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Index of Subjects This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070508090303010405050608 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks Fred - your reply has helped me decide to leave the algae and watch what happens! There are now not one, but three clumps of frog spawn - so my pond will be a busy place for a while and it will be interesting to see how things unfold! Eleanor On 07/05/2015 12:25 PM, Fred Schueler wrote: > On 5/7/2015 7:45 AM, Eleanor Lindsay wrote: >> In rapid order, following the final disappearance of ice from my pond at >> the very end of April (and before I had got round to skimming the >> floating green algae from the surface), first one wood frog appeared, >> then a second, (quickly followed by an approx 5cm blob of frog spawn!) >> and then a host of peeper voices - all of which are so welcome, but my >> question is: _do these frogs like/eat the floating algae?_ >> It does not enhance the pond appearance and in normal years I have >> usually cleared this well before their arrival, however, under the >> present circumstances I don't want to do anything to disrupt their >> return and, given the brief window of opportunity before the tadpoles >> appear, I would very much appreciate advice on whether at this point, >> and in the best interests of the frogs, I should leave or remove the >> algae. > > * some tadpoles eat some kinds of algae! You could leave the algae, > and see if the tadpoles seem to be nibbling on it - alternatively, > maybe there's plenty of food in your pond, and removing the algae is a > way of removing nutrients from the system (of course transforming > frogs also remove nutrients from the system). > > fred. > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad > Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ > Vulnerable Watersheds - http://vulnerablewaters.blogspot.ca/ > Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm > RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 > on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W > (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ > ------------------------------------------------------------ --------------070508090303010405050608 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-15" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <font size="+1">Thanks Fred - your reply has helped me decide </font>to leave the algae and watch what happens! There are now not one, but three clumps of frog spawn - so my pond will be a busy place for a while and it will be interesting to see how things unfold!<br> <br> Eleanor<br> <br> <br> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 07/05/2015 12:25 PM, Fred Schueler wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:554B83E1.6060000@istar.ca" type="cite">On 5/7/2015 7:45 AM, Eleanor Lindsay wrote: <br> <blockquote type="cite">In rapid order, following the final disappearance of ice from my pond at <br> the very end of April (and before I had got round to skimming the <br> floating green algae from the surface), first one wood frog appeared, <br> then a second, (quickly followed by an approx 5cm blob of frog spawn!) <br> and then a host of peeper voices - all of which are so welcome, but my <br> question is: _do these frogs like/eat the floating algae?_ <br> It does not enhance the pond appearance and in normal years I have <br> usually cleared this well before their arrival, however, under the <br> present circumstances I don't want to do anything to disrupt their <br> return and, given the brief window of opportunity before the tadpoles <br> appear, I would very much appreciate advice on whether at this point, <br> and in the best interests of the frogs, I should leave or remove the algae. <br> </blockquote> <br> * some tadpoles eat some kinds of algae! You could leave the algae, and see if the tadpoles seem to be nibbling on it - alternatively, maybe there's plenty of food in your pond, and removing the algae is a way of removing nutrients from the system (of course transforming frogs also remove nutrients from the system). <br> <br> fred. <br> ------------------------------------------------------------ <br> Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad <br> Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ <br> Vulnerable Watersheds - http://vulnerablewaters.blogspot.ca/ <br> Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm <br> RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 <br> on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W <br> (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ <br> ------------------------------------------------------------ <br> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> --------------070508090303010405050608--
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