupid things did the same last year. We had to cover some up and the rest I put into containers and put in the GH. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Spawn found on grass is unlikely to have been fertilised. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    We've had spawn for about three weeks, mostly in wheel ruts alongside a track!
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Just been out to check - not a sausage!
    Rutland, England
  • DampGardenManDampGardenMan Posts: 1,054
    Me too - and we found some in our newly-dug, rather "bare" pond. I'm now wondering if we should chuck in some greenery if the spawn ever hatches - will they nibble at anything floating around on the surface? I know they'll eat each other at a pinch, but we'd like to avoid that if possible!

    Am also wondering about transferring spawn from the wheel ruts - we tried it with one blob, but it sank ...
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited February 2019
    They lay the spawn on the weed, it sticks to it like glue, no good if it’s sunk, I would get some oxygenating plants in there as soon as possible. Tadpoles are meat eaters, although they do nibble the plants,  you can chop up liver or tie a piece with string and drop in. I use dried fish food sometimes if there are a lot of them. 

    You can easly tell if its dead on not fertilised, it turns white. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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