FYI IF you live West of the Rocky Mountains many frogs and even turtles are endangered in part because non native bullfrogs are eating them.

Do you have fish in your pond? I have lots of tadpoles and they grow up and leave in one season unless they are bull frog tadpoles and they take 2 seasons to mature. You can look for them with a flashlight at night to see what kind of frog or toad poles you have or go to a website that has frog and toad mating calls for identification. Be sure to leave them a way to get out of the pond when they are mature-thru climbing out on plants or stacked rocks to climb out on. Most of my tadpoles are toads and are very tiny when they mature. About dime size. You have to watch where you step around the pond when they leave since they all seem to leave at the same time. I enjoy the tadpoles and watching them mature. I do try to catch and relocate the bull frogs that find their way into my pond because they eat my fish babies and the smaller fish.

In May, my pond was full of tadpoles. I now have a few dozen. My goldfish ate most of them. I hope the ones left are now too big for the fish. If the tadpoles fit in the mouth of your fish, many may end up in the bellies of your fish. It may be a negative effect for the tadpoles, but not so bad for the fish. Maybe you can add a few at a time and see what happens. I thing the same thing will happen if they are released into any water that contains fish. Frogs lay hundreds of eggs because most tadpoles don't live long enough to mature into frogs.

Cook your lettuce leaves well before feeding them. That's what I fed my indoor ones with, and when they got to a certain size they loved it (but it has to be soft and squidgy!). You can cook them up first and freeze them and just chuck them in as needed. Now I know why Sean, with rare exception, I never see a dead stickelback! At this time of year I take the snails in the garden for a walk down the road to the park and that has helped keep their numbers down, but now I know what to do with the slugs. I have a bargain with the frogs and toads--I keep the little ones for them, and I take the big ones to the park. Whether it works in proved via the state of the Hostas!