frog pond??

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mdmoshier

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Hello,
I am looking to put in an outdoor pond in my backyard in Fairfield, CA USA. I have a lot of california tree frogs around and would love to incorperate them into a pond ecosystem. due to the mosquito population here i need some way to control them with a fish that will not eat the tadpoles. I have read that mosquito fish do eat them and are not a local fish and i was wondering if there were any safe or safer fish. I am not interested so much in a fish or koi pond. the frogs that I a have are already breeding in my above ground pool quite successfully.

any thoughts?
Thanks
 

garyfla

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Good ?? Hope you get some good answers I have the opposite problem . Wish I could find something that would eat the tadpoles lol
Florida is over run with invasive species particularly cane toads,Cuban tree frogs and I'm trying my best to discouage them
. There are chemical ways to prevent mosquitoes but have found fish the best long term and most reliable way. I used tropical fish for many years until the freeze of 08 so added some feeder goldfish Now have a gazillion goldfish and mosquitoes lol
Wouldn't think you'd have a problem with Mosquito fish but certainly not a very attractive choice.
Hopefully you'll get better answers?? lol gary
 

pbeemer

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mosquito fish will certainly keep the mosquitoes down, but in my experience they're a mean fish to everything in the tank / pond, harassing fish much larger than they are.

how about a decorative native US topminnow or shiner? while it gets damned cold up by Travis (by SoCal standards) those guys live in places where that icky white stuff falls out of the sky, so they'll do fine where you are.
 

mdmoshier

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i know that most fish will eat mosquito larvae, will the ones mentioned above be less likely to eat the tadpoles of the california tree frog??
 

Sawyer

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tadpoles are teeny when they are in a cluster and not yet formed so i imagine any fish could eat that sized tadpole.

i have a huge pond with loads of turtles and all sized fish and literally hundreds of frogs and toads around, the whole neighborhood has loads due to these ponds. you even have to be careful when driving or walking through the neighborhood or you'll squish them. so i imagine they could do pretty well even with some fish to keep mosquitoes down. your pond will be a lot smaller so the tads will have less places to hide but you could have lots of plants. i'd choose red roseys, mosquito fish can be aggressive.
 

Piranha86

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I'm a bit late for this thread...

But any fish will eat mosquito larvae. I agree with Rosy Reds, though. They are vigorous mosquito eaters and they are too tiny to eat tadpoles (at least the ones I have experience with). The frogs in my area (Rana spp., probably green frogs) come to our small pond every year, and we know where they come from. About a block down there is some woods and the marshy part floods every year. There are bajillions of frogs there at that time.
 
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