Plants Around Swimming Pools
Are they tadpoles swimming in my pool?
My pool needs to be chlorinated since a few weeks. Today I see many little what looks like tadpoles. First view I saw some kind of spermy looking creature. Then I realised it must be a tadpoles.. Also saw in my potted seedling pots… two balls looks like silica or actually some kind of egg sack very rounded how ever. Are these all reptiles planting themselves around my backyard?
What to do?!
I had a cat when I first moved here it bit me when it was trying to catch a lizard I kept him outside for a day or so and hes run away… I see a lot of lizards around here. and sometimes they get inside my home, I try to urge them to stay outside by yelling at them and guiding them out with items.. they seem to hear me. I am in Florida. Is this real common. Rarely to never did I see a reptile in Minnesota.
They sound like they’re tadpoles, but it wouldn’t hurt to post a picture as well, because very young tadpoles and mosquito larvae can sometimes be interchanged. If your water is not stagnant, then it’s highly unlikely that you have mosquitoes, but do examine that because that’s one of the prime ways in which West Nile Virus is spread around. You may also want to collect the tadpoles and put them into a filtered tank (standard small fish tank) because outdoor conditions can change quite a lot and shock the animals into death. Also, if your pool has a filter or something which sucks water, they might get sucked in. In terms of a tank, you really only need something which can hold water and which can have a filter of some sorts. A weak filter is preferable to a strong one because a strong one can suck in small animals and they don’t create much waste, so you don’t need much filtration. You can use fish gravel as a substrate. When your animals start getting larger, you’ll want to slope the gravel so it goes above water level so that the tadpoles can get onto land when they turn into frogs.
As for the silica things…if you can see through them (in which case you should see a dark developing embryo), then they are amphibian eggs. If you cannot and they have the general same color of chicken eggs, then they are reptile eggs. If they are more oddly colored, as with spots or another color than beige, they may be bird eggs. Amphibian eggs need to be kept wet, not necessarily immersed in water, but must be kept humid. Reptile eggs need to be kept very warm, usually through some sort of incubator, although leaving them in a sunny spot could potentially work if you can keep temperatures so much more stable. If they are bird eggs, they’ve likely been abandoned and you should leave them there.
It is fairly common to have many amphibians such as frogs as well as many reptiles such as lizards in Florida. There’s a lot of exotic species accidentally released from people’s houses as well.
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