Topic: Frogspawn

[Debs]

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[Debs]

oops! don't know what happened there..

Saw a large frog in our pond, but no love songs heard yet  ;)

He/She is in the larger pond which has koi carp. Last years spawn vanished, so i am assuming the carp

ate it.

This year, will be transferring  some of the spawn into the small fish-free pond which is next to it

Debs ;)

[GrannieAnnie]

got the first little clump in my pond and it looks like the frogs are busy making more. I can see them through the window but if I go anywhere near they just dive down
GA my pond is in a cold part of the garden and gets badly iced up but every year I have loads of frogs so I don,t think it needs rescuing. I havn,t any fish as I heard they eat taddys and cannot have that as I love my frogs
marg

  Goldfish and tadpoles go well together. We don't grow koi (hubby calls them "investment fish"  ;D) because of great blue herons visiting. We just started with "feeder fish" little goldfish that folks buy to feed their bigger fish. Started with 5 and they've duplicated to 22 though a few are brown so not sure how they arrived. Despite that number of fish (which we don't feed) the number of frogs and toads is HUGE. As someone said, the tadpoles eat their own and the biggest one wins. A good thing or it would be The Plague of the Frogs all over again.

[theothermarg]

this little pond is near the front of the house so we can see all the activity but yesterday I left a window open in our bedroom and the noise woke us up at 2 in the morning looked out and there they were heads out and throats going I,v never noticed this before I am expecting the neighbours to complain lucky we all have double glazing ::)
marg

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It would serve my neighbours right for being so noisy....................................did I say that out loud? oops.

[busy_lizzie]

Went out a couple of weeks ago to look at our pond and there was a frog swimming around in it.  Thought it was the start but then it disappeared and there has been no activity, but just gone out to check, and we have frog spawn and the ponds is full of frogs. Must have just happened within the last few days because I checked only recently. Now have two big clumps of spawn - such a lovely sight to see.

We have had frozen frog spawn before and they have hatched out okay, so I would tend to leave things and let Mother Nature deal with it. I always think it is officially spring when I see the frogs have been busy. Didn't hear the usual grunting and croaking though which is usually a sign.  :) busy_lizzie

[lkennea]

I have just found forgspawn in one of my tiny ponds for the first time.  I have two ponds made from half barrels and always thought they were too small for spawn, although I knew we had two frogs.  I'll ad this to my things in the garden to worry about, will it survive, have I done all I can to help it along etc.  I will also really enjoy it too.  Since creating the garden three years ago I have been doing everything possible to bring in wildlife and I now feel I am getting the rewards.

I heard the frog singing the other night, when outside with a fire and I was worried he would go unrequited.  I am very pleased he did not.  I have always been concerned the frogs are rather trapped in my garden because I have made the fences very secure to keep in my rabbits.  I will not worry so much now because it seems they have what they need to go about their business!

[tricia]

Welcome to the boards Ikennea - some of the forums are real wacky, but you'll always get a serious answer to a serious question. I've had lots of good advice over the years.

Happy for you that you have frogspawn. I had some a month ago, but in the meantime my fish must have been very hungry 'cos it's all disappeared  :(. I'm still hopeful that I'll get some more, though I just opened the patio doors and couldn't hear any blissful croaking tonight.

Plenty of time yet...............

Tricia

[Doris_Pinks]

Frogspawn in my pond 3 nights ago! Thats a first........so early. And they were singing their hearts out again tonight.........soooooo  sweet! ;D ;D

[theothermarg]

taken through my front window. a orgy here is just two come up for air

marg

[GrannieAnnie]

taken through my front window. a orgy here is just two come up for air

marg

  Marg: the Peeping Tom

[Garden Manager]

Just how hardy is frogspawn? I have read conflicting reports about it, some say it is tough and can withstand a bit of frost, others say that one sharp frost can kill it off, even that quite deep in the pond and clear of surface ice.

I was concerned that the sharp frosts we hav a couple of weeks ago had killed mine off, but there signs of at least some of it surviving and starting to grow.

So what is the truth of the matter?

[theothermarg]

I was reading a doom ridden piece in the mail which reckoned a sharp frost would kill the spawn, this is complete nonsence as the spawn in my pond has been encased in ice and still turned into hundreds of tadpoles
I was worried about the frogs last week as I could see them swimming beneath the ice I tried (carfully) breaking it but it refroze instantly, as you can see they are alive and well
marg

[jeanaustin]

Frogspawn in our allotment pond on Wednesday 27 Feb; last year the first lot was on 24 February.  Have been keeping records for about 18 years and the usual date for frogspawn is around 10 March.  So far only four lots, last year we ended up with over 60 lots.

[Garden Manager]

Frogspawn in our allotment pond on Wednesday 27 Feb; last year the first lot was on 24 February.  Have been keeping records for about 18 years and the usual date for frogspawn is around 10 March.  So far only four lots, last year we ended up with over 60 lots.

60! Makes my 3 look pitiful. yet it seems a lot for my small pond. How big is your pond by the way?

[jeanaustin]

Our allotment wildlife pond is about 10ft x 7ft and about 18" deep.  60 lots was really far too much but 'big tadpole eats little tadpole' and the pond life remained healthy!  We have a huge number of frogs on our allotment, we were clearing an overgrown area of years of accumulated old compost bags, old lino, plant material etc at the end of November last year and there were frogs everywhere, ranging from large ones to what were probably 2007's babies - all were moved to new homes in a nearby compost heap.  We only made our allotment pond in October 2004 but in the very first spring it attracted lots of frogs.  My frog spawn earliest date records before Spring 2005 were from my small garden pond (now filled in due to the arrival of grandchildren and the danger of even small garden ponds to 'tinies').

[Blue Bird]

Have frog spawn in my little pond (only 2) but pond only an upside down bin lid.

Will have to feed again when they are tadpoles with cat food.  They did very well on it last year.  Not enough natural food in my little pond to substain too many tapoles.

[Mark /\]

My pond was 1 year old two weeks ago and today I have my first 2 lumps of frogspawn. Yippee.

Its strange that they have left my small wildlife pond alone and jumped in my bigger raised pond.

I will have to remove most of the spawn or my fish will eat them.

Just been out and seen two frogs swimming about. Do they mate once or over a few nights?. Never had a pond before so its all new.

[manicscousers]

frogspawn has arrived in Wigan..not in our pond, in a big puddle  ;D
we've moved a big bucketfull in to the pond now  ;D

[Lady of the Land]

Noticed frog spawn in our pond which has fish in about 3 days ago. We also have some frogssporn given to us by my father which I will keep in the house untill it turns into frogs with the aim of preventing the fish eating the tadpoles.

My husband who has been away said when he saw it was to ensure the frogs are put outside before they start leaping about the house as they did one year !