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. …
still learning lemmy - didn’t realize it was a picture at a time so here’s the tadpole evidence
That’s exciting! I wish I had the space to do something similar. Hope we can get some progress pics on those tadpoles!
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.
Will it be difficult to upkeep the pond? Or do you think it will be pretty self-sustaining?
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…
That’s so cool! Good luck on your pond, hopefully it “grows” really well
Thanks!
Great idea adding the pond water! Sounds like a really fun project.
Are those reeds for dragonflies?
