When we uncovered our pool this year
we found hundreds and hundreds of tadpoles, a couple of toads, a few
tree frogs, many slugs and 2 snakes. We managed to rescue them
all and found lots of families willing to take some of the tadpoles
off our hands home to watch change into frogs or toads. We
still have about 300 tadpoles and brought them into the house to
watch. They're so cute!! Especially their little mouths.
snake #1
snake #2
goodbye snakes
the few hundred tadpoles we have left
Here is one 5 days later....cute little
froglet...about every hour we find 10 more new froglets climbing the
sides. They grow their arms fast!
These have almost finished absorbing
their tails.
We tried to release some of them
into our koi pond....aren't they cute?...but a fish ate one so
we scooped them back up and plan to release them in the creek
instead where there are less big fish.
A few of our tadpoles developed
air bubbles in their stomach area. This one was the worse.
We read that in order to fix it we needed to scoop it up on a
spoon with only a little water and it will "burp" the air out.
We've been doing it for the past few days and the bubble is
about half the size now. Seems to be working.
update: We made it down to the
creek to release our little froglets.
