Raising Frogspawn

[black angel]

dont tadpoles only eat algae?

i think the water may go bad if you have more than a handful and a filter will suck them up...i would just leave them in the pond..more chance of survival

 

[3ndl3r]

Tadpoles/frogspawn belong in the wild. And yes, for the first few weeks of life they consume nothing but very small algaes. Something which an aquarium can't provide.

Just leave them.

 

[fishing for info]

Well, about your original question, I think tadpoles hatch within a few days but i don't know if it's the same with all breeds of frogs. And I think it has been said but tadpoles will probably eat algae and other microbes in the water. I don't think you need to feed them anything specific until they get big-enough to eat daphnia and micro worms. I did once hear about something called infusoria that you can feed them but I have never seen it before so i wouldn't count on using that. It's probably best to just leave them because that would be what would happen if they were living in the wild. Good luck!

 

[agulliver]

Is my cat going to be arrested for removing frog spawn from my pond and eating it? LOL

As a child I never had any real luck hatching and keeping frogspawn indoors. You can hatch the eggs but the frogpoles rarely reach maturity...indeed I never recall them doing so indoors. Best to leave them outside.

I currently have at least eight huge clumps of spawn and 17 frogs that I can see...many more no doubt hiding in the plants and folds of the pond liner and some are too deep in the water to be seen. Its a 4 foot deep pond and I was dredging the bottom with a net a week or so ago, picked up three frogs and some spawn right from the bottom that I couldn't see from the surface.

I do believe there may well be bylaws and laws about disturbing frogs, and certainly newts. We've always had frogs in the pond since my late father and I built it in 1989, but only last year did he spy a newt for the first time. In recent years due to disease some aras have had a dearth of frogs, so I believe the current advice is to encourage them to thrive wherever they are not affected by the disease. My pond is certainly a haven for frogs...and 7 koi

 

[chesterscot]

truck just becuase they live outside DOES not mean they are native
scot

 

[hollanda88]

truck just becuase they live outside DOES not mean they are native
scot

lol i read that wrong first, i was about to disagree then noticed the "not" bit lol