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17-04-2007, 12:52 PM
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| |  Toad spawn!!!!!
OK, I think I've calmed down enough to post now. MAYBE 
I have what I think is toadspawn in my smaller pond.
Right now, I can hear a cheeping croak which has been going on all morning, and when I went out half an hour ago I saw this: 
It seems quite small. Does it expand after being laid? I'd go and have another look but I don't want to disturb the toad-love.
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17-04-2007, 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by kaitkaitkait  OK, I think I've calmed down enough to post now. MAYBE
I have what I think is toadspawn in my smaller pond.
Right now, I can hear a cheeping croak which has been going on all morning, and when I went out half an hour ago I saw this:
It seems quite small. Does it expand after being laid? I'd go and have another look but I don't want to disturb the toad-love. | definately toadspawn, but no it doesn't tend to get much bigger than this congratulations!!!  |
17-04-2007, 01:46 PM
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Yup, most certainly toad, congrats. |
17-04-2007, 01:57 PM
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Thanks for the congratulations
And I'm beaming, because that pond is not even quite a year old!
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17-04-2007, 03:01 PM
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We had toad spawn within months of building the pond Have you got newts? We got them about the same time as the toads. |
17-04-2007, 06:41 PM
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Kayleigh, I haven't seen any newts as yet - but then again, I haven't seen any toads; and yet, we have toadspawn!
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17-04-2007, 09:15 PM
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I had not seen a newt in our garden for about 10 years but they were there just hiding. |
17-04-2007, 09:23 PM
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| | | Re: Toad spawn!!!!!
I think my toads are doing a very good job of hiding! Unless the spawn is the progeny of a secret tryst.
I do, however, have these guys... Cute pair of frogs! And the tiny one that lurks.
...though no frogspawn!
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17-04-2007, 09:33 PM
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oh you have such cute froggies, and obliging too. i kepp trying to sneak up on the frogs in our pond but they just dissappear into the water. if you want to encourage newts having some king of plant with foldable leaves in the water might help, as both smooth and great cresteds lay their eggs in a leaf and then fold the leaf to cover it up. we have a weird grass plant that's colonising our wildlife pond (we keep it in check though) and we found newt eggs this year. no great cresteds, but smooth/palmate definitely!
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17-04-2007, 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted by almostnormal oh you have such cute froggies, and obliging too. i kepp trying to sneak up on the frogs in our pond but they just dissappear into the water. if you want to encourage newts having some king of plant with foldable leaves in the water might help, as both smooth and great cresteds lay their eggs in a leaf and then fold the leaf to cover it up. we have a weird grass plant that's colonising our wildlife pond (we keep it in check though) and we found newt eggs this year. no great cresteds, but smooth/palmate definitely! | Hee hee, I had to sneak up on them very quietly to do it, and it took several attempts!
I'm expecting some more oxygenating weed (elodea crispa which I understand you have to keep an eye on so it doesnt' overrule everything) to arrive in the next day or so - so far I have only used hornwort but I suspect that's too brittle for a newt to fold.
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