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Tons of Tadpoles and Tree frogs
Hello,
Here is a quick rundown.
I got a pool for exercise prior to knee surgery ( 9' x 18') we had a temp. RV garage to cove rover it.
Rain,Snow, hail and lots of wind... Bye-Bye cover, hello water and debris.
I being a procrastinator left the pool unchecked and uncleaned, you know, I'll just deal with it later.
Spring time arrives and I decide to tackle the pool.
Look in and surprise! Tons of Tadpoles. So, I start feeding them and changing roughly half the water in the pool out approximately every three days. Little tadpoles start to turn into frogs and climb up the side of the pool to rest and figure out what to do next. The birds and skinks are under the impression that the pool contains and all you can eat popcorn frog cafe, I am running around like a crazy woman yelling at birds and chasing off skinks. At this point we have a couple hundred froglets leaving the pool nightly and you can't take a step outside with out carefully examining every spot. There are tiny frogs in the planters, on the hose the wall, the handrail of the porch, all over the driveway there were even a couple on my husbands motorcycle and I would have sworn the one on the back had a tramp stamp
So by July most of them have gone on to do what little frogs do and I take all the stragglers out and put them in a baby pool, pressure wash my pool in hopes of getting at least a month or so of use out of it. My mistake was leaving a couple inches of water in the bottom when I finished up for the night.
Next morning, tons more eggs. So, I order pond plants for oxygenation and cover, buy more tadpole food and wait. But these eggs were laid in mid to late august. Now I have several hundred left, the water is 40 degrees and I have notice that many of the little guys just drowned rather than face the wind and cold out of the protected pool.
So, I started catching the ones that look like they are ready to go out on their own rather than let them die. Problem is there are so many of them and I am really not set up to over winter them if I really don't have to.
I just ordered pinhead crickets and flightless fruit flies and it looks like feeding these guys could cost a fortune it I tried to do it until spring and would they then be too dependent on being fed? Would they even know how to be a regular frog if released into the woods? And, mind you, this would be the least attractive choice. Is there anything else I can do to with them? It seems to me turning the little guys loose with temps dipping into the high thirties and low forties at night would mean certain death.
Help please?! Anyone?
Oh and these are American common gray tree frogs. And no, I am not selling them.
