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Goldfish introduced to a pond with frogs ?

Legacy_user · 2010-06-27 11:24:13

The house we moved into in Feb of this year, has two ponds in the garden, each about 4ft/5ft approx and each contain frogs, in fact when we moved here, the ponds were alive with activity but of late, only a handful of frogs are seen daily. We doubt either have been cleared for years and there is about 6" sludge in each and…

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hethmar Posts: 10,678 Forumite

28 June 2010 at 10:18AM

If the spawn just disappears into a yucky mess in the pond, it usually means that the water is polluted/doesnt have enough oxygen. We had this happen two years running in our pond after 18 years of no probs, so OH put in a new water filter and a ton of new oxygenating plants and this year the spawn was fine and the tadpoles very lively.

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