Frogs and frogspawn in pond
For the first time since installing a pond, we found a frog and frogspawn in it. Then two of our fish mysteriously died. Not knowing much about frogs and fish together, we decided that maybe it was not just a coincident. We made another very small pond and transferred the frogspawn and the frog to it. Now there is no sign of the frog and the frogspawn have disappeared to the bottom. What did we do wrong and what should we have done, does anyone know? Much obliged.
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sounds like lack of oxygen in both cases, it can happen at this time of year.
the frogs will simply of moved on, frogspawn doesn't like being on the bottom of the pond, they like the warmth of sunlight to help the tadpoles develop.
We have a wildlife pond and for the past two years ,in spite of a good amount of hatched frogspawn,
we can find no sign of tadpoles. We have a few newts and dragonfly nymphs. Would these consume all of the tadpoles?
We have had our small wildlife pond for 2 years & although we have frogs we have seen our first frogspawn this year but i can only see 2 tadpoles we have noticed a lot of tiny green leaves on top of the pond does anyone know how to get rid of it we have tried our little net but cant get it all we do have lots of plants in the pond & it tends to congregate around the stems I have heard Bluetitch that newts eat tadpoles but been a newbie im not 100% sure?
Sounds like duckweed little bee. Someone recently suggested using a hose to push their pondweed all into one place and then fishing it out. You'll never get it all but it may help control it. Mine all blows to one end and I fish out as much as I can.
Thanks plant pauper sounds like a good idea will give it a try
Last edited: 18 May 2016 13:24:27
This is my frog from last year sorry its taken so long to post but I couldn't work out how to get the pic on here Gillian53 yours look a fine fellow
Hi there. Dragonfly nymphs are ferocious predators of tadpoles so they may account for some of your losses.