Good observation. We get thousands of toad tadpoles and babies in our main
pond. No frog tadpoles. Our veggie filters, however, are naother story.
The tree and leopard frogs that lay eggs there are more fortunate. Lots of
tadpoles and babies.

If you have to be a tadpole in a fish pond, toad is the way to go!

J

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"Coracle" wrote in message
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All fish eat frog tadpoles with vervour, they don't like toad tadpoles
very
much though, they tend to spit them out.


"David W.E. Roberts" wrote in message
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Hi,

we have had a pond for several years, with goldfish in, and always had a
good crop of tadpoles and baby frogs.

We had the usual crop of tadpoles last year, but didn't see any baby
frogs.

The only difference I can see is our Shubunkin - we put five in the pond
four or five years back and the single survivor is now much larger than
our
goldfish.

It is getting to the size of Koi Carp and I was wondering if beyons a
certain size the Shubunkin has a big enough mouth (and the inclination) to
eat tadpoles.

We have also had two generations of baby goldfish, but none recently, and
so
there is also the worry that a large fish may be eating little baby fish
also.

If this is so we will refrain from ceremonial fish and chips and donate
the
big fella to a pond which doesn't also contain wildlife :-)

Cheers

Dave R

















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