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Our newly constructed pond has some new life to it, but not sure what it is. Any one seen eggs like this before? 
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They look like newly hatched toad tadpoles to me...
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Steve, you called them eggs. I assume that they were not moving? Try to scoop some up and get a closer photo.
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i'm kinda w/ cj... 
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The long string of black lines all close together is a great clue. Toads lay their eggs in long strings like that, much like yellow perch. When the tadpoles first hatch, they lay on the bottom for a day or two jut as in the picture. Nice documentation though!
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Jeff, I did say eggs, but they were moving, so they had hatched, I was not aware that toads would lay their eggs in the water? Those that had not hatched yet were in a long long strand 3' foot long.
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Yes, toads lay their eggs in water. Toads do lay long strands of eggs...
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Those look a lot like toad tadpoles freshly hatched.
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