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We put in a koi pond one spring. It was just hours old, and we had no fish yet as we wanted it to season and grow some alga before introducing fish. Withing a few hours it was a toad orgy in our pond. We had a TON of tadpoles. The alga has just started to cover the rock on the bottom of the pond and the tadpoles cleaned the rocks completely. We had zillions of little baby toads. We would go out every evening and scoop up 50 or 60 and put them in a bucket. I would drive them a mile south to a natural creek and sing Born Free. My singing was enough to scare them down to the creek. We did that for 10 days or so. We still had numerous toads that escaped us which is OK.
We introduced fish and they got to work in the pond. Now every year the toads start singing in the spring, have a big orgy. and we get tadpoles. but the fish take care of the excess population. Only the fittest survive and we have just a few baby toads hopping around for a while before they vanish to find their personal territory.
Our male dachshund pokes them with his nose every spring and then starts frothing at the mouth. I think he is addicted to the frog's defense drug. He quits after a few episodes of frothy mouth. He must get a bad hangover or something.
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Glen
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1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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