So my wife decided that she wanted a pond for Mother’s Day (like small garden pond - we live in the burbs) and so she got one… Took longer than a day, but we at least started on Mother’s Day. Anyway - her ultimate goal was to get a ‘natural’ pond set up and get frogs to spawn in the pond… While we still need to do some work covering the liner at the top - it’s in and we filled it with water like 3 weeks ago… We now have tadpoles!! And a pair of mallards are using it for like a love nest or something - they come and go throughout the day, splash around taking baths, etc. …

  • tmcgh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    That’s exciting! I wish I had the space to do something similar. Hope we can get some progress pics on those tadpoles!

    • ASCIIansi@infosec.pubEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I once bought a metal wash tub, put it on my porch, added sand, rocks, plants, fish and water… and called it a pond. It is pretty easy to do.

      Anything that will hold water for a couple weeks will have tadpoles in it pretty quick.

  • Frexican21@lemmy.oneEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Will it be difficult to upkeep the pond? Or do you think it will be pretty self-sustaining?

    • ookla_the_mok@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      We’ll have to see - since we’re not trying to make it like ‘perfect’ (i.e. we’re going for the nature pond thing) I think it won’t be too bad. We took a bucket of water from a local pond to jump-start things and so we’ve got a few (native thankfully) snails eating algae, a ton of boatmen, etc. so there’s a mini-ecosystem starting. Hopefully it will not require too much in the way of upkeep, but if it does at least it’s small…