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Theres a (was) big puddle in our local park full of frogspawn. Its rapidly drying up though.
What's best to save the little wrigglies? Send the kids round with a jam jar and make a puddle in our garden we can keep topped up?
Absolutely loads of it in the Trossachs 2 weeks ago, never seen as much. Is tap water okay?....
Fill up a bucket with tap water an leave it for for at least 1/2 a day for chemicals to dissipate and bung em in there
Get some oxygenating weed in the bucket as well
when they hatch i found they quite like gem lettuce that has been boiled for a few minutes ,and then when they started getting legs moved onto koa carp fish food
We have small pond and usually we get some in it - but none this year 8-(
But I have to take it all out and put in buckets as other wise the newts eat it all
The reason frogs go at it like rabbits is to allow for a lot of the little wrigglers not to make it. There are various breeding and developmental stratagies that allow for things like this - like there being thousands of eggs elsewhere in much more sensible ponds. Tadpoles also speed up and slow down their development depending on how much water is in the pond - they're safer in water as tadpoles than on land as tiny frogs so they'll usually develop quite slowly bug if it starts to dry up they develop faster and get out.
If you make a puddle in your garden to keep topped up then you're going to be topping it up for a long time but ideally not with chlorinated water. If you successfully get them to adolescence ... whats you're plan year after year when they come back to breed?
Without intervention - like keeping them as pets in a tank - less than 1 percent of tadpoles that hatch make it to frog-hood. Only about 5% make it to the beginning of metamorphosis. If that wasn't the case there would be an awful lot of frogs.