Frog spawn

[fluffygrue]

I have frogspawn on my new lottie.. and I don't even have a pond.

They've gone and laid it in a 4" deep puddle of water in one of the tarps covering the plot, bless 'em! Suppose I'll be having to dig a teeny pond for them soon, then..

Melanie

[fluffygrue]

[busy_lizzie]

FG, you have just got to build a pond now and give the poor little things a decent home.   :)  Well, our frogs have now taken over both of the ponds in the garden, despite the horrible wintery weather, that is still taking place here. We have quite a bit of frog spawn in the main pond and they have started filling up the smaller pond now.  busy_lizzie

[telboy]

Garden girl,
Yes, unfortunately, frogs will cling onto fish & the fish will die.
It's them or them I'm afraid.

[Gardengirl]

Thanks telboy.  I must admit in all my years of keeping pond fish I have never come across this before.

[Doris_Pinks]

Pat has to rescue one of my fish from an over amorous, short sighted frog last year, well, actually got OH to do it!  They just seem to get too carried away sometimes! ;D

[grawrc]

Yes we've intervened in the passionate but lethal exploits of frogs "hugging" fish before now too. ::) ::)

[John_H]

I’m still waiting, there were a few frogs around until the weather turned cold but the pond suddenly developed a covering of some horrible green froth last week, resembling a rather cheap Dr Who special effect from the 1970s, its not a blanket weed but some other kind of algae I guess.

Anyway, I skimmed quite a bit of this slime off the surface and last nights rain seemed to finish off the rest. So hopefully the frogs will be back to do the frog thing soon.

[jammyd]

Hi all, I made a pond on my lottie a couple of years back, and was assured that froggies, toads and newts would find their own way to it and set up home.

Sadly, this hasn't happened and the slugs are still living the life of Riley... My question is - is there anywhere I can get frog/toad/newt spawn for my pond? I have a feeling I shouldn't be taking it from the wild, but I don't know anyone with a garden pond inhabited by breeding amphibians.

Any suggestions would be gratefully noted :)

ta
jams

[theothermarg]

I'v been checking every day, nothing :'( then today  ;D there it was
right in the middle a clump of spawn  of coarse last night the wind
changed and it rained   those poor little froggies must have been bursting
I should think the human equivalent of being a few months over due ::)
I thought my frogs had deserted me this year as I havent seen any yet
so it's cheered me up :)

[Paulines7]

I have hundreds of tadpoles from the first lot of spawn that were shown in the pictures on page 1 of this thread.  ;D ;D ;D

The frogs laid some more eggs yesterday so it looks like I will be inundated with frogs in my garden this year.   

croak  croak, croak  croak  ;D ;D ;D )

[grawrc]

Still nothing here.  :'( :'( :'(

[John_H]

Result!

I built my pond in 2004 and yesterday (pritty much as soon as the weather changed) two large clumps of frogspawn appeared.

[maureen]

hello Pauline, our pond is a mass of activitie as there are so many tiny frogs all I can see is there tiny heads with huge eyes staring at me. I am hoping to see frogspawn very soon..keep you all in touch touch...Maureen

[grawrc]

Aaaaargh! Nothing yet! We normally have frogspawn in February. :'( :'(

[Paulines7]

Hello Maureen,  I see you are a new member so welcome to the forum.  ;D
I am sure you will find plenty of topics here to interest you and we are a very friendly bunch.   :D :D

I hope your frogs produce some spawn for you soon.  nice to make your aquaintance.   Pauline

[Gardengirl]

Hello Maureen - welcome :D 
I have been waiting quite a time for my frogspawn to appear but now they are making up for lost time ::)

[grawrc]

Lots of frogsong last night so I am fully anticipating finding spawn in at least one of the ponds today.

[lilylover]

Finally saw some spawn today after 3 days and nights of 'singing'  Better late than never  :)

[grawrc]

YEah! We got it! We got it! We got it! 6 clumps of frogspawn as a result of the frogsong! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[eileen]

YAAAAAYYYY!!!! At last I have frogspawn in my pond too!!!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D I thought for a while there my frogs had deserted me.