any park with a pond should have frogs. and idk if a crayfish will cycle all that fast, i may be wrong
Tadpoles.
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My pond already has fish and bacteria. I bought it. If any of you guys live in long beach please tell me of any parks that are higly likely to have tadpoles or frogs. I've been to eldorado park and it has nothing. Just tell me what the park is called, where it is, and how to get there.
unless you bought biospira, you didnt do anything useful for that pond at all in the way of cycling.
quit being so demanding, and be patient, or nobody is going to help you, or feel sorry.
besides, the goldfish is going to eat any tadpoles or eggs you put in that pond.
quit being so demanding, and be patient, or nobody is going to help you, or feel sorry.
besides, the goldfish is going to eat any tadpoles or eggs you put in that pond.
I used bacteria rings, and when they come from an established tank with fish, they can work pretty good too.
Don't add anything living to an un-cyled pond unless you intend for it to die.
But with nothing to feed the bacteria they're going to die off anyways...
When I got the bacteria rings I also bought the feeder goldfish.
I'm also gonna buy leopard frog tadpoles at a petstore soon and if they can't stay in my pond after they become frogs, then I'll return them to my pet store.
Tadpoles are so freaking kawaii ololololol.
They're not. At circle pets, the cost 1-2 bucks.
Also they are about 2-3 inches, so they fish would just probably ignore them.
Also they are about 2-3 inches, so they fish would just probably ignore them.
Please DO NOT do this. The leopard frogs at the LFS are probably non-native southerns or plains leopards; these guys have a tendency to disperse soon after metamorphosis. Some may stick around the pond, but unless you've got the whole thing surrounded with a drift fence you will have released a number of exotic amphibians into the wild. Even if you manage to collect all the metamorphs, what are you going to do if the petstore won't take them? Do you have the heart to kill them? Because that's the only responsible course of action left to you at that point.
Introducing exotics is a serious problem. If you can't find a source for native tads, you'll just have to resign yourself to not introducing frogs in your pond.
Be patient, though, and you may have some of your local frogs colonize on their own. It depends on how close you are to a source population, but as mentioned above juvenile frogs often disperse far from their natal pond and colonize new waters.
Introducing exotics is a serious problem. If you can't find a source for native tads, you'll just have to resign yourself to not introducing frogs in your pond.
Be patient, though, and you may have some of your local frogs colonize on their own. It depends on how close you are to a source population, but as mentioned above juvenile frogs often disperse far from their natal pond and colonize new waters.
I agree, the western part of your state is already infected with non native leopard frogs...do you really want to set them loose in your area and chance destroying your local eco-system?
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