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How many frogs is too many?

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WhoFedTheFish · 28/03/2025 07:23

moved into a house with a pond. Fish (koi) in the pond. This is our first spring here

noticed three frogs a few weeks ago. Delighted to have them

now it would appear we have ~25 frogs!

Where have they come from? Are they here to stay?

Has anyone got any frog knowledge to say whether this is normal?

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70isaLimitNotaTarget · 28/03/2025 22:19

I thought the *How many frogs is too many ? *
was How many frogs do I need to kiss before I find my Prince ?

deeahgwitch · 29/03/2025 07:55

offmynut · 28/03/2025 08:24

My wost nightmare is a frog my biggest fear is a frog no matter what size they are.
Id rather face a tiger snakes just not a frog.
I once pissed on a snake thats a whole different story.
Id have to move out and burn the place down the fear would over take me.

I’m like that with mice and rats.

deeahgwitch · 29/03/2025 08:02

BellissimoGecko · 28/03/2025 20:03

They only come back to their ancestral pond to breed. After they have laid frogspawn they will leave again.

Sounds like a v successful pond!

Where do they go ?
They can’t hop over high walls.

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Stickytreacle · 29/03/2025 08:15

WhoFedTheFish · 28/03/2025 21:36

So we inherited the ponds (we actually have two) which came with fish and netting. Think netting is there to stop herons getting the fish.

we have the pond cleaned out last summer, new filter/ pump etc fitted. .

there is a lack of plants etc in the pond, and adding these was a plan for this spring.

I can’t see any frogspawn at all on either pond, just shitloads of frogs!

Will go to the local pond place tomorrow and see about some plants and advice on some kind of exit arrangement (ramp or similar).

if we do get frogspawn, I hear the point about taking some out to avoid it getting eaten by the fish) can I just keep it in a big tub or does it need anything special? (I do recognise google is my friend here, but as you’re all here 😜)

The issue with koi is that they tend to dig about in plants and make a mess, it might be worth contacting a specialist who could advise. I have fish, just varieties of goldfish, and do have it planted, but I also dug a separate wildlife pond which solves the issues of wildlife and fish together..

BellissimoGecko · 29/03/2025 09:15

deeahgwitch · 29/03/2025 08:02

Where do they go ?
They can’t hop over high walls.

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Some don’t go far. They may stay in the garden. Others do travel, and live up to a mile from their ancestral pond. Can you imagine being a toad or a frog and having to negotiate roads, walls, fences and all the obstacles humans put in the way?

if they can go under a fence, they will. Otherwise, they have to go round it…

CocoKenny · 29/03/2025 09:16

offmynut · 28/03/2025 08:24

Same. 1 frog is too many

MrsSkylerWhite · 29/03/2025 10:18

ShodAndShadySenators · Yesterday 21:24

MrsSkylerWhite · Yesterday 10:55
My parents had hundreds in their pond!
The following year, they gathered up most of the frogspawn in buckets and drove it to a lake.

I don't want to be that poster but really, they shouldn't do this - guidance states that wildlife shouldn't be transferred from one body of water to another as the second pond/lake/whatever can be contaminated with diseases/toxic algae/pondweeds present in the first one. You don't know what you might also be pouring in alongside surplus spawn, so it's a total no-no.

No it’s fine, this was about 20 years ago. They’re more clued up now and no longer have a pond anyway.

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