I hava quite a few toad tadpoles in my pond and have noticed in the last couple of days that they seem to be hanging onto the sides of the fish. Not sure if they are just hitching a ride or are actually eating. I've cleared hundreds of them and put them into my smaller pond but there are still quite a few left.
Any ideas?
Sorry no one has responded to your question Tony
Maybe as you say the tadpoles are just hitching a ride on the fish.
I am sure you know if they are definately toad rather than frog tadpoles. The spawn is arranged differently. Rather than a clump as frogspawn is, toadspawn is laid as two rows in a string of jelly and the tadpoles are black.
Whatever they are, net them out or hope the fishies eat them. You do not want to encourage frogs - nasty creatures that will bring disease to your pond and clamp the fish if they can get at them. These may be frogs or toads as BOTH can have black (or varied colours) spawn.
Bubs x
Hi Lilac_froggy, sorry I didn't reply earlier but got a bit disheartened when nobody replied. Logged in for first time in month or so just now and saw your reply.
Anyway they were toads as I witnessed the two of them stuck together for about 3 days whilst the female left a necklace of spawn and wrapped it round plants and anything else she could find in the pond. I managed to get a lot of it out and put it in my small wildlife pond.
Since my post the tadpoles got bigger and I netted most of them out and also put them into the other pond. They are now emerging as tiny black/brown toads, quite cute actually. It's amazing but i've seen them up the other end of the garden, about 70ft, can't believe they can get that far without being eaten by the birds.
Funny thing is that the ones left in the main pond have dissapeared, maybe the fish ate them or the frogs, who knows.
I suppose thistime next year i'll have hundreds of toads trying to spawn, time for a bigger pond me thinks.
thanks again for your reply
Tony
Hi Bubs
thanks for replying, sorry I haven't been on line for a while, got a bit fed up and thouht that nobody cared.
Anyway, toad tadpoles have all gone now, I moved most of them into my small wildlife pond and the rest have dissapeared, maybe the fish ate them?
regards
Hi Tony
So sorry no one else replied
I always try to write something even if it's I don't know! I don't like it either when no one replies.
Sounds like you have a nice colony of toads there LOL
We have some frogs and newts. I found a dead young newt the other which wasn't too pleasant as some black things (leeches ?) were eating it.
It is amazing how far toads and frogs can travel. We used to get both when we had no pond. Then when we did have a pond none were around .Sean on here gave me some frog spawn and oddly a big frog appeared out of the blue from who knows where. The frogs we have now are the result of the spawn Sean gave me. I read they spawn in the second year and sure enough they did this year
Would love to see pics of your if you can take some
I've tried to paste some photo's but can't get it to work, is there some sort of secret way of doing it on here.
When you go to write a post Tony, click on the tab 'options'. This isn't available if you use the quick reply so use the actual reply to thread.
Below file attachment click on the Add/update. A box will open (attach file), if the pic is on your hard drive click on browse. Find it then double click to bring it into the box. Then click save. The box will vanish . Click send and the pic should be in your post. You can of course add your comments too by clicking on the 'compose' tab before you post. Or write before you add the pic.
Lets see if this works then, should be a picture of my lily.
Very nice - now you've got the hang of posting pics - more!!!!
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That worked, here's one of one of the frogs. Toads to follow tonight if i get the chance
seeyah.
Well done Tony
Excellent pics
Which camera do you have?
Frog? tadpoles will eat fish in the correct circumstances, in the article I read this was too much plant cover in which the tadpoles could hide from the fish, I seem to remember that the majority of the plant cover was removed and the fish turned the tables. So it wouldnt surprised me if toad tadpoles will do the same. I have seen my 5-6" goldfish ingest tadpoles that were the size of garden peas and no tadpoles survived in that pond whilst there were 'big' goldfish in it.
Anyway you seem to have sorted things out.
It's a Canon Powershot A720IS.
Got it a couple of months ago, still trying to work out what all the buttons do at the moment.
cheers
It takes lovely pics Tony
I have a canon powershot A40. Quite old now and I am looking to get a new camera . Blue Dave has a great panasonic lumix one I am tempted by. But I still can't decide