Are these frog spawn or goldfish spawn?

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These are the best pictures I got. These guys are in my bog, in 3 inches of water. I guess either my plants hid the eggs when I transferred them or the semi solid pump got them or these are frog which makes more sense.

Look carefully there is only one in each picture.

If these are fish, what do I do... Start feeding the bog?!?
 

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Hard to determine with certainty from the pics, but my guess would be fish fry. The narrow head profile with pronounced eyes blending into a wispy thin body and tail denotes this. Here's goldfish fry:
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...and trout fry:
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Fish! They'll dine on algae and tiny organisms for a while. You can also give them finely powdered flake foods.
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The frog eggs in my pond are always black and in long strings. Unless different types of frogs do things differently.
 
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Yes fish , opttical illusion i was looking at white spots for few mins as eggs lol , they should come to surface in a day or 2
 

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Yes. I see them after looking a little closer. I find it hard to believe that either the eggs or the fry migrated through the gravel in the 'bog' if it is an upflow system.
I had fish fry in my bog one year Years ago. Cute little things I tried to catch them and toss them back in the pond, didn't do to good.
 
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I'll wait a bit more before I move them to the pond. Sides there are a lot of them. I'll start being serious about moving them when the weather starts being cooler. I think I saw a couple moving "fins".
 

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