16 Apr 04
Originally posted by RhymesterMy entire knowledge about frogs is weather forcasting:
Just found a live frog in a watering can with loads of frogspawn... transferred frog to parent's pond and the frogspawn to a container. Does a male frog need to have been around AFTER the spawn was produced for us to get tadpoles or is just like unfertilized chicken eggs?
Andrew
If the spawn is in the deepest parts then dry summer.If the spawn is near the edge,then rainy summer.
16 Apr 04
Originally posted by RhymesterNope, sorry. But I do remember something when I was about 6 that if you splatter 1 tadpole with a bit of dowelling all the other tadpoles would go into a frenzy and eat the dead one within seconds.
Just found a live frog in a watering can with loads of frogspawn... transferred frog to parent's pond and the frogspawn to a container. Does a male frog need to have been around AFTER the spawn was produced for us to get tadpoles or is just like unfertilized chicken eggs?
Andrew
(please do not try this!!! I was only 6 and my ethics hadn't gone as far as the rights of wrongs of cruelty yet)
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17 Apr 04
Originally posted by RhymesterGlad you were nice to the frog 🙂 - which was presumably a lady one. But the spawn won't grow unless its fertilised by male frog sperm. I don't know how long it will "wait" for fertilisation if it's not fertilised immediately (it usually is).
Just found a live frog in a watering can with loads of frogspawn... transferred frog to parent's pond and the frogspawn to a container. Does a male frog need to have been around AFTER the spawn was produced for us to get tadpoles or is just like unfertilized chicken eggs?
Andrew
