Tadpoles (1 Viewer)

Tanny

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• Oct 14, 2006

• #1

What's going on! my Taddies are not changing to Froggies. They were spawned last April in a little pond I have outside my back door. Yesterday I gathered them all up and put them into a couple of bowls in the greenhouse.

 

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mothman

Well-known member

• Oct 14, 2006

• #2

Hi Tanny.

A percentage of the population stay as taddies overwinter,This acts as an insurance policy against land based disasters(Forest fire etc )

A percentage of Pupae do a similar thing by the way by overwintering twice (or more)

 

Last edited: Oct 15, 2006

David FG

The Big Dipper

• Oct 14, 2006

• #3

It's not at all uncommon, and it would be better if you left them, I think. I would imagine that if you somehow got them to become frogs now (in October) they might well have problems.

 

Tanny

Well-known member

• Oct 15, 2006

• #4

I never knew that Dave, Colin. I always thought they changed to frogs, or Toads each year. Are these fragile creatures able to withstand being frozen into the ice, or can they survive in little pockets of water under the ice. I will be putting them back into the pond after what you have said, and thanks fellers for teaching me something new about nature.

 

David FG

The Big Dipper

• Oct 15, 2006

• #5

It would have to be very cold indeed for anything other than the tiniest pond to freeze solid. Tadpoles (and indeed other aquatic animals) are quite able to live in the unfrozen water under the surface ice - in fact it is quite often warmer under there than it is out in the open.