Seeing how an already grown frog would not stay, we figured that if a frog came to be in our pond, it would stay naturally... so we kidnapped a few tadpoles from the local park, along with some water and soil from the local lake and poured into the pond. I guess we could call it a good start.
When the frogs start crawling out though, they need a good safe place to hide. I had a lot of logs left over from trimming the backyard, so I went to work...
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| The pond, in case you forgot what it looks like. |
I have still not had time to fix plants and stuff around the pond, and it has only 5 cm deep water in it anyway while waiting for it to fill with rain water. So the whole thing looks pretty pathetic. I dug in a bit of flat shelf-like area on its south side, and hand cut the logs down to size and placed them there. Two of the logs got to act as retainer. I could put pots and what not behind those.
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| Two horizontal retainers, and a bunch of logs. Now the frogs can hide. |
After the weekend's rain, the pond filled up a little bit more, plus I poured about 10 liters from the old tank into it myself. So it looks more like a pond now than a wet hole.
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| The logs are all in place |
Things keep falling into it and add to the organic soup. But the water is very clear. I could see three dead mukade in there who probably came to drink or something. Lots of spiders walking on the surface and also Jesus bugs.
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| And we have more water in it too |
And the tadpoles seem to be healthy...knock on wood.
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| zoom in to see the tadpoles |
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