Birds eat them ,how about Herons? A net will help above the pond.
TADPOLES!!!
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Pretty sure this guy is living near the pond. I've seen him Big dude.
https://www.tn.gov/twra/wildlife/reptiles/lizards/broad-headed-skink.html
But another site said they don't eat fish.
https://www.tn.gov/twra/wildlife/reptiles/lizards/broad-headed-skink.html
But another site said they don't eat fish.
I suppose you could put a camera up.
I have an aquarium in the shed someone gave me a few months ago, same one who gave me the tad tank.
I thought about setting it up to save the last three, but it only took a minute to say, "No way."
I'm not fooling with an aquarium. Besides they wouldn't be happy in that.
Of course they won't be happy being someone's dinner either, but...
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I thought about setting it up to save the last three, but it only took a minute to say, "No way."
I'm not fooling with an aquarium. Besides they wouldn't be happy in that.
Of course they won't be happy being someone's dinner either, but...
...
I thought of that too.
No, something found them and thinks they're tasty. I'm not going to fight with Mother Nature.
I suppose it could be a snake.
I saw one last year in the frog pond - that sucker had to be at least 5' long.
Yes, some snakes in Tennessee eat fish, including water snakes, cottonmouths, garter snakes, and racers. These snakes are often found near water sources and are good swimmers. Their diets can include non-game fish, crayfish, frogs, and toads. Snakes typically overpower their prey by grabbing it with their jaws and swallowing it whole
I saw one last year in the frog pond - that sucker had to be at least 5' long.
Yes, some snakes in Tennessee eat fish, including water snakes, cottonmouths, garter snakes, and racers. These snakes are often found near water sources and are good swimmers. Their diets can include non-game fish, crayfish, frogs, and toads. Snakes typically overpower their prey by grabbing it with their jaws and swallowing it whole
Bad day for fish. I don't see any left in the pond.
Cat woke me up at 4:30 this morning and we did a stake out by the fish pond. My flashlight hit the eyes of something in the wooded area and I saw it turn and scramble away. Definitely a mammal, maybe a feral cat, but the size, shape and color of a coon - but in 30 years I've never seen one around here.
But, it's a great year for frogs!
The tads are doing well and growing FAST. Don't see any legs on them yet.
I did find this little guy on my back porch just now - so tiny I thought it was a piece of a leaf! Smaller than the one I saw in the garden the other day.
Looks like this guy still has a tad bit of his tad tail left.
I saw his mama by the porch light last night, about 2".
Still none I've seen could possibly be big enough to eat 9 5"-6" goldfish!
Cat woke me up at 4:30 this morning and we did a stake out by the fish pond. My flashlight hit the eyes of something in the wooded area and I saw it turn and scramble away. Definitely a mammal, maybe a feral cat, but the size, shape and color of a coon - but in 30 years I've never seen one around here.
But, it's a great year for frogs!
The tads are doing well and growing FAST. Don't see any legs on them yet.
I did find this little guy on my back porch just now - so tiny I thought it was a piece of a leaf!
Smaller than the one I saw in the garden the other day.Looks like this guy still has a tad bit of his tad tail left.
I saw his mama by the porch light last night, about 2".
Still none I've seen could possibly be big enough to eat 9 5"-6" goldfish!
They love gold fish. And feed at night.
It has to be a nocturnal critter.
And whatever it is, it knocked over the iris clump I took out and stood up yesterday in the pond when I was looking for the fish. It would take something with heft to knock that over... even a fish fight with a frog or snake I don't think could have done that. And the fence wasn't knocked over. Coons are pretty crafty critters.
Still - I have never seen one here before.
Always a first time for everything.
Now that the fish are all eaten, I hope he doesn't get into the veggie garden next!!
I bought the most delicious watermelon at Wallyworld today!
Tads love it too.
They gobbled up the tomato I tossed in there the other day, too.
Tads love it too.
They gobbled up the tomato I tossed in there the other day, too.
I bet it was !
Snapping tu
Snapping Turtle will fix that Coons azz!
They're wrong about what tadpoles eat.
They're chowing down on a little dead frog. Fighting over it, actually.
Ferocious critters - it's a good thing they're so small or humans wouldn't have a chance!
They're chowing down on a little dead frog.
Fighting over it, actually.Ferocious critters - it's a good thing they're so small or humans wouldn't have a chance!
No telling what's in those ponds!!
Frogs are voracious cannibals!They're wrong about what tadpoles eat.
They're chowing down on a little dead frog.
Ferocious critters - it's a good thing they're so small or humans wouldn't have a chance!
I hope he lives in that nice terrarium and not that plastic box.
(I didn't like the mouse part!!
)Just came back to this thread. Cyanuric acid is a chlorine stabilizer. Chlorine in water exists as hypochlrous acid and hypochorite ion , the latter breaks down rapidly in sunlight.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6178841/
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