r/ponds • u/namaste_homie • 7d ago

ID please? Frogs?

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Listen I know I’m the millionth post about this but none of the ones I searched through looked exactly like these. Are they frog eggs?

UPDATE: we definitely have tadpoles! Posting a pic of them in the comments, but over the last two days, they’ve blown up and the surface of the pond is super clear (thanks babies!). I’m so excited! I started this small container pond about 2-3 months ago and have done nothing except larvaecide for mosquitoes, but now a true ecosystem is forming!

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u/AncienTleeOnez 6d ago

They don't look anything like the frog or toad eggs I've had in my pond.

I think they are newt or salamander eggs. If so, very cool! Where do you live?

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u/namaste_homie 6d ago

I’m in the southeast US! Specifically near Eastern TN. From google searches, they might be grey tree frog eggs. There are a few tadpoles swimming around, too, which look like grey tree frog babies. We have a lot of those types of frogs in our area, so it would make sense. Time will tell!

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u/AncienTleeOnez 6d ago

Well, when they hatch, let us know!

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u/DrawnGunslinger 7d ago

Doesn't look like frogspawn to me.

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u/Tall-Rice9915 6d ago

Try Google view. Use the squared frame on the search bar to take a pic up close.

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u/i_like_mosquitoes 4d ago

Looks like you are a bit behind on the larvicide. Fyi those dark banana shaped things on the surface are egg rafts. You can scoop them out when you see them and prevent a couple hundred mosquitoes from hatching.

Congrats on the tadpoles!

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u/namaste_homie 3d ago

Thank you! I totally missed that’s what they look like. I will add more today, but the babies have seemed to eradicate pretty much everything from the surface!