What to do with cane toads near your frog pond
- Cane toads are a risk to mature frogs and their tadpoles
- Remove cane toad eggs from your frog pond, or they will poison the water in your frog pond and the ‘toadpoles’ will eat your ‘tadpoles’
- It’s easy to identify toad eggs, they are the only ones laid in long clear strands like spagetti. The eggs look like a row of little black dots. Destroy the cane toad eggs by taking them out of the water and leaving them to dry
This is what cane toad eggs look like. Make sure to take them out of your frog pond if you see them! They are really easy to pick up in your hands
- Toad tadpoles tend to be smaller than frog tadpoles and are usually found in dense swarms. Toadpoles are pure black, native frog tadpoles have light-coloured undersides.
Example of toadpoles.
- Whether or not you have a frog pond, it’s a good idea to collect adult cane toads at night and freeze them in a plastic bag. Beware the poison glands on their backs. Another humane method for killing cane toads (there is no reason to be cruel — they didn’t ask to come here) is to squirt them with Dettol or Toadex — but not salt.
- The bodies of the dead cane toads can be composted.
This is what cane toad eggs look like. Make sure to take them out of your frog pond if you see them! They are really easy to pick up in your hands
Example of toadpoles. 
Those toad eggs look gross!
ReplyDeletefreezing them is still mean ;c
ReplyDeleteThanks for your information, my pond has a resident pobblebonk that's laid eggs several times in the last few months. very recently 3 days ago I caught a toad coming out of the pond,next day found two dead fish and my net brought up masses of clear jelly from the pond grass, I removed all I could. I now have loads of little tadpoles swimming close too surface, their bellies seem slightly pale but overall black, not sure if they're frogs or toads, never seen this before. Any help much appreciated.
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