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Following the advice on this thread, I removed lots of frogspawn from the pond last and this year to allow the tadpoles to hatch and grow away from marauding newts. I've read that you can feed them goldfish food, so I'll be getting some today.. At what stage do I reintroduce them to the pond...

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An update. Thanks to the advice on here I bought some English water violet pondweed and cleaned a lot of the gloop out. I now have a thriving aquatic ecosystem of froglets, tadpoles of various sizes and stages of transition into frogs, loads of water snails and even a newt or two. I'm guessing...

Just thought I'd give you an update on amphibian developments. Thanks to advice on this thread I bought some British pondweed and put it in the pound and the bucket I'd transferred some of the tadpoles to. I also gave the bucket tadpoles some raw fish to eat although they didn't appear to like...

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Thanks. Any tips on what kind of weed and where to get it? I'm afraid it'll have to be tofu in later stages of development.

I have had frog spawn most years but recently no tadpoles - presumably because they weren't fertilised. I found 4 dead frogs under the ice 2 winters back and was amazed any had survived that and cat predation. But apparently so. There is a nasty frog virus doing the rounds - maybe that's it...

For the first time in a few years, the frog spawn in our cottage garden has hatched. The pond is in a shady spot with only green gloop and mosquito larvae in it. I want max frog development. I've scooped some tadpoles out and put them in a bucket in a sunnier spot but any tips on how to boost...