Really quite worried now after reading Gail's comments re baby frogs. This is my first year with a pond, got some frogspawn from a local pond (was unaware about disease!) and have loads of tadpoles. But not very many of them have legs yet, is there a sort of time range for them becoming frogs?
Frog update and message for Dillibags I had to cut the grass today because I had left it so long because off the frog life, so I collected up the baby frogs I could see and carefully started a task I wasn't looking forward to stopping and starting moving baby frogs as I went,(around 20 in all), all different shades and sizes from little finger nail size to thumb nail size.Talking to a neighbour on the left she had just seen her first baby frog today hopping around she has some big tadpoles still in her pond.Then later in the day I saw the neighbour on the right and she told me she has some hopping around the garden and still has tadpoles in her pond so this should make you happier Dillibags hang on in there because frogs, spawn over a month or more in the area I live (northeast) so they are all at different stages up and down the country hope this has helped, anyway no casualties grass looks good if it stops raining long enough I might get some overdue pond cleaning done I don't know if theres any tadpoles left, I haven't seen any for nearly 2 weeks, happy frog watching to all.
I got some pond cleaning done this weekend and as always I put a bucket or two of pond water into the compost bins and there are still the odd tadpole in the pond because I spotted one in the compost bin so after close inspection of all buckets of water I found 4. In the little lilly pool after getting my hands into the blanket and duck weed I saw 2 more one of which was nearly ready for leaving it just had a small tail left. Around the garden I have seen some new ones because they are so small.Whilst cleaning around the iris where the frogs first spawned I've noticed something that I think might be toad spawn I'm not sure because I've never seen any before I'm just going on what I've heard it looks bobbly and stringy anyway I'll wait and see.Last thing on pond life for now I went to a friends at the weekend and he has a wildlife pond and has 30 baby newts in it about 2" in size I haven't seen baby newts before so it was lovely.
August 29 and still lots of tadpoles in pond!! Have 2/3 adult frogs regularly in view, many baby frogs of various sizes but still lots of tadpoles, large and small some developing legs. Isn't it a bit late for them to still be tadpole???
i have just built a pond in the grounds of northwood kirkbys allotment and i need frogs to come to the allotment, because we are overrun by snails and slugs. we need them to get rid of them. if i put some frog spawn in next spring will that help, because i was told that when they turn into young frogs they go away for two years before they come back and we need them now.
i have just bilt a pond in the grounds of northwood kirkbys allotment and i need frogs to cume to the allotment becouse we are overun by snails and slugs we need them to get rid of them if i put sume frog sporn in next spring will that help becouse i was told that when they turn into youg frogs they go away for two years befour they cume back and we need them now.
could anyone tell me if newts come back to your pond,i had a single newt in my pond last year for the whole of the summer...will it return as i have loads of frogs and toads in it.someone told me that newts eat spawn and tadpoles...
Reply to Joey Despite my own guilty movement of spawn, this is now actually frowned upon because it might increase the spread of red-leg and other frog diseases. Frogs get all over the place and you may find that simply digging a pond encourages them to colonize it. And even though they may not return to the pond of their birth until they are sexually mature 2, 3 or even 4 years later, the young frogs will be moving about in the local area eating those slugs.
Reply to Sarah Newts do have a reputation for being the more agressive amphibians in the water, but a pond with enough aquatic vegetation should provide enough cover for all three species to coexist.
i hav about 40 frogs in my pond and have noticed the frogspawn has arrived. This is my first time with a pond as we have just recently moved to a new home. Has anyone got any tips on how to keep the frog population under control? As i dont really want frogs all over the place!
Reply to Theresa Herons, foxes, stoats, weasels, cats, dogs, crows, magpies, jays, rats and even bigger frogs will all keep the population down. Spawn is prodigious but mortality is high; there will be 3 years of very dangerous and unforgiving life before any of them reach their own sexual maturity to spawn again.
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Despite my own guilty movement of spawn, this is now actually frowned upon because it might increase the spread of red-leg and other frog diseases. Frogs get all over the place and you may find that simply digging a pond encourages them to colonize it. And even though they may not return to the pond of their birth until they are sexually mature 2, 3 or even 4 years later, the young frogs will be moving about in the local area eating those slugs.
Reply to Sarah
Newts do have a reputation for being the more agressive amphibians in the water, but a pond with enough aquatic vegetation should provide enough cover for all three species to coexist.
Has anyone got any tips on how to keep the frog population under control? As i dont really want frogs all over the place!
Herons, foxes, stoats, weasels, cats, dogs, crows, magpies, jays, rats and even bigger frogs will all keep the population down. Spawn is prodigious but mortality is high; there will be 3 years of very dangerous and unforgiving life before any of them reach their own sexual maturity to spawn again.