Ok, I live in FL and have an inground swimming pool. Today when I got up I noticed 2 pairs of matting toads in my pool who by the way laid eggs every where! They are not in the line like I read about, but maybe because there isn't anything in my pool for them to attch to? The eggs are black and look like what I saw on line. The whole top of my pool was covered in them! I scooped what I could out and put them in a big critter tank and put some in my 90 gallon pond out back. Not sure if they will live being there were laid in cholrine water? I put some fish tank conditioner in the water to help remove it but who knows?? We've been getting rain like crazy and even have a little ditch/creek behind our back yard. Wonder why they would pick the pool over the natural ditch and our little poind?

Whether or not the eggs survive depends on how chlorinated the pool water was and how long they were in there. By putting them in some fresh water, they may still have a chance. It could go either way. Toad eggs look like strings of black pearls. With nothing to attach to in a pool, they might configure themselves in any sort of configuration but should still be strung together as opposed to frog eggs which are laid in round clumps.

Why the toads chose the pool is not really something we can answer. Perhaps they wanted a larger body of water than your 90 gallon pond (hinting to you to build a larger one) and didn't care about the chemicals or lack of food for their young in there. Maybe other toads or animals scared them away from other potential egg-laying locations so they ended up there. Toads aren't geniuses.

The tadpoles are doing great! We have prob about 20 of them in all sizes swimming around! They seem to enjoy the fish food and bread that we are feeding them! I kept them in the pool water but added some fish tank water conditioner to it to help rid the chorine. They are growing so fast I can't beleive it.

I am glad they are still alive. Most pool water has more than just chlorine added as far as chemicals so I would start doing 30% water changes or so every few days with fresh tap water and dechlorinator. This will slowly dilute out the pool chemicals.

I'm kinda affraid to do anything to the water. We had some tads from a golf course that my son found and they were doing great until we put them in new spring water in his frog habitat. They all died. Then we had one left in a big bowl outside in pod scum water and it was drying up so I added some tap water to it figure it had enough pod scum alreaedy and the darn thing died the next day. ?? Dont want to chance it at this point.

Something may have been wrong with the water used to top off the tank and pond. It could have had chlorine, low oxygen levels, an off pH, etc. It's important to get to know your tap water as far as the pH, oxygen, hardness, alkalinity, chlorine, ammonia, nitrate, phosphate, and iron levels go and perhaps other chemical parameters. Any sharp change in water chemistry or temperature can lead to death even if the new water is better than the old.