Are these toad eggs from Cane toads?

[miamicuse]

I saw these strings of eggs wrapping around my pond piping. For scale these are 1-1/2" PVC pipes.

and on the same day I have one of my gold fish died, it's about 2.5" long. The other gold fish are still active, so I don't know if that fish died of eating these eggs, and from my understanding these strings of eggs are from toads, and with the eggs being black in color a high probability these are from cane toads whose eggs and tadpoles are poisonous to fish or any animals that eat them?

So I scoped out as much of it as I can...still have some in unreachable areas as well as below the bridge...

I don't know if my other gold fish have eaten this. Is it possible to confirm is these are cane toad eggs?

 

[Mmathis]

I don’t think you can confirm what they are until they reach a certain stage of larval development. I used to have a chart where you could compare and contrast things like mouth parts, gills, location of eyes……and there are a bunch of amphibious morphological differences to look for. I captured some taddies from a horse pasture that got flooded by heavy rains. I grew them out in a tank so it was super easy to get good, closeup observations. They turned out to be Spotted Southern Leoprd frogs. I returned the survivors to the original horse pasture.

I can’t find that specific site, there are numerous sites…..just search something like “compare and identify tadpoles,” keeping in mind your part of the country in your search.

 

[miamicuse]

I cleaned out as much as I could...but two days later I got hundreds of tadpoles, may be more than hundreds.

If these are cane toad tadpoles and poisonous how would one get rid of these? Do I need some sort of leaf vaccuum to siphon the tadpoles out of the pond?

 

[Mmathis]

Do you have cane toads where you are? Where do you live?

Most pond fish tend to stay away from tadpoles in general, but if they are cane toads, the mature adults are a problem. Depends on what you want to do. Suck them up with a vacuum, or scoop them out with a net.

 

[miamicuse]

Yes we have cane toads here. I am in south Florida, Fort Lauderdale specifically. Not sure how to scoop them up, it's an irregular shape, irregular depth pond with thousands of tadpoles.

If I use a leaf vacuum I need one that can get into tight crevices in the pond, anyone has any recommendation?