Can I clean my pond myself?

AnotherJoe

However, your answer implied that only one frog would survive from the "incalculable number of eggs" in the pond, from an unknown number of frogs.

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It didn't imply that. it said *on average* and I chose one as the maximum because that is from this particular spawning. They will mate over several years not just once so it can't be more than one frog per spawning (assuming at least two spawnings), or numbers will increase.

Money_saving_maniac

Another vote for the pondlife forum from me

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Andrew_Ryan_89

In regards to the frogs, they have all go missing now!I was last month or so, as it got warmer, the frog appeared. Saw them everyday an the were mostly on the surface, about 7 of them. Not too sure if it had something to do with the recent storm of some breeding cycle but now they are no where to be seen.

pimento

I have a small pond that doesn't have a pump. It has plants and a few fish (goldfish) and some frogs. I have a solar powered earator just to move the water around. Works great.

The heron is my only real problem. It cleared me out of fish one year and I netted the pond but it's a nuisance having a net.

dominoman

pimento wrote: »

The heron is my only real problem. It cleared me out of fish one year and I netted the pond but it's a nuisance having a net.

I had the same problem with herons. A couple of years ago I stretched a thin wire all around the edge of the pond, about 6" off the ground. Since then no problems at all and it it barely noticeable.

Apparently herons like to stand on the edge of the pond and peer in before fishing, and the thin wire dissuades them from doing that.

Davesnave

Andrew_Ryan_89 wrote: »

In regards to the frogs, they have all go missing now!I was last month or so, as it got warmer, the frog appeared. Saw them everyday an the were mostly on the surface, about 7 of them. Not too sure if it had something to do with the recent storm of some breeding cycle but now they are no where to be seen.

It's normal. The frogs don't hang around long. They stay long enough to spawn and then clear off.

If you have toads using the pond, they'd arrive next, spawning after the frogs. Then, they'd go too.