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How fast do tadpoles grow?
About a month ago I had a bulldozer and front end loader come in and scoop
out a big hole in the ground. Actually, the thing looked like it had been a pond before, in that it was fairly deep and full of water. But someone had turned it in to a junk pile, with a bunch of willows and weeds growing around the outside and the inside filled with junk. Mostly the junk was dead branches and brush, but there were things in there like an old chair or two, an old bar-b-que grill, a metal desk, other well, uh, junk. Anyway, all that is gone and now I have a pretty bare 40' in diameter 5' deep mud puddle. I think the pond might be below the local water table because as soon as I quit pumping the water out, it filled back up to about 5' deep. The guy who cleaned out the pond told me to get some rye grass seed because it would sprout real fast, covering up the bare places and helping control any possible erosion. The store I went to was out of rye grass seed but the salesclerk sold me some other seed he said would work just as well. I must have screwed up and made the clerk think I wanted seed that absolutely would *not* sprout, because that is exactly what I got. But that's another story. Some two weeks ago I was out fussing around the pond and noticed about 4 big clumps of frog eggs. I thought that was a little fast, but just figured I didn't know hardly as much as I thought I did about frogs. Then today I was out fussing again and saw what looked like a ping-pong ball with a tail. I couldn't exactly place what it was, so I grabbed a stick and poked at it. It blinked at me, then lazily swam away. There are oodles of small tadpoles in the water, but this thing was far, far bigger than any of them. It didn't have any legs or anything either. I couldn't imagine anything surviving the bulldozer and front end loader and having the water pumped out of the pond, but then again I can't imagine this tadpole growing in just a month. So how fast do these things grow, or was this most likely a (very lucky) survivor? Galen Hekhuis NpD, JFR, GWA We are the CroMagnon of the future |
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