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Toad eggs Filter or no filter?
I have a ton of what I think are Toad eggs in my plant in my pond.
(Long strings of tiny black dots,after I "walked in" on the act yesterday) I want to Have my kids see them grow into toads, should I turn off my pond filter to prevent the tadpoles from getting sucked in? |
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Toad eggs Filter or no filter?
Rach wrote:
I have a ton of what I think are Toad eggs in my plant in my pond. (Long strings of tiny black dots,after I "walked in" on the act yesterday) I want to Have my kids see them grow into toads, should I turn off my pond filter to prevent the tadpoles from getting sucked in? Your tadpoles need filtered, moving water. I have a CalPump basket and foam as a prefilter to protect the pump and give fry a chance. If you tell us what kind of filter you have and whether it would be easy to rinse a prefilter, I'm sure someone will suggest something. -- Put the word aquaria in the subject to reply. Did you read the FAQ? http://faq.thekrib.com |
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Toad eggs Filter or no filter?
Altum wrote:
Rach wrote: I have a ton of what I think are Toad eggs in my plant in my pond. It does sound like toads - though iirc newts' are also in strings. (Long strings of tiny black dots,after I "walked in" on the act yesterday) I want to Have my kids see them grow into toads, should I turn off my pond filter to prevent the tadpoles from getting sucked in? Your tadpoles need filtered, moving water. But the eggs don't - I remember starting them in any old container as a kid. Tadpoles will survive in worse water than most fish, too. If you want the kids to see them develop - and I agree it's well worthwile - I'd suggest collecting some and letting them develop in an aquarium. The one year I had a really good collection of toad tads, I didn't really get much of a chance to see them develop. It seemed like one day I had hundreds of tads with hind legs and tails, and next time I looked they had all left the pond (and I'd find the little guys every time I disturbed a rock). -- derek |
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Toad eggs Filter or no filter?
"Rach" wrote in message oups.com... I have a ton of what I think are Toad eggs in my plant in my pond. (Long strings of tiny black dots,after I "walked in" on the act yesterday) I want to Have my kids see them grow into toads, should I turn off my pond filter to prevent the tadpoles from getting sucked in? ============================= You can put some kind of guard over the intake. I use two black pond-plant baskets wired together like clamshells, pump inside. they don't get sucked in. -- Koi-Lo.... Frugal ponding since 1995. Aquariums since 1952. My Pond & Aquarium Pages: http://tinyurl.com/9do58 rec.pond's FAQ are at: http://www.geocities.com/justinm090/faq.html ~~~ }((((o ~~~ }{{{{o ~~~ }(((((o |
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Toad eggs Filter or no filter?
Derek Broughton wrote:
Altum wrote: Rach wrote: I have a ton of what I think are Toad eggs in my plant in my pond. It does sound like toads - though iirc newts' are also in strings. (Long strings of tiny black dots,after I "walked in" on the act yesterday) I want to Have my kids see them grow into toads, should I turn off my pond filter to prevent the tadpoles from getting sucked in? Your tadpoles need filtered, moving water. But the eggs don't - I remember starting them in any old container as a kid. Tadpoles will survive in worse water than most fish, too. If you want the kids to see them develop - and I agree it's well worthwile - I'd suggest collecting some and letting them develop in an aquarium. The one year I had a really good collection of toad tads, I didn't really get much of a chance to see them develop. It seemed like one day I had hundreds of tads with hind legs and tails, and next time I looked they had all left the pond (and I'd find the little guys every time I disturbed a rock). My only proviso with that is not bringing the spawn into a warm house too soon, IME, makes them hatch too early...better to wait until the spawn is a little better developed...it broke my heart when I was trying to show the development of tadpoles to the kids but brought the stuff in too early - they "hatched" way too early and did not survive :-( Gill |
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Toad eggs Filter or no filter?
Gill Passman wrote:
Derek Broughton wrote: I'd suggest collecting some and letting them develop in an aquarium. The one year I had a really good collection of toad tads, I didn't really get much of a chance to see them develop. It seemed like one day I had hundreds of tads with hind legs and tails, and next time I looked they had all left the pond (and I'd find the little guys every time I disturbed a rock). My only proviso with that is not bringing the spawn into a warm house too soon, IME, makes them hatch too early...better to wait until the spawn is a little better developed...it broke my heart when I was trying to show the development of tadpoles to the kids but brought the stuff in too early - they "hatched" way too early and did not survive :-( Oh, good point. I haven't done it for about 40 years! -- derek |
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