Good news/bad news on the tadpole front.
This year we are able to start with some actual frog spawn kindly donated by my mother.
You may remember that last year I added a new water barrel, filled it with rocks, plants and stuff. I added some tadpoles last year and they just disappeared straight away. This year I am thinking that the barrel must have stabilised and so added a lump of spawn to that and a smaller lump to this flat water pool container thing.
Anyway, the spawn in the water barrel appears to just sink straight away. Very dissapointing. I feel like i have committed a frog massacre. Same with the other container. ho hum.
My mum is a bit of a frog whisperer it would appear.
We were fiddling about with her pond when she lifts up some plant in a pot she has floating and it was pandemonium – we counted around 14 frogs on all shapes and sizes and colours. I don’t know how she does it. The smallest one was not much bigger that the finger nail sized babies when they first leave the pond.
This year we are able to start with some actual frog spawn kindly donated by my mother.
You may remember that last year I added a new water barrel, filled it with rocks, plants and stuff. I added some tadpoles last year and they just disappeared straight away. This year I am thinking that the barrel must have stabilised and so added a lump of spawn to that and a smaller lump to this flat water pool container thing.
Anyway, the spawn in the water barrel appears to just sink straight away. Very dissapointing. I feel like i have committed a frog massacre. Same with the other container. ho hum.
My mum is a bit of a frog whisperer it would appear.
We were fiddling about with her pond when she lifts up some plant in a pot she has floating and it was pandemonium – we counted around 14 frogs on all shapes and sizes and colours. I don’t know how she does it. The smallest one was not much bigger that the finger nail sized babies when they first leave the pond.
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