http://www.paherp.org/forum/ PAHERP Forum » Topic: Help please! Dead frogs in pond? en Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:29:50 +0000 http://www.paherp.org/forum/topic/help-please-dead-frogs-in-pond#post-441 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 04:22:39 +0000 paherp 441@http://www.paherp.org/forum/ <p>Answered through email. </p> <p>Hope the others are okay Victoria. Feel free to email me anytime. </p> http://www.paherp.org/forum/topic/help-please-dead-frogs-in-pond#post-440 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:29:32 +0000 VictoriaL 440@http://www.paherp.org/forum/ <p>I have a small window of opportunity here, and it doesn't look as thoughh these forums are active in the winter months, but I have not been able to find an answer anywhere else. Please, if you can help me, post a reply! I'll be checking back often in the next several hours.</p> <p>The thick ice on our 8x18-foot pond melted during our warm weather yesterday and I found, this morning, 2 "dead" frogs in the shallow end. One was floating just under the water level, upsikde down. His eyes are clouded over, but he otherwise looks like he is sleeping. The other, I can only see the back 1/2 of him as the front 1/2 is under a rock ledge. His legs are splayed a bit.</p> <p>ARE they dead of still hibernating? Should I move them, if still alive, to an area in deeper water (about 20" rather than the 6" they are in now)? If they are dead, I should probably remove them before they decompose. We have several goldfish in the pond, too, and I have been making a large air hole in the ice all winter (unfortunately at the opposite corner of where these frogs were discovered).</p> <p>Any help????? THANKS!!! </p>