stevegough
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 posted on 9/3/11 at 08:28 PM |
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Toad or a frog?
Photo taken 10 mins ago in th'garden - anyone know which it is? and will it harm me fish? Sorry about poor pic quality...
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Luego Locost C20XE.
Build start: October 6th 2008.
IVA passed Jan 28th 2011.
First drive Feb 10th 2011.
First show: Stoneleigh 1st/2nd May 2011.
'Used up' first engine may 3rd 2011!
Back on the road with 2nd engine may 24th
First PASA mad drive 26/7/11
Sold to Mike in Methyr Tydvil 19/03/14
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blakep82
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| posted on 9/3/11 at 08:31 PM |
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frog, i think.
frogs have smooth skin, toags have lumpy skin (not warts, and they won't give you warts either)
[Edited on 9/3/11 by blakep82]
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 9/3/11 at 08:31 PM |
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Toad.
Frogs are green.
Remember Kermit? 
Actually it's a common frog aka Rana temporaria
[Edited on 9/3/11 by Confused but excited.]
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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mookaloid
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| posted on 9/3/11 at 08:31 PM |
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I think it's a frog 
how big are the fish?
"That thing you're thinking - it wont be that."
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stevegough
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| posted on 9/3/11 at 08:36 PM |
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Mostly my fish are between 4 and 7 inches - 18 months old. But I have at least 1 baby - just over an inch long...
Here's my pond....
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Luego Locost C20XE.
Build start: October 6th 2008.
IVA passed Jan 28th 2011.
First drive Feb 10th 2011.
First show: Stoneleigh 1st/2nd May 2011.
'Used up' first engine may 3rd 2011!
Back on the road with 2nd engine may 24th
First PASA mad drive 26/7/11
Sold to Mike in Methyr Tydvil 19/03/14
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Canada EH!
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| posted on 9/3/11 at 09:03 PM |
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Just looking for a place to breed and put the eggs, Which your fish will enjoy as eggs or tadpoles. Not to worry.
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plantman
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| posted on 9/3/11 at 09:14 PM |
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Frog
Certain
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jacko
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| posted on 9/3/11 at 09:14 PM |
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I don't let frog's / toads in my pond it there is only a male frog /toad then it has been known that they get on the back of fish hold
them down and drowned the fish
And that is a pregnant frog in your photo
[Edited on 9/3/11 by jacko]
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plantman
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| posted on 9/3/11 at 09:17 PM |
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Frog
Certain
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v8kid
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| posted on 9/3/11 at 09:34 PM |
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fish eat little frogs & frogs eat little fish.
after I got frogs in my fish pond there were no more fry.
Actually I was relieved when all the fish died in 09/10 - I took 5 stone of dead fish out when it thawed and the blasted heron never came back either!
You'd be surprised how quickly the sales people at B&Q try and assist you after ignoring you for the past 15 minutes when you try and start a
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austin man
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| posted on 9/3/11 at 09:59 PM |
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Frogs can also scratch fish when swimming leading to fungal infections,
Life is like a bowl of fruit, funny how all the weird looking ones are left alone
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stevegough
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| posted on 9/3/11 at 10:44 PM |
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Thanks for all the info - next question - how do I deter or otherwise get rid of it / them?
Luego Locost C20XE.
Build start: October 6th 2008.
IVA passed Jan 28th 2011.
First drive Feb 10th 2011.
First show: Stoneleigh 1st/2nd May 2011.
'Used up' first engine may 3rd 2011!
Back on the road with 2nd engine may 24th
First PASA mad drive 26/7/11
Sold to Mike in Methyr Tydvil 19/03/14
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Peteff
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| posted on 9/3/11 at 10:58 PM |
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I can't see how the frog is going to get up the wall to the pond without a lot of help. They don't jump that high so don't leave
anything for it to climb up and you should be pretty safe. Jacko, how the f*$k can you drown a fish?
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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MikeR
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| posted on 9/3/11 at 11:10 PM |
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forget the frog, there be dragon's by your pond - i'd worry far more about that !!!!!!
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welderman
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| posted on 9/3/11 at 11:19 PM |
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My parents used to have a large pond and kept Koi carp, one day a rather large frog was erm attached to the very expensive Koi, it had its front
legs/fingers scooped into the fishes eye sockets, this then made the fish blind then it died !. Dad was rather unhappy, funny thing was mum told me
she used to stick straws up bull frogs bums, blow them up and pop them ha ha.
Thank's, Joe 
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Back on with the Fisher Fury R1
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Davey D
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| posted on 10/3/11 at 07:53 AM |
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We seem to have frogs in our pond all year round. Nothing bad has happened to any of out fish which are between 3" and 6". One year there
was a lot of spawn which i just scooped out, and put in the bin.
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02GF74
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| posted on 10/3/11 at 10:46 AM |
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I once came across a frog that had broken down on the motorway.
The AA came along and toad it away.
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stevegough
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| posted on 10/3/11 at 11:58 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeR
forget the frog, there be dragon's by your pond - i'd worry far more about that !!!!!!
MikeR - Leave Dippy alone - he's a very well behaved dragon, there to frighten the heron away (but he's also not very good at it -
I've seen the heron quite a few times -window shopping).
I am following the theory that given enough depth, the fish will escape - as 2/3rds of the pond is 1.2 m deep, he hasn't had any in 18
months...
Back to the Rana Temporaria (common frog - does that mean it talks with its mouth full, and dresses all scruffy?)
Thanks for all comments - and confused but exited for naming him (her)?
Jacko is right, you know, Peteff - you can drown fish - they extract o2 out of the water wiv their gills! And I'm not convinced about it being
unable to jump 18" into the pond.
Welderman - don't like the sound of frogs 'humping' my fish - would they produce frish ? But you can tell your mummy I'M not
going to shove a straw up and blow it up - what if it 'backfired?'
And 02GF74 - apart from having an unpronounceable username, that's a rubbish joke - and probably politically incorrect these days - the poor
frenchmen will be livid!
Oh, by the way - absolutely no sign of him/her this morning - in the garden, or in the pond - mind you, quite a few neighbours have got ponds level
with the ground, too!
[Edited on 10/3/11 by stevegough]
Luego Locost C20XE.
Build start: October 6th 2008.
IVA passed Jan 28th 2011.
First drive Feb 10th 2011.
First show: Stoneleigh 1st/2nd May 2011.
'Used up' first engine may 3rd 2011!
Back on the road with 2nd engine may 24th
First PASA mad drive 26/7/11
Sold to Mike in Methyr Tydvil 19/03/14
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Irony
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| posted on 10/3/11 at 04:25 PM |
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Thats a frog. A frog will also hop whereas toads (whilst can hop) walk. Having kept koi and fish and frogs etc I think that they are best kept away
from formal ponds such as yours. I don't think that there are only negatives to having frogs in your pond. However removing them is hard as
frogs can sniff out water from great distances. As far as I know the nearest other pond to mines is 3/4 of a mile away and yet the bloody frogs keep
coming back.
Neg
Might injury fish accidently
Might bring unwanted infection
Might eat baby fish
Frog poo in pond
Their breeding activities can instigate unwanted questions from small children
Positives
They eat slugs
Nature is nice etc
Tadpoles are funny and fish food
Scaring neighbours wife/daughter (well as a child this is what I did)
To me the negatives outweigh the somewhat lame positives, catch them and let them go at the local park etc.
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jacko
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| posted on 10/3/11 at 04:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Peteff
I can't see how the frog is going to get up the wall to the pond without a lot of help. They don't jump that high so don't leave
anything for it to climb up and you should be pretty safe. Jacko, how the f*$k can you drown a fish?
Believe me they can jump my pond has a wall just like the one in the photo and they get in it
toads / frogs get on the back of the fish and hold them down stopping the fish from getting air [ yes fish need air/ oxygen to breath ]
[Edited on 10/3/11 by jacko]
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