That’s what happened to us last year after they’d spawned, it was very cold in Devon. I put some of it in the GH and covered the rest, some died but not all of it.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
We got hit by the same conditions too. Other half found some spawn in a wheel rut and I dug a small hole in the garden, which rapidly filled with water, and we popped them in there. A couple of nights later it was all frozen solid and the spawn just turned to mush.
Any ideas how long from spawn-laid to tadpoles breaking out (i.e. when I'll have to start feeding them!). Is it weather dependent or is it pretty much constant once the ball has started rolling ...
Around three weeks after spawning the tadpoles hatch out from their eggs. Each tadpole is about 12mm long and brown in colour. They will feed on the old jelly mass and any algae which is growing on it.There you are DampGardenMan
Around three weeks after spawning the tadpoles hatch out from their eggs. Each tadpole is about 12mm long and brown in colour. They will feed on the old jelly mass and any algae which is growing on it.There you are DampGardenMan
Thanks! If they last that long I'll work out what to feed them until I can turn the hole-in-the-ground into a proper pond.
I usually get the frog chorus on 6th or 7th March, one year it was the 10th. But last year it was 10 days earlier and then we had the hard weather - nearly all of it survived so I reckon they knew what they were doing. The outer ones die but they provide insulation for the ones in the middle (my theory anyway) and if they'd left it til the weather and water had warmed up again they would have been well behind in the growing stakes.
Once mine have hatched I feed them bread - love watching them all attached to big chunk, spinning it round as they go
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Any ideas how long from spawn-laid to tadpoles breaking out (i.e. when I'll have to start feeding them!). Is it weather dependent or is it pretty much constant once the ball has started rolling ...