You also need to remember that frogs are effected by a viral disease called red leg disease, so always release your tadpoles or froglets into the same pond they were taken from to prevent spread of the disease. You'll be lucky if your spawn develops through to froglet stage, but just in case make sure you have rocks sticking out of their water as the froglets drown pretty soon after metamorphosis if they are not able to climb on to dry land. As for feeding, a couple of rabbit pellets every few days is enough for a hundred tadpoles, but even that's not going to stop the little beasts going cannibal - so brace yourself for your happy cr che dwindling as the tadpoles get older. Making frog spawn Spring is a time of year when our usually secretive wildlife gets preoccupied with one thing. Dipping its toes in the gene pool.
Personal safety is forgotten as animals go all out to find a mate.
And one place your guaranteed to get a glance of this in wild abandon is down at your local pond. Frogs are never going to get any awards for romance, but when it comes to mating there's none so enthusiastic. As the weather warms frogs converge on their home pools, which they find by smell learnt when they were still tadpoles. As the males get closer they get more and more preoccupied with finding an attractive female, and for frogs big is beautiful. Larger females can have more eggs, so it makes sense that the males get really excited by a larger lady - and when they find them there's no messing around with subtle courtship.