How to rid of tedpoles

I woke up one merning and thousands of small tedpoles hangging on the walls
of my pond. Is there any chemical that can kill these tedpoles without
harming the fish. What is the easiest way to get rid of them.

TIA,
Johnny

"Johnny" wrote in message
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I woke up one merning and thousands of small tedpoles
hangging on the walls
of my pond. Is there any chemical that can kill these
tedpoles without
harming the fish. What is the easiest way to get rid of
them.

TIA,
Johnny

Why do you want to kill all the tadpoles? I
had a similar number in my small, unfiltered pond
last year, and no harm came of it. Most
probably got eaten by snakes or birds, but
at any rate I never noticed a negative effect
on water quality or clarity, or plants, or
the minnows.

Gail
near San Antonio TX

No, there is no fish safe chemical that will kill tadpoles. They will change
into frogs or toads and leave the pond.


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in MY case, because there are a million of them they are on the SECOND
hatching and even though my pond is about 100 yards from the back porch the
racket the frogs make will drive you back into the house.
Add to that that frogs are snake bait....

You see where I am with this.

Kate

"Gail Futoran" wrote in message
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| "Johnny" wrote in message
| ...
| I woke up one merning and thousands of small tedpoles
| hangging on the walls
| of my pond. Is there any chemical that can kill these
| tedpoles without
| harming the fish. What is the easiest way to get rid of
| them.
|
| TIA,
| Johnny
|
| Why do you want to kill all the tadpoles? I
| had a similar number in my small, unfiltered pond
| last year, and no harm came of it. Most
| probably got eaten by snakes or birds, but
| at any rate I never noticed a negative effect
| on water quality or clarity, or plants, or
| the minnows.
|
| Gail
| near San Antonio TX
|
|

"Ka30P" wrote in message
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| No, there is no fish safe chemical that will kill tadpoles. They will
change
| into frogs or toads and leave the pond.
|

Nun Huh! They are like children, they make you THINK they are going to
leave but they keep coming back, and with their own little tadpoles.

;¬Þ

Kate



|
| kathy :-)
| algae primer
| http://hometown.aol.com/ka30p/myhomepage/garden.html

"SVTKate" wrote in message
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in MY case, because there are a million of them they are on the SECOND
hatching and even though my pond is about 100 yards from the back porch
the
racket the frogs make will drive you back into the house.
Add to that that frogs are snake bait....

You see where I am with this.

Kate

threes your answer... natural predation.....

to the op, how about getting a small catfish (or goldfish) to eat the
tadpoles?? they never last more than a few minutes in my pond before they
are fish food.. (free and natural balance)

HATH

Lost

"Johnny" wrote in message
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I woke up one merning and thousands of small tedpoles hangging on the
walls
of my pond. Is there any chemical that can kill these tedpoles without
harming the fish. What is the easiest way to get rid of them.

I may just be cranky this morning, but I find questions like this a bit...I
dunno...frustrating. You can't expect to build an outdoor habitat that
supports water life, and then want to kill the water life when it shows up.
That's just irresponsible.

BV.

"SVTKate" wrote:

in MY case, because there are a million of them they are on the SECOND
hatching and even though my pond is about 100 yards from the back porch the
racket the frogs make will drive you back into the house.

Don't worry about what will happen because it won't. Have you ever seen
any property inundated with frogs? It doesn't happen. Nature creates a
natural ballance. The bottom of my pond is convered with tadpoles and
the sides are swarming with them. I have millions of tadpoles in my
pond and I never have many frogs. Any pond attracts snakes. Water
snakes are part of the natural balance. I always have one water snake.
I am not sure where it mates, maybe they have a convention once a year.

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Not an option for me. I have tons of mollies, platys, fancy guppies and
swordtails in my pond. These fish would definetely eat all my fish. Or at
least the frys. It's not my intention to kill the tadpoles only if I can
prevent it from apearing in my pond. For now I'm netting them out bit by
bit.that I throw it in the lake near by. There's too much of them and it's
getting to me. It's very hard to net just them without netting the frys. My
pon is not that big to ignore the presents of tadpoles. Feeding also a
problem cause the tadpoles usually get the best of it. So far before this I
manage to take the frog out before they manage to lay and even then I
usually scoop put the eggs out. But this time I must have miss out the eggs
and now there's thousands of them swimming with my beautifull fish.
I just can't imagine thousands of little frogs jumping around in my yard.
Johnny


"Lostin1999" wrote in message
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"SVTKate" wrote in message
ink.net...
in MY case, because there are a million of them they are on the SECOND
hatching and even though my pond is about 100 yards from the back porch
the
racket the frogs make will drive you back into the house.
Add to that that frogs are snake bait....

You see where I am with this.

Kate

threes your answer... natural predation.....

to the op, how about getting a small catfish (or goldfish) to eat the
tadpoles?? they never last more than a few minutes in my pond before they
are fish food.. (free and natural balance)

HATH

Lost

"Johnny" wrote in message
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Not an option for me. I have tons of mollies, platys, fancy guppies and
swordtails in my pond. These fish would definetely eat all my fish. Or at
least the frys. It's not my intention to kill the tadpoles only if I can
prevent it from apearing in my pond. For now I'm netting them out bit by
bit.that I throw it in the lake near by.

OK, the only thing worse then trying to rid your pond of life, is taking
that life and moving it to a natural body of water. That nearby body
probably has the same species, but you should never toss life from your
water garden in to active and live body of water.

There's too much of them and it's
getting to me. It's very hard to net just them without netting the frys.
My
pon is not that big to ignore the presents of tadpoles. Feeding also a
problem cause the tadpoles usually get the best of it. So far before this
I
manage to take the frog out before they manage to lay and even then I
usually scoop put the eggs out. But this time I must have miss out the
eggs
and now there's thousands of them swimming with my beautifull fish.
I just can't imagine thousands of little frogs jumping around in my yard.

That just won't happen. I have had 100's, maybe even 1000's of egg/tads in
my pond. Right now, I have just 3-4 frogs in my pond. Nature takes care of
it.

BV.