Last year I had loads of frog-spawn in my little garden pond which soon hatched into tadpoles but I never saw them develop legs and become frogs. How long does this process take? I have more frog-spawn again this year. Was wondering if there was anything wrong with the water, weather or something else which would prevent them from developing. Am looking for expert advice from someone with experience of this, please.
2007-03-12 03:57:55 · 7 answers · asked by ? 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Last year, I put some tadpoles with water from the pond in a tank and they finished up by eating each other. They never did develop into frogs, so I don't fancy doing that again!
2007-03-12 04:13:18 · update #1
Tadpoles start off vegetarian and browse the alge off of the plants and rocks in a pond. As they develop they require more protien to become froglets and hence eat each other and anything else they can get hold of - usually dead fish etc.
If you want to grow some to maturity, try a small spare pond or tank but feed them with proprietory fish food. if the poulation density is low enough you should succeed.
2007-03-12 04:29:50 · answer #1 · answered by norm c 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The tadpoles were most probably eaten by the birds or the fish in the pond. I have loads of Koi and they eat the tadpoles as soon as they enter the pond from the stream where they spawned. Your best bet would be to catch the tadpoles and keep them in a tank until they start developing back legs.
2007-03-12 04:02:50 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
did you have ducks or other birds or fish ,they all eat frog spawn so do toads
i seperate it in little pond if i see any because i promote frogs to combat mosqiutos in my garden
frogs are a sign of a healthy eco-system and are food for a variety of animals (snakes ,birds even bulfrogs eat smaller frogs ),but so is the spawn ,it takes maybe 2 months depnding on where you are climate is relevant
2007-03-12 08:40:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
any fish in your pond would eat the tadpoles, they are also cannibal and do hide as they get bigger, then as sooon as they ahve all legs they will move away from the pond. Aslo birds will eat them, not only herons but any that can reach them.
2007-03-12 04:26:27 · answer #4 · answered by mike-from-spain 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Best thing to do is get a (separate) cheap plastic pond, and put them in there. Best to get quite an 'old' one as well, so there is more algae and stuff for them to eat.
Then, no predators can get at them, and they should develop successfully.
2007-03-12 04:07:24 · answer #5 · answered by Buck Flair 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
together as grew to alter into the astounding time which you fed the newt? What and how plenty? My wager is that he ate him too, yet did you learn indoors the gravel, with the aid of actuality they choose to cover.... he in all probability ate him! My advice ought to be to not placed a similar form of fish in with him.... i'd additionally propose which you in basic words ut fish in there that are possibility-loose for him to consume, with the aid of actuality he will each and every so in many circumstances consume the fish!!! wish this helped!!
2016-12-18 11:41:04 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The reason is because they were probably eaten by preditors. If you cover your pond with a mesh, then no birdies can get to it.
2007-03-12 04:04:47 · answer #7 · answered by natasha * 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋