Lyn, it's generally not good practice to transfer stuff from pond to pond; there are a number of invasive weeds that people have introduced into their ponds and these would be spread by transfer. There are also diseases of frogs which could be spread.
I agree with Verdun. I love frogs and at present our pond is like a frog and spawn soup but it isn't to everyone's taste and you won't be able to keep an eye on your children all the time when they are in the garden so open water would be a big mistake.
As to when you should do this, that is up to you. If you leave the frogspawn to mature and develop legs then you will be letting the next generation of frogs loose in your garden.....which will obviously creep you out. Please don't move the frogs and spawn to a pond in another area as you may spread disease.
So what do you do with it if you don't 'let it grow legs', put the tadpoles on the compost? Bash them on the head?
I agree that it is entirely the OP's choice if they have a pond or not. But the advice to leave it until the late summer when the tadpoles have finished development, and many of the adults will be long gone, is simply inline with what anyone else would advise.
Tipping out partially developed tadpoles or bashing the adults on the head would be simply unethical.
If the OP is not happy it is the correct advice they can contact Froglife:
On here I agree pansyface, people will just give their own views and personal opinions.
That is why I posted a link to http://www.froglife.org/ - who will be able to provide the OP with the current, correct and ethical advice. If OP chooses not to take it, up to them. I don't think anyone here does anything but try to answer the questions the best they can really and it would be a very boring place if we all agreed all the time.
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Lyn, it's generally not good practice to transfer stuff from pond to pond; there are a number of invasive weeds that people have introduced into their ponds and these would be spread by transfer. There are also diseases of frogs which could be spread.
A pond that's covered with a grill will simply smell....baaaad!
You make them removable for cleaning.
Verdun,
I'm not telling him/her what to do, simply putting the other side of the matter. This pond wouldn't be any more 'unused' than any other pond.
As to when you should do this, that is up to you. If you leave the frogspawn to mature and develop legs then you will be letting the next generation of frogs loose in your garden.....which will obviously creep you out. Please don't move the frogs and spawn to a pond in another area as you may spread disease.
So what do you do with it if you don't 'let it grow legs', put the tadpoles on the compost? Bash them on the head?
I agree that it is entirely the OP's choice if they have a pond or not. But the advice to leave it until the late summer when the tadpoles have finished development, and many of the adults will be long gone, is simply inline with what anyone else would advise.
Tipping out partially developed tadpoles or bashing the adults on the head would be simply unethical.
If the OP is not happy it is the correct advice they can contact Froglife:
http://www.froglife.org/
The advice will be the same though.
On here I agree pansyface, people will just give their own views and personal opinions.
That is why I posted a link to http://www.froglife.org/ - who will be able to provide the OP with the current, correct and ethical advice. If OP chooses not to take it, up to them. I don't think anyone here does anything but try to answer the questions the best they can really and it would be a very boring place if we all agreed all the time.
Thank you for your comments. I'm undecided!