Eggs, Fish and Frogs

Okay, the eggs on the plants in the kiddy pool apparently are two different
things. Some of them look just like baby guppies, so I am guessing they are
some kind of fish. They swim like fish. They are greyish and well, they
look like guppies to me. I called the farm store and they said some fat
head minnows were in the tank with the plants I bought..

The others just keep getting longer and blacker with one end round and the
other end flat. The ones that are hatched flutter around a bit and hang
vertically from the plants to rest.

I netted out everything that moved and put them in a tub with a water lily.
I put the plants with eggs I could see in the tub too. Everything else
gets some of that PP stuff as soon as my husband gets home with it.. I got
rid of the snails with some lettuce leaves.

Will the little fish and tadpoles eventually eat mosquito larvae or should I
put a mosquito dunk in the tub?

I went outside with a flashlight last night and watched the frog that
moved into the pond the day after we filled it up. I've seen him a couple
of times early in the morning but he disappears as soon as he sees me,
He's big for a frog I think, and sounds different than the two over by the
kiddy pool. He's not so loud, mostly grayish green with huge eyes. I
think he lives in the mud underneath the pickeral weed. If so, he probably
has been there for a year, because we grew the pickeral weed in an old sink
last summer and I didn't repot it. I just picked it up and moved it into
the pond.

Anyway thanks for the advice on the PP stuff and all the other help.

Pam wrote The ones that are hatched flutter around a bit and hang
vertically from the plants to rest.

This is what newly hatched tadpoles do until they use up their yolk sacks.

The fish will eventually eat mosquito larva. The tadpoles won't except by
accident. They are
algaeterians.

A big frog is either a green frog or a bullfrog.

This is a picture of a bullfrog
http://www.willowparkecology.com/ima...z/bullfrog.jpg

Here is a greenfrog
http://vergil.hackedtobits.com/greenfrog.jpg

The distinguishing characteristic is the ridge that starts at the back of the
eye. Bullfrog - it curves around the eardrum, greenfrog - it runs down the
back.


kathy :-)
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"Ka30P" wrote in message
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The distinguishing characteristic is the ridge that starts at the back of
the
eye. Bullfrog - it curves around the eardrum, greenfrog - it runs down the
back.

Thanks! I have been reading and I think it's a green frog. Your description
tells me just what to look for. Now, if he'll just cooperate! My cats are
going to be absolutely fascinated at the sight of me with with a flashlight
crawling around the pond tonight.. And the neighbors....well it''s been a
calm summer anyway... they need something new to talk about..