It seems a bit early for the tadpoles to have emerged, I wonder what has caused them to drop off. If you check my pond in the morning time the tadpoles are all but non existent, but let the sun warm things a bit and there they are in massive numbers. You can see their little legs but they are far from leaving the water. I did read that toad-poles will also secrete a nasty tasting substance like the actual toads that can make them less appealing to being eaten. If that's the case, the toads at my place will be biblical here pretty soon. I have no fish in the pond to try to eat them and there are a ba-gillion of them.

It's good to see your FHM's established, my stocked 1000 count hardly shows themselves. I have witnessed a few males defending pallet/rock nests and one small group of what appeared to be females schooling, but no fry at this point. They have only been in the pond for a month and conditions have been up and down. I am anxiously waiting.


Fish on!,
Noel