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Where can I get some frog spawn for my 3 year old?
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I can't seem to find it in the wild, or is it too early yet?
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While agreeing that normally it is not advisable to "Transplant" wild life I dont think in the case of frog spawn it would matter that much as the frogs themselves often travel miles to reach the breeding ponds and god alone knows what they've picked up along the way. As to transplanting the spawn a forestry commision ranger I know regularly takes spawn from different sites to help kick start new pond developments and she's never had any problems
Well, believe it or not I went out a couple of hours after posting my question with my 3 year old and we found some in the margins of the local gravel pit.
We walked round the windward side and there were hundreds of mating toads in the shallows, but no spawn to start with and I thought maybe right place wrong time. But a little further on there was a nice blob of it - I have bought a fish tank to put in and transferred some of our pond water into it.
I'll take them back and release them when they are frogs.
We walked round the windward side and there were hundreds of mating toads in the shallows, but no spawn to start with and I thought maybe right place wrong time. But a little further on there was a nice blob of it - I have bought a fish tank to put in and transferred some of our pond water into it.
I'll take them back and release them when they are frogs.
http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/n ews-archive/2005/06/24/police-leap-into-action -over-sale-of-frogspawn-61634-15662007/
That is about selling it, but the same authority also act when anyone attempts to relocate it
That is about selling it, but the same authority also act when anyone attempts to relocate it
It takes about four weeks for the eggs (spawn) to hatch into tadpoles, over which time the spawn requires good light and water flow, they then require oxygen from the water to breathe and will feed on plants.
The water you have transferred from your own pond may contain disease and unwanted plants not from their natural habitat.
The water you have transferred from your own pond may contain disease and unwanted plants not from their natural habitat.
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