keep your spawn to yourself!

[Gill Catton]

Here is valuable advice from froglife regarding frogspawn..
Froglife - conserving native frogs, toads, newts, lizards, snakes

transferring spawn between ponds might seem benign and even doing wildlife a favour but it could easily be the opposite......

[Adam Cheeseman]

It is one of the main ways that Crassula helmsii is transferred between water bodies too.

Cheers,

Adam

[demicav]

Originally Posted by Gill Catton

Here is valuable advice from froglife regarding frogspawn..
Froglife - conserving native frogs, toads, newts, lizards, snakes

transferring spawn between ponds might seem benign and even doing wildlife a favour but it could easily be the opposite......

Thanks Gill, very interesting read.

[Dogghound]

Yes glad someone has highlighted this. It is very important for our frog (and other amphibians) population and sound advice.

[Paul mabbott]

Have to agree, of course ... but ... within your garden, if you have empty pools or containers then do transfer portions of spawn to these - should something befall the population in your main pool then something will survive elsewhere. Soemthing goes wrong in our main pool every other year (at least) but we've managed to keep lots of frogs alive having transferred spawn to other containers/pools.

[Dogghound]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

Have to agree, of course ... but ... within your garden, if you have empty pools or containers then do transfer portions of spawn to these - should something befall the population in your main pool then something will survive elsewhere. Soemthing goes wrong in our main pool every other year (at least) but we've managed to keep lots of frogs alive having transferred spawn to other containers/pools.

I trust you put pond water in these containers? Its the change in water quality that often results in spawn mortality, plus make sure theres enough food there, mozzy larvae usually do that for you though

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by Paul mabbott

Have to agree, of course ... but ... within your garden, if you have empty pools or containers then do transfer portions of spawn to these - should something befall the population in your main pool then something will survive elsewhere. Soemthing goes wrong in our main pool every other year (at least) but we've managed to keep lots of frogs alive having transferred spawn to other containers/pools.

Quite right..Sometimes the water in my barrel goes rancid or the taddys cant get out of the barrel, so they get transferred to the big pond..