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Digging a tiny pond to attract wildlife
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26-01-2004, 10:03 PM
Dave
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Digging a tiny pond to attract wildlife
EROSPAM (Ka30P) wrote in message ...
Dave wrote:
Thanks. I wish it included info on how and where frogs hibernate.
This is critical to deciding how I will construct my pond.
Depends on the frog.
Some frogs, such as bullfrogs and leopard frogs, spend the winter at
the bottom of the pond. Other frogs, such as the tree and chorus frogs,
spend their winters in leaf litter and under logs.
Frogs that winter under water like a bit of mud, some leaf litter or
a tub of nice mud to hang out in. Most importantly they need a hole
kept open in the ice. This allows built up gasses from decomposing
pond matter to leave the pond. Since our garden ponds are usually
over stocked and over planted this is important. Mother Nature
usually doesn't have this to worry about.
That is what I was afraid of. So how much water depth and bottom mud
depth does that imply? I guess I need a deep center area where the
liner can be backfilled with mud. Thanks.
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