Help me identify these eggs

When in doubt fill a jar and bring it in the house, a favorite activity around
here ;-)

Frog tadpoles are greenish-brownish and have wavy, broader tails.
Toad tadpoles are black and have whip like tails.
Salamanders and newts will have visible gills and be longer in the body.

When you've IDed them put them back in the pond so you don't have baby hoppers
making their way to the white porcelain pond in the bathroom at 5am in the
morning (been there, done that!).


kathy :-)
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Offbreed wrote in message ...
Dave wrote:

Strings of eggs just appeared in our pond this morning. We have Koi
and goldfish. We've had a number of tadpoles, but these are
definitely not toad/frogs.

Can anyone identify these eggs?

http://www.lutzfamily.net/temp/eggs1.jpg

Any salamanders in the area?

Thank you all for the help! We've seen clumps of eggs before, and
thought those were toads as we had 100s of tadpoles and later toads.

Dave wrote:

Strings of eggs just appeared in our pond this morning. We have Koi
and goldfish. We've had a number of tadpoles, but these are
definitely not toad/frogs.

Can anyone identify these eggs?

http://www.lutzfamily.net/temp/eggs1.jpg

Any salamanders in the area?

Toads..for sure.

Jim

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"Dave" wrote in message
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Strings of eggs just appeared in our pond this morning. We have Koi
and goldfish. We've had a number of tadpoles, but these are
definitely not toad/frogs.

Can anyone identify these eggs?

http://www.lutzfamily.net/temp/eggs1.jpg

Thanks,

Dave

Toads..for sure.

Jim

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"Dave" wrote in message
om...
Strings of eggs just appeared in our pond this morning. We have Koi
and goldfish. We've had a number of tadpoles, but these are
definitely not toad/frogs.

Can anyone identify these eggs?

http://www.lutzfamily.net/temp/eggs1.jpg

Thanks,

Dave

Looks like you are going to have many more small little tadpoles.
From my experience those are toad eggs and will turn into thousands of
small black tadpoles - great for algea cleaning of your pond.

Rick


Strings of eggs just appeared in our pond this morning. We have Koi
and goldfish. We've had a number of tadpoles, but these are
definitely not toad/frogs.

Can anyone identify these eggs?

http://www.lutzfamily.net/temp/eggs1.jpg

Thanks,

Dave

Yes -- the eggs have evolved into tiny black tadpoles! :-)

It now looks like one of our Koi is pregnant! We're very excited. I
will hopefully have new pictures to post soon.

-- Dave

(Chester Deja) wrote in message . com...
Looks like you are going to have many more small little tadpoles.
From my experience those are toad eggs and will turn into thousands of
small black tadpoles - great for algea cleaning of your pond.

Rick


Strings of eggs just appeared in our pond this morning. We have Koi
and goldfish. We've had a number of tadpoles, but these are
definitely not toad/frogs.

Can anyone identify these eggs?

http://www.lutzfamily.net/temp/eggs1.jpg

Thanks,

Dave

I'm getting a little excited myself! I was preparing a garden to grow
melons later in the season and dug up a huge toad. Looked like she
could have about a trillion eggs in her. I set her under the one
remaining brush pile where she dug in for more nap time. The night
time temps are around the mid fifties with low humidity, so it may be
a while longer before they come out. (She was about 8 inches down!)

The few pond plants i have are all growing well. All my parrot feather
dies out in the summer and comes back in the winter. Kinda
backasswards. I have a good algae bloom for the babies i am about to
recieve. And this year i will do partial water changes and hope for
the best. If i see the GF in distress, i will move two of them inside,
but i am not going to do what i did last year, move most of the tads
to a kiddie pool and watch this mass exodus of death. I felt real bad
and real stupid.

Enjoy your babies!!!!!



On 24 Mar 2004 20:14:13 -0800, (Dave) wrote:

Yes -- the eggs have evolved into tiny black tadpoles! :-)

It now looks like one of our Koi is pregnant! We're very excited. I
will hopefully have new pictures to post soon.

-- Dave

(Chester Deja) wrote in message
. com...
Looks like you are going to have many more small little tadpoles.
From my experience those are toad eggs and will turn into thousands
of
small black tadpoles - great for algea cleaning of your pond.

Rick


Strings of eggs just appeared in our pond this morning. We have
Koi
and goldfish. We've had a number of tadpoles, but these are
definitely not toad/frogs.

Can anyone identify these eggs?

http://www.lutzfamily.net/temp/eggs1.jpg

Thanks,

Dave

I'm getting a little excited myself! I was preparing a garden to grow
melons later in the season and dug up a huge toad. Looked like she
could have about a trillion eggs in her. I set her under the one
remaining brush pile where she dug in for more nap time. The night
time temps are around the mid fifties with low humidity, so it may be
a while longer before they come out. (She was about 8 inches down!)

The few pond plants i have are all growing well. All my parrot feather
dies out in the summer and comes back in the winter. Kinda
backasswards. I have a good algae bloom for the babies i am about to
recieve. And this year i will do partial water changes and hope for
the best. If i see the GF in distress, i will move two of them inside,
but i am not going to do what i did last year, move most of the tads
to a kiddie pool and watch this mass exodus of death. I felt real bad
and real stupid.

Enjoy your babies!!!!!



On 24 Mar 2004 20:14:13 -0800, (Dave) wrote:

Yes -- the eggs have evolved into tiny black tadpoles! :-)

It now looks like one of our Koi is pregnant! We're very excited. I
will hopefully have new pictures to post soon.

-- Dave

(Chester Deja) wrote in message
. com...
Looks like you are going to have many more small little tadpoles.
From my experience those are toad eggs and will turn into thousands
of
small black tadpoles - great for algea cleaning of your pond.

Rick


Strings of eggs just appeared in our pond this morning. We have
Koi
and goldfish. We've had a number of tadpoles, but these are
definitely not toad/frogs.

Can anyone identify these eggs?

http://www.lutzfamily.net/temp/eggs1.jpg

Thanks,

Dave

Yes -- the eggs have evolved into tiny black tadpoles! :-)

It now looks like one of our Koi is pregnant! We're very excited. I
will hopefully have new pictures to post soon.

-- Dave

(Chester Deja) wrote in message . com...
Looks like you are going to have many more small little tadpoles.
From my experience those are toad eggs and will turn into thousands of
small black tadpoles - great for algea cleaning of your pond.

Rick


Strings of eggs just appeared in our pond this morning. We have Koi
and goldfish. We've had a number of tadpoles, but these are
definitely not toad/frogs.

Can anyone identify these eggs?

http://www.lutzfamily.net/temp/eggs1.jpg

Thanks,

Dave