And I got home last night and it was the POOF! day: they were all gone. Nary
a one left in the pond! It's only been about 3 weeks or so. Very strange
how they do that!

Lee

"Phyllis and Jim Hurley" wrote in
message .. .
Hi Lee,

Our taddies get placed over a long period. They keep on thriving and the
ground around the pond has lots of toadlets on it. I suspect a good
number
get mowed when we do the lawn wach week! Bummer. Still, there are loads
of
them in the garden and in the plantings around the house and in the woods
accross the road.. They are also in the shrubs at a distance. Jim
guesses
we do 10,000 a year. Maybe it is good they don't all make it.

We also have loads of frogs. Jim reports they thrive best in the veggie
filters, no big fish.

P

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"Lee Brouillet" wrote in message
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May I respectfully repeat: Toadpoles last about 2 or 3 weeks, then
disappear
POOF! When mine leave the pond, they still have their little tails!
Nothing
eats them, they just go to continue their development somewhere else,
and
I'll be dashed if I know where! Maybe nothing got your tads: maybe it
was
just time to go???? BTW, I tossed a piece of watermelon in the pond
yesterday: the fish *ignored* it, but the taddies were crawling ALL over
it,
and even burrowed holes IN it!

Lee

"jammer" j@mmer wrote in message
...
I am an idiot.

Had all these tadpoles in a kiddie pool. Gave them cheerios last night
and enjoyed watching them on their merry-go-rounds, but today i reason
that birds like cheerios too, and hey, if there are fish attached to
those cheerios, i bet they like them even better.

I dont know how many are left but something wiped out over a thousand.

Now, after the fact, there are house screens on top of the pool to
save whatever is left.

Let this be a lesson to some other new toad/pond person!