Still got tadpoles with no legs!

[Chainhome]

Hello Everybody.
Has anyone else still got taddies with no legs?
I'm a bit worried about them with autumn coming up and temperatures
soon to start dropping.
I would have thought that they should be frogs by now and I was hoping
that there isn't something about my pond that's stopping them
developing?
Anyone got any ideas.
Thanks
CH


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Chainhome

[billfish]

Chainhome Wrote:
> Hello Everybody.
> Has anyone else still got taddies with no legs?
> I'm a bit worried about them with autumn coming up and temperatures
> soon to start dropping.
> I would have thought that they should be frogs by now and I was hoping
> that there isn't something about my pond that's stopping them
> developing?
> Anyone got any ideas.
> Thanks
> CH


I don't know why your tadpoles are slow to develop but I can tell you
that a friend of mine has a similar situation. He built his small
concrete pond in the shade of a large laburnum tree, the leaves and
seeds of which are toxic. He doesn't keep fish and the plants don't
seem to mind the poison, but the tadpoles never seem to grow up. I'm
half-tempted to try a glass or two of his pond water to see if it works
on the human aging process. (Not really, don't try this at home kids!)


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billfish

[Reel Mckoi]

"Chainhome" > wrote in message
...
>
> Hello Everybody.
> Has anyone else still got taddies with no legs?

$$ Yes. Bullfrogs take 2 years to mature and leave the water.

> I'm a bit worried about them with autumn coming up and temperatures
> soon to start dropping.

$$ They'll happily stay on the bottom all winter. I never find dead
pollywogs in the spring.

> I would have thought that they should be frogs by now and I was hoping
> that there isn't something about my pond that's stopping them
> developing?
> Anyone got any ideas.

$$ It's perfectly normal. Just let them be. Next year they'll turn into
frogs. ;-)
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McKoi.... frugal ponding since 1995...
My Pond Page http://tinyurl.com/cuq5b
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[Reel Mckoi]

"billfish" > wrote in message
...
> I don't know why your tadpoles are slow to develop but I can tell you
> that a friend of mine has a similar situation. He built his small
> concrete pond in the shade of a large laburnum tree, the leaves and
> seeds of which are toxic. He doesn't keep fish and the plants don't
> seem to mind the poison, but the tadpoles never seem to grow up. I'm
> half-tempted to try a glass or two of his pond water to see if it works
> on the human aging process. (Not really, don't try this at home kids!)
====================
They may grow faster if he feeds them. I accidentally stumbled onto this in
my plant propagation tanks. The one I was dropping flakes in because of a
few GF fry had tadpoles much larger than the tubs that I wasn't dropping
flakes in. They came up and just sucked those flakes down like candy.
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McKoi.... frugal ponding since 1995...
My Pond Page http://tinyurl.com/cuq5b
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[Derek Broughton]

Chainhome wrote:

> Has anyone else still got taddies with no legs?
> I'm a bit worried about them with autumn coming up and temperatures
> soon to start dropping.
> I would have thought that they should be frogs by now and I was hoping
> that there isn't something about my pond that's stopping them
> developing?

Bullfrogs generally don't develop legs until their second year.
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derek

[~Roy]

Generally......well do they or don''t they mister know-it-all? Can
they do it in 23 months, 14 months 28 months? "Generally", speaking I
think your lacking in your ability to comprehend....


On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:41:42 -0300, Derek Broughton
> wrote:

snip a legitimate question looking for a decent answer.......
>===<>Bullfrogs generally don't develop legs until their second year.


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[sean mckinney]

Re tadpole still legless

I think some UK tadpoles over winter as tadpoles, I had some do this
last year and this year too.


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sean mckinney

[Hal]

On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 20:07:49 +0000, sean mckinney
> wrote:

>
>Re tadpole still legless
>
>I think some UK tadpoles over winter as tadpoles, I had some do this
>last year and this year too.

See bullfrog tadpole.
http://rol.freenet.columbus.oh.us/frogs.html

Regards,

Hal