Is my frog eating my goldfish?

[mozone44]

I recently had to start a 12 yr old small goldfish pond over. A unsupervised two year old dumped an entire can of pond food into it and no one told me..the fish all suffocated. It was horrific. Ok, so I buy 12 feeder fish, some plants and my daughter sees a frog...turns out its a very small bullfrog. After three days a fish is floating. No marks so not birds. Skip ahead...fours days laters...we r down four more fish. I think the frog is def killing our fish. Should I relocate him? The frog is just a tad (haha) bigger then the small goldfish..could he really be strangling them by trying to mate? He's only been a frog for a couple of weeks. There are no marks on the fish and they are floating dead all of a sudden..no like they are sick and lingering then finally die. Weve lost fish to herons who are suddenly missing or have wounds and weve had really large frogs come and go from our pond without fish deaths so this is a mystery. We were hoping to get this pond going before winter! Help anyone?

[ladybirder]

Are you in America?

[Mosaic]

It's off the point, but I'm worried that an unsupervised two-year-old is allowed near your pond. That's really got fatal potential - not just for the fish.

[wildwood]

^ I think mozone meant that the fish that went suddenly missing before, were lost to herons.

[mozone44]

First, the unsupervised two year old was a visiting relative who thankfully is no longer visiting. And yes, scary that he was not watched. Secondly, the herons arent going missing..our goldfish have suddenly went missing due to the herons eating them or they have what looks like a saddle wound where the beak grabbed them but got away. I put up several chimes and thus far this year no herons. This situation with the dead fish just started a week ago but were down six fish. I dont want to kill the frog but it seems obvious its got to be relocated. And..I'm not confused. I'm ticked off my 12 yr old fish were killed and now my new fish are being killed. Thanks to all the positive answers :) I'm in the eastern US.

[mozone44]

Mr. Bullfrog is now in the witness protection program in another pond after killing ten fish.