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Cavy Member Joined: 22 Apr 2006 No. of posts: 5  View other posts in this topic |
Posted: 22 Apr 2006
Topic: Indoor taddies, other questions
This forum looks terrifc & I only just found it, so apologies for the deluge of questions. Last year I scooped some frogspawn out of a neighbour's pond (else he was just going to flush it down the loo), and put it in my (very new) pond. 1) The taddies hatched ok but most didn't turn into froglets by end of the summer, is this because the pond didn't have enough food in it? I fed them apple cores, carrot peelings and some meat. This year I went back and got neighbour's frog-spawn again. I put most in my pond but it mostly sank (dammit)... 2) How could I fix spawn to plants near the surface, will it hatch from the bottom of the pond? I put tap water in an indoor aquarium and added the stuff that is supposed to take chlorine out instantly to make tap water ok for aquarium fish. I then put some spawn in an indoor aquarium. Most of the taddies hatched quickly & instantly died... 3) Is this because of the chlorine? Should I have just used tap water & let it stand a week, instead, before putting spawn in? Thankfully, about 26 of the aquarium taddies survied and are growing well. The water is currently very green, though. We bought an aquarium pump to aerate the water. 4) Is there anything I can safely do to reduce the algae? I read that taddies want to start eating meat about when legs appear. 5) After legs appear Should I still offer goldfish food/veggies, too, or just a little fresh meat every day? What kind of meat is best? 6) I'd like to keep the indoor taddies indoors as long as possible; how can I do that? They have some bricks/other things they climb out on as nearly-froglets, but I don't know about feeding them . I also took wildlife from another neighbour's pond which was being filled in, as a result we have newts in the outdoor pond (sorry, I can't figure out which kind of newt! Probably smooth, I guess). 7) Is there anything I can do to help the newts thrive? thanks! I'm partly asking because I know other people who have tried to raise taddies in buckets, aquariums, too. |
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Cavy Member Joined: 22 Apr 2006 No. of posts: 5 View other posts in this topic |
Posted: 19 May 2006
Topic: Indoor taddies, other questions
Sorry Ladybird I can't help you, have you asked around anyone who has garden pond (maybe?). Thanks for replies to everyone. I wasn't feeding our taddies at all; I tried goldfish flakes but they didn't like 'em. they were evidently growing well on whatever else was in the cloudy water (I keep changing it, but it's still very cloudy). They all sprouted legs in last few days and were seeming quite aggressive towards each other. We dropped a worm and some flies in there, but they weren't impressed, so I tried beef mince this morning -- WAY HEY! Group pig-out and they're quite lethargically happy, now. I finally got a decent head-count (very close to 50 of them in there) because they all had a binge... as did at least 4 worms and the two snails (we also have a waterlouse, lots of tiny things that flit around on top of the water, and an unindentified green aquatic insect in there). I'll try to post a piccie later! |
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Cavy Member Joined: 22 Apr 2006 No. of posts: 5 View other posts in this topic |
Posted: 13 Jul 2006
Topic: How Common are Red frogs in England?
Sorry if this has been covered (did try to search, but was surprised I came up with nothing). We have a very red frog in our pond. She has been like this for months, although I think she may be getting darker red (since I first noticed her a few months ago). I don't think it's Red Leg (a bacterial infection, apparently), because she's red all over & seems ok other than being dark brick red, and none of their other frogs have been found dead (or red). How uncommon is this? She (or he) is a full adult. We live in north Norfolk. |
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Cavy Member Joined: 22 Apr 2006 No. of posts: 5 View other posts in this topic |
Posted: 15 Jul 2006
Topic: How Common are Red frogs in England?
 Sorry everyone, I'm so bad at this I can't even figure out how to add a new reply to this thread, but it seems I can edit this post? So I've now got a picture uploaded. Big Update is that the frog has died, so maybe she was poorly with something (it looked like she had a fungus or rot on her bottom, as you can almost see in this pic). So maybe she was poorly. But she was quite mature (not a subadult for sure). But rest of frogs still seem ok (if suffering from pond shrinkage in this heat wave). Pond size: it's a half-circle shape with radius of about 1.5m, so not small. We live on the edge of a market town. We live right in front (downwind) from a field growing barley that has been sprayed -- could chemicals cause the frog to be so red? |
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Cavy Member Joined: 22 Apr 2006 No. of posts: 5 View other posts in this topic |
Posted: 21 Jul 2006
Topic: How Common are Red frogs in England?
Woops! I've edited my previous post to now show pic of my red frog (who is sadly now deceased). |
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