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Old 29-07-2004, 04:46 PM
Benign Vanilla
 
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Default How to rid of tedpoles


"Johnny" wrote in message
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Not an option for me. I have tons of mollies, platys, fancy guppies and
swordtails in my pond. These fish would definetely eat all my fish. Or at
least the frys. It's not my intention to kill the tadpoles only if I can
prevent it from apearing in my pond. For now I'm netting them out bit by
bit.that I throw it in the lake near by.


OK, the only thing worse then trying to rid your pond of life, is taking
that life and moving it to a natural body of water. That nearby body
probably has the same species, but you should never toss life from your
water garden in to active and live body of water.

There's too much of them and it's
getting to me. It's very hard to net just them without netting the frys.

My
pon is not that big to ignore the presents of tadpoles. Feeding also a
problem cause the tadpoles usually get the best of it. So far before this

I
manage to take the frog out before they manage to lay and even then I
usually scoop put the eggs out. But this time I must have miss out the

eggs
and now there's thousands of them swimming with my beautifull fish.
I just can't imagine thousands of little frogs jumping around in my yard.


That just won't happen. I have had 100's, maybe even 1000's of egg/tads in
my pond. Right now, I have just 3-4 frogs in my pond. Nature takes care of
it.

BV.