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Originally Posted by flatbutt
^Yup. Plus frogs keep their skin moist toads don't.
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That is the major difference.
When we put in our Koi pond, the wisdom was to let it run for a month or more before we put in any Koi to allow some alga to grow. The toads found that pond in days, and had an orgy. We had a huge mass of tadpoles. Once they changed into tiny little toads we would go out each night and gather up 100 or so toads the size of a pencil eraser in a bucket.
I took them a mile south to a creek, and I sang born free and poured them out. That would go on for days. No way was their enough food in our yard, and the creek was their best chance.
Now, 20 years later, the toads just appear like magic, and start singing. There is several cycles of orgies and lots of tadpoles, but the Koi eat most of them. Each year we have a few dozen little baby toads in the yard, and they manage to get to the neighbors yards and our front yard.
Last year we actually had one frog, with wet skin singing. It also just showed up.
All those black specks are tadpoles.
The funniest question one neighbor asked is where did we buy the toads. They are part of the wildlife and we can't and control them at all. I have no doubt many of our neighbors hear the toads singing at night in the spring.
The pond also brought in a lot of blue tailed skinks, birds, and dragoon flies.