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Help with frog - quite urgent:

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Paul
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Joined: 27 May 2004
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Posted: 27 May 2004

Last Tuesday night (25th) when i was up near my pond I was just spotting some of my frogs and spotted about 5 medium size and 1 large slighty submerged in between 1 of my plants and the side of my pond, I thought nothing of it till Tonight (thurs - 27th) when i spotted the same frog in the same location and at closer inspection the eyes looked blue in colour, this led me to belive it was somehow dead. So I went to remove it from my pond but when i first touched the frog it submerged making it hard to get at without moving my plant, anyway i managed to move it out from the gap and when i tried to grasp it, it swam away into the deeper water where I lost it in Canadian Pond weed, i then waited for it to come out again but to no prevail, I'm not sure what is wrong with this frog, quite large, but it's mainly the blue/cloudy eyes that worry me cause of illness which might spread to my population of frogs... I would be grateful for any help, I've never really heard of this kind of thing  before.

Just an extra note on how my frog spawn's being lately -

2002, briliant year, lots of frogspawn and froglets.

2003, lots of frog spawn, some developed, then disapeared.

2004, 3 clumps of frog spawn, plently of tadpoles, no problems yet.

 

I'm not sure what happened in 2003 - bad season for all of UK but I live in Northumberland and the frogs lay quite late after the frost has gone, so i'm not sure...

 

                   Thanks,   Paul C


evilmike
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Joined: 15 May 2004
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Posted: 27 May 2004

i had a blind frog for a good while, lasted a fair while, but was very thin and old looking used to spend most time on surface during the day. untill he died :(

 

maybe just old age?

lost all my tadpoles again this yr (2003 too) go from about 20 spawns to zero tadpoles (counted 152individual frogs last year on surface at one time), have a huge population of Palmates, putting the blame on these guys eating them all.

 

 


Mike Lister BSc hons Ecology & Env management
Paul
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Posted: 28 May 2004

I put my spawn into a tank this year as i'm sure I have a pair of great crested newts who had a nice meal on my frogspawn last year.

If the frog is blind then it's probally just recently went blind as i monitor my pond, also he was slow to react to me touching him.


dave atkins
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Joined: 05 May 2004
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Posted: 03 Jun 2004

I also lost my frog spawn this year and last, I put some into a tank this year and that disolved into nothing ! I thought that it was a fertility problem, but seeing that I am not the only one whose spawn has died there must be something more sinister happening country wide ! 

Sorry about my ignorance but what are "palmates" ?  

I have come across frogs with limbs missing but never a blind one, but blindness must happen in the frog world as it does in all of the animal kingdom !


Dave Atkins
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Posted: 03 Jun 2004

Dave,

Palmates are a native newt,

http://www.herpetofauna.co.uk/palmate_newt.htm

 


Gemma Fairchild, Independent Ecological Consultant
Alan Hyde
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Joined: 17 Apr 2003
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Posted: 03 Jun 2004
Although I had very little spawn this year all the tadpoles are doing well. Not only that the few tadpoles I have are very large .
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