Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Wildlife Management Adding bullfrog tadpoles

Any of you guys have experience with this? Ive read if you add tadpoles the frogs will be more likely to live in the pond and not migrate. Any thoughts?

My experience:

Continued presence of bullfrogs in a pond is, in my opinion, quite dependent on what predation is there. While bullfrog tadpoles stocked in my SMB and LMB ponds have maintained adult bullfrog presence in both of them, adults are notably more numerous in the SMB pond. Tadpoles are many, many times more numerous in the SMB pond.

It is fair to note that the ponds are only about 100 yards apart, so frogs may be moving form the SMB pond to the LMB pond.

Yeah ive seen snakes actually chase frogs on the bank so im sure they are food for just about everything around the pond. A few years ago when i bought the place there were a couple big bull frogs but they are long gone. I really like the noise they make at night.

There is a predator prey relationship with bullfrogs, mostly with mink. Once we got active mink, bullfrogs have become scarce.

Without habitat in the pond to allow the frogs and tadpoles to avoid predation, they will not be able to keep a self sustaining reproducing population.