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Frogs are natural with ponds, they love them and to me a sign that all is well. Ours is not even done and the frogs and toads have moved in.
frogs are cool but trying to sleep with them out side your bedroom door?? GOOD LUCK...
We have at least three frogs in the pond. One day last week we were sitting outside. My wife said look at that pretty butterfly. I looked up and saw a splash, but no butterfly.
I started out this year with quite a few frogs.. I love to hear them croaking,but they are gone!! Ever since I put the uv in & the pond is so clear, they seem to have moved away.I have 1 baby frog living in a hole that gets rain water in it close to the pond.Don't they like clear ???
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Part of our property is woods, we have tons of tree frogs, toads croaking all night, so a few pond frogs won't add much more noise. And our neighbors green pool has frogs.
In Western Washington, we only have two common frogs. Tree frogs and red-legged. The tree frogs are quite small, and very noisy in the spring. The red-leggeds are larger frogs. They are very quiet. You might get a little squeak out of them if you surprise one.
Bullfrogs have been introduced here from the east coast. They're a plague. They eat everything and unhinge the natural amphibian populations. We have a "wild" pond between our house and the creek which houses both species of frogs as well as newts, Northwestern salamanders, long-toed salamanders, and probably a few other species of salamander. Fortunately, bullfrogs have not discovered it.
Although thousands of tree frogs hang out in the wild pond, they appear to be only occasional visitors to our managed backyard pond. The "pond" was until recently a plastic tank. Its vertical walls didn't lend to easy escape, so maybe that scared off the frogs? We ripped it out just a few weeks ago. Found one long-toed salamander in the tank during the demolition project. Long-toeds are aquatic salamanders, meaning they lay their eggs in water. Took it down to the creek.
Our new pond has a gradual rock bank, so we may have more frogs and salamanders visiting. I don't know how smart these guys are about assessing the likelihood of egg survival, but I'd imagine they can figure out that those orange fish swirling around might not be a good sign...
Bullfrogs have been introduced here from the east coast. They're a plague. They eat everything and unhinge the natural amphibian populations. We have a "wild" pond between our house and the creek which houses both species of frogs as well as newts, Northwestern salamanders, long-toed salamanders, and probably a few other species of salamander. Fortunately, bullfrogs have not discovered it.
Although thousands of tree frogs hang out in the wild pond, they appear to be only occasional visitors to our managed backyard pond. The "pond" was until recently a plastic tank. Its vertical walls didn't lend to easy escape, so maybe that scared off the frogs? We ripped it out just a few weeks ago. Found one long-toed salamander in the tank during the demolition project. Long-toeds are aquatic salamanders, meaning they lay their eggs in water. Took it down to the creek.
Our new pond has a gradual rock bank, so we may have more frogs and salamanders visiting. I don't know how smart these guys are about assessing the likelihood of egg survival, but I'd imagine they can figure out that those orange fish swirling around might not be a good sign...
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I am making a walk out area for any critters that fall in. Also rock caves, gravel shelves, and plants to help out anything that wants to visit and stay.
The pond has a shallow edge (3 inches deep) around it with pea gravel and rocks to also help anything that gets in to get out.
The pond has a shallow edge (3 inches deep) around it with pea gravel and rocks to also help anything that gets in to get out.
Frogs - The first few years of my life were on a farm in Eastern Colorado. There was a dirt road that ran a past our farm. As I remember, there was a very low place in the road about a half mile from our house. In that part of Colorado it didn't rain very much. Once every year or two we would get what was called a cloud burst. This low place would fill with water and frogs would come out. Anybody have an idea where the frogs stayed between cloud bursts?
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They are dehydrated frogs, add water and poof you have a frog
Same thing happened in arizona, when it rained they showed up, think they are more like toads, but when there is water they enjoy it.
Same thing happened in arizona, when it rained they showed up, think they are more like toads, but when there is water they enjoy it.
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as far as i know frogs dont live in the pond and mainly go there to breed and some over winter in bottom of ponds for the main part they live on land ...you can find them under rocks and the like during the winter too
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Okay, so this may post twice. I hit something that deleted my whole post I THINK.
Anyhow, when I put my pond in last summer a ponder friend gave me five tiny tadpoles. By the end of the summer we were seeing two of them, much larger, basking in the sun on a rock just under the water. This spring they appeared again, this time with back legs, and by July they were fully frogs. Haven't heard them make noise yet, but the water skater population has declined considerably - a good thing cuz they were out of hand. I thought they were going to be bullfrogs, but they turned into green frogs... you can tell the difference by the ridge that runs from their eye past their ear drum. In bullfrogs the ridge wraps around the drum and then goes across the back, in a green frog it just goes straight back across the top of the drum. I like em. Sometimes we scare 'em and they fling themselves in a panic out into the center of the pond. Other times we see them sitting on the lily pads. FUN!
J
Anyhow, when I put my pond in last summer a ponder friend gave me five tiny tadpoles. By the end of the summer we were seeing two of them, much larger, basking in the sun on a rock just under the water. This spring they appeared again, this time with back legs, and by July they were fully frogs. Haven't heard them make noise yet, but the water skater population has declined considerably - a good thing cuz they were out of hand. I thought they were going to be bullfrogs, but they turned into green frogs... you can tell the difference by the ridge that runs from their eye past their ear drum. In bullfrogs the ridge wraps around the drum and then goes across the back, in a green frog it just goes straight back across the top of the drum. I like em. Sometimes we scare 'em and they fling themselves in a panic out into the center of the pond. Other times we see them sitting on the lily pads. FUN!
J
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Our neighbor is waiting for our pond to be ready for frogs, her green pool is full of tadpoles and some adults. We have some that have appeared on their own, well more than some, all sizes, they seem to hang out in the damp areas, not in the water it self.