URGENT :Please Help....frogspawn

[Krewella]

Hi

I really need some quick advice. I have just moved into a house with a garden. I was clearing outside when I found mating frogs/toads under some ivy. I moved them to the top of the garden in an old plant trough. Have been checking them and found today a load of frog / toad spawn. My big problem is we don`t have a pond and no one we know has one and there are none near us. I think some of them have died with the cold over night and we are due heavy frost and snow this week. What can I do ? Can I put them in a bucket in the green house ?

Any advice really needed. Thanks

[brainfarmer]

sounds like these must be toads but im not an expert. my advice is to leave them alone nature has a way of sorting things out.

[Lance Morgan]

Originally Posted by brainfarmer

sounds like these must be toads but im not an expert. my advice is to leave them alone nature has a way of sorting things out.

frog spawn is laid in clumps and toad spawn is like ribbons. Any rate i suspect they will do better in water either way safe from predators and drying out in this strong wind.

[nightshade]

A bucket of water in the geenhouse is very sensible
now about digging that small pond

[Krewella]

Right at least I know they are frogs. brainfarmer you think like my husband ....me and my 9 year old daughter just can't do that. Have put them in green house in water. If anyone has a pond in north west london and would like them please get in touch. The pond is on the agenda but the house is in more need at the moment lol

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by Krewella

Right at least I know they are frogs. brainfarmer you think like my husband ....me and my 9 year old daughter just can't do that. Have put them in green house in water. If anyone has a pond in north west london and would like them please get in touch. The pond is on the agenda but the house is in more need at the moment lol

Get some pond weed from the aquatic garden centre if you can. It will oxygenate and keep the water clean. You could try a half barrel pond my frogs love it and I had frog spawn two years on the run. Keep them in the greenhouse and try to find out who has a pond close by. I suspect someone a few doors either way has one, for them to be mating in your garden.

[Krewella]

thanks for that will get some tomorrow and never thought of the barrel idea might see what garden center has.

[nightshade]

I had frogs living in the long grass at the top of my garden when I first moved in
I enquired about ponds,none in the area so I built one that started the ball rolling
I have a half barrel,cost £10 and an offcut of butyl liner to waterproof it,there are now 3 goldfish and a frog in it just outside my patio door

[Kayleigh]

Originally Posted by Krewella

thanks for that will get some tomorrow and never thought of the barrel idea might see what garden center has.

Barrels are common in garden centres at the moment try to get one that you can see holds water as some do. We had to water proof ours with an aquatic stuff from a builders, it comes in a tin and you paint it on. But you have to let it dry completely before the plants and animals go in. Make sure you have lots of oxygenaters.

[zharca]

We have frog spawn in our little pond and I'm rather worried about what will happen if we do get snow or the pond freezes. Would this kill them?

I can cover the corner of the pond where the spawn is, which might help.