Troy, they will not stay around your pond for long, best to leave them in their own enviroment. Adult frogs will leave and try to get back to where you took them from and end up being killed or just dying, trying to get home. If you want frogs in and around your pond, wait until they arrive on their own. Or raise them from locally found frog spawn or tadpoles. Don't import them from outside of your immediate area. You end up could bringing in frogs, that are not supposed to be there. As was the case of the North American Bullfrog being introduced to the west coast of the North American continent. It has almost decimated the native frog populations in California and British Columbia. Frogs are endangered because of the loss of habitat, the use of pesticides, the strong ultraviolet rays from the sun and unfortunately, because of people not thinking about the adverse effects of moving them to areas where they should not be. "Horton"

Toad tadpoles don't taste good to fish so if you had some X-rated toad fun in your pond there should be some tadpoles. Do you have a turtle? They'll eat them. I'm in MI, too and I have very few tadpoles this year. Usually I have tons of tree frogs (one year there were almost 100 of them) and toads trilling but not this year. I have heard 3 male tree frogs and 2 male toads (they have given up and gone home now) but have yet to see any girls. No girls, no tadpoles. I have a few big green frog tadpoles in the stream and a few smaller ones we haven't identified yet but that's it. There are always a dozen green frogs in my pond but this is the first time I found the tadpoles in the stream. Mama frog was smart. Only toad tadpoles will survive in the big pond with the fish. Some S@B dug a huge shallow hole down the road from me, that was full of water all winter. He has been slowly filling it in over the last 3 months. I wonder if they went there instead? I'm not sure I want to go check because if they are there I'll feel the need to do something about it and I'm already disappointed with the DNR over a turtle incident from last week.

I hope this page will help you. Toads are in strings of eggs, frogs are in clusters. http://www.trentu.ca/biology/berrill/IdentificationTable.htm

QFT - buyorsell is right on. Unless you know for certain what amphibian is hatching in your pond, I would let it hatch. And, I can assure you that the learning process is a ton of fun! I have learned that toads lay eggs in long strings (or ribbons) and frogs lay eggs in one big huge mass. Cuban Tree frogs lay a qagillion-majillion little bitty eggs in one big huge mass. I have also learned to better recognize the sounds of the different frogs/toads. I have a 'spawn mat' in the pond, which is really just two artificial bamboo thing-a-bobs from the pet store. After a spawn, if I'm pretty darn certain I've got Cuban Tree frogs, I pull the spawn mat out and let it sit on the asphalt for a few days. This year, we have two young frogs that certainly spawned in our pond last year. It is so very cool to watch them this year. I am still not certain what my giant tadpoles where, but I do not have any cane toads around here, thank heavens. I quit trying to grow hornwort and cabomba in the pond; now I just grow lots of lilies. Personally, I would not use hydrogen peroxide in a water garden. Try the 'spawn mat' approach. I've found the amphibians far prefer my artificial spawn mats than the water lilies. You could also try putting in some gambusia. They are local fish, you can probably find them from your county mosquito control person, or any local pond. They are usually called mosquito fish. However, be known that they multiply like crazy. And based on the visual evidence at our county office, they don't eat healthy lily pad leaves. I am learning to approach water lilies the way I plant dill & fennel. A whole bunch for the local wildlife and a few for me. ~dianne Here is a link that might be useful: Some Small Native Freshwater Fish