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Tue, Sep 13, 11 at 18:00
| I have a small 30 gallon rubbermaid garden pond, no fish or anything just aquatic plants. The pond is only about 15" deep and freezes solid every winter.
A few springs ago i found a poor dead frog that must have overwintered in there without me knowing it, and he froze along with the pond. Now I notice i have another frog in there all summer long, its still warm out, 80's, but i know this frog, which i think is a green or leopard frog, is going to overwinter again inside this tiny pond. I dont know what to do...i dont want this poor frog to die. Should i take him out and relocate him? or would a deicer work? if they even sell them for that small of a pond? would it even work since its so small and freezes solid? |
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| I would relocte it but a deicer will work. When the water gets cold they are real easy to catch to relocate. |
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- Posted by pashta_2006 Z4 ADK NY (pashta@aol.com) on Wed, Sep 14, 11 at 17:01
| I agree. In this situation I would relocate it. |
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- Posted by sleeplessinftwayne z4-5 IND (My Page) on Thu, Sep 15, 11 at 18:12
| An easy fix is to put a large pot of loose soil next to your little pond. I often found small frogs in unsealed bags of potting soil that had been kept outside over the winter when I had a large greenhouse. Sadly, I also found them in bags of lime. That didn't do them any good, at all. |
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| thanks :) I got a better look at him yesterday, hes a Green frog. I will catch him in the next coming weeks and relocate him, right now hes still too active for me to catch. Now when I relocate him, is a small running stream ok to release him in? |
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