Hi,

I put two Water Lilys in my pond last week. The tadpoles seem to love one
plant in particular and have just about stipped the pads .

There is plenty of other food in the pond so I presume it is a matter of
preference for their diet 8-)

Anyone have a suggestion as to how I can deter the tadpoles?

Iain

Simply, try to bred dragon flies.

tadpoles like to eat tomates , maybe try a small slice and see if they
gobble that up instead
"IKD" wrote in message
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Hi,

I put two Water Lilys in my pond last week. The tadpoles seem to love one
plant in particular and have just about stipped the pads .

There is plenty of other food in the pond so I presume it is a matter of
preference for their diet 8-)

Anyone have a suggestion as to how I can deter the tadpoles?

Iain

Put some fish in the pond like Oscars and see how many tadpoles last!

Peter

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 07:29:33 +0800, IKD wrote:

I put two Water Lilys in my pond last week. The tadpoles seem to love one
plant in particular and have just about stipped the pads .

There is plenty of other food in the pond so I presume it is a matter of
preference for their diet 8-)

Anyone have a suggestion as to how I can deter the tadpoles?

Do you want frogs in the pond, apparently you have no fish? White
Clouds might be a suitable fish depending on where you live, they are
a cold water fish about 3 to 4 cm long and they would breed outside if
no other fish were present. They do a terrific job of controlling
mosquitoes etc. that would otherwise be a problem in outside ponds by
eating the larvae before it develops. I'm sure they would do the same
with the tadpoles unless they were themselves eaten by frogs.
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Stuart.

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On Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:40:03 +1000, Bushy wrote:

Put some fish in the pond like Oscars and see how many tadpoles last!

Also see how long it takes for the Oscars to rid the pond of all
vegetation including the Water Lilys. :-)
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Stuart.

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"IKD" wrote in message
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Hi,

I put two Water Lilys in my pond last week. The tadpoles seem to love one
plant in particular and have just about stipped the pads .

There is plenty of other food in the pond so I presume it is a matter of
preference for their diet 8-)

Anyone have a suggestion as to how I can deter the tadpoles?

Iain


Are you sure it's the tadpoles?

You could possibly try putting in a couple of other type of water plants, as
well as your water lillies. Once the water lillies get going, and
multiplying, then it should be quite safe to remove the other plants.
Unless of course the other food you mention are other water plants, in which
case I am not sure.
It would be quite beneficial to allow the tadpoles to mature to frogs,
'cause as frogs they will be getting quite a lot of "annoying" bugs around
the garden, including flies and mossies.



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"IKD" writes:
I put two Water Lilys in my pond last week. The tadpoles seem to love one
plant in particular and have just about stipped the pads .

Could you surround the lily plant with an underwater bowl-shaped barrier
fashioned from nylon flyscreen and fishing line? All that would be visible
above the surface would be a circle where its edge emerged above water
level. Terminate it on a circle of floating plastic tube, cover with weed.
In time the fly screen would become mossy, and you'd need to check from
time to time that no frog spawn has hatched inside the barrier.

This idea stands a chance of working if it's only the pad that they are
eating, and not the stalks too.
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John Savage (for email, replace "ks" with "k" and delete "n")