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New pond gardener with early success: |
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Jake Member Joined: 08 May 2006 No. of posts: 2  View other posts by Jake |
Posted: 08 May 2006 Hi Everyone! I recently bought a pond after digging up a hibernating toad in the garden of my new house. I put a pond in almost immediately with the prospect wildlife in the garden. I filled the pond with a selection of oxygenating plants, deep water plants and marginals. Within a week I had a pair of toads mating and a single newt. They have since spawned and I now have thousands of small tadpoles. I have discovered this evening that I now have a pair of newts, the second one I have spotted could be a male as it has a crest down its dorsal, but is not a greater crested. I am thrilled by amount of success I have generated in such a small amount of time with my pond. In order to achieve maximum, success is there anything I can do to ensure as many survive as possible, although I don't want to upset the balance of nature, will my pond have enough food for the amount of life it contains? Do you have any advice for me? Also I removed a laburnham from nearby the pond as they can be poisonous, is there any other plants which should not be planted? I planted a huge section of crocosmia next to the pond to provide shelter, are these safe? It seems that Central Northampton is a hotbed of Amphibian life! |
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Suzi Senior Member Joined: 06 Apr 2005 No. of posts: 860 View other posts by Suzi |
Posted: 08 May 2006 You've been very lucky with such a new pond. I have seen a blackbird munching up my tadpoles and I believe robins like them as well! If you have thousands it might not matter to you to lose a few. I am feeding my tadpoles on slugs and snails which they seem to love. Suz |
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clarkie Member Joined: 04 Oct 2004 No. of posts: 21 View other posts by clarkie |
Posted: 29 Mar 2007 Hi jake, i am in the process of building a small pond. Anychance of a pic of your new pond? |
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Jake Member Joined: 08 May 2006 No. of posts: 2 View other posts by Jake |
Posted: 29 Mar 2007 Yes, its year on now and there is much more activity. I'll take some pics at the weekend and post them. I seem to have everything now, mating balls of frogs, newts and Toads! |
- New pond gardener with early success |