I love playing with my tree frogs. I go out, and start calling them, and they sing back. I love how nature works. The second they sense water......can be rain or me just watering the flowers.....they start up their mating calls. Isn't that wild? They must be able to smell or hear water and know that their eggs might have a chance to survive, and they start singing. Even if I water with the hose for just a short time, they start singing.

Midwesternerr's advice is right. Another de-chlorinating product is "Ammo-Lock". It also helps remove ammonia from the water (caused by lots of tadpoles pooping). I use a pre-formed stiff pond liner, rather than a flexible one, to stand up to tree roots and punctures better. To avoid trapping little critters in the pond: One can also use water plants and thin, flat rocks for "ramps" to let young emerging frogs/toad and salamanders. I have a potted water willow in my small pond and the roots grow out 8-10" from the edge of the pot. The top of the pot is just above the water level, but little critters can climb out of the water via the floating/partly submerged mat of roots. Then they can walk up and exit on the little ramp I have bridging the willow pot to the pond edge. I have 2 other 'ramps' in other parts of the pond and I try and keep it full. Most emerging frogs and toads can climb the smooth plastic sides without ramps... You can get an inexpensive pump filter for small pond pumps. The one I use is essentially a plastic box around several layers of foam filter. The pump body and water intake goes inside the box, and water passes through 5-6 layers of the foam material before entering the pump. The filters/distance means even tiny critters do not get sucked into the pump. You can remove and clean it easily without disturbing the tadpoles. I recommend letting algae grow on the sides of the pond. Tadpoles eat a lot and they love munching algae. I also bring duckweed to the pond - it helps provide food, oxygen and clean the water (tadpoles poop a lot of nutrients). Besides the water willow, I have Pickerel Weed, and Lizard's tail in pots in the pond. You can supplement your tadpole's pond food with lettuce (they like Red Leaf Lettuce the best, but larger tadpoles can eat Romaine). They also LOVE daylily petals. Every now and then, especially when it's about to rain cats and dogs, I let out a few inches of water from the pond. This gets rid of some of the "old water" in favor of new. Be sure there is some shady, leaf-litter habitat near your pond. Ideally connected to larger expanses of such habitat. If the pond is in a sunny area surrounded by mowed grass, the emerging frogs and toads will have a long "death march" to safety. Finally, even if you do not have frogs/toads in your yard now, you can transplant tadpoles or tiny toads/frogs from elsewhere. But be sure to get them from ephemeral wetlands if you live in suburbia - Bullfrogs, Pig Frogs, Pickerel Frogs, etc. need larger water sources. Or get tiny toads as they emerge from their nurseries elsewhere.

Hi, I filled it in too, under healthy frogs! Just spent the afternoon in the pond getting rid of yellow globby things (the barley straw is covered in it, but maybe in time it will work?). No ill or dead amphibians about--just no amphibians around the pond. See froglets on occasion. I think this is due to the snakes which like water, so they have hopped to someplace else in the garden. Pity as usually this time of year I don't see a lot of frogs but do see the toads snoozing in a sun spot in the pond. any ideas about catching and moving snakes? I like snakes, but I am very very fond of my amphibians!! I guess though that during breeding season snakes are still hibernating so not a danger? Miss my frogs! and the dragonflies--gradually finding exuvia of the big guys about, enough to take into work to freak people out, and about to send one to a friend who likes such things. But only seeing a common darter about, and loads of damselflies. The exuvia look like the big emperor ones (the ones with wingspans that rival Phelps), but none about. happy ponding, chip

I would capture all that I could find and take them to a shelter or forest and wildlife authorities to take care of them. Leaving them be may seem like the easy thing to do, but it's not the right thing to do. Unless you want to bring them in and give them appropriate care as pet frogs. Which, if you did that, there's lots of care information on the Internet for them. They make okay captives. Pretty neat. Just gotta dechlorinate the water.