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I just noticed there is a 'Rez' who posts (or has posted) here, so it may
get confusing. However I am only here for some advice if you could help.
I am sub'd to a pond group and am in the process of setting up a garden
pond. After careful consideration as to exactly what kind of pond (wildlife,
ornamental etc) I want I have decided to stock with native fish and
hopefully attract newts, frogs etc.
Someone on the group suggestede asking here for advice where I would get
sticklebacks & such from to stock this pond. Where I live there are little
or no natural ponds left from when I was a Kid, so simply dipping for them
is not an option.
I am in a very rural part of suffolk.
Any advice greatly appreciated.

Sticklebacks I expect I could find. Frogs and newts will find their own
way to a pond, however few of them you think you have in the
neighbourhood.

Toads tend to return to the pond of their hatching, so you will have to
find such a place and snarf some toadspawn (In strings, rather than
great splurges) - but - I'd suggest you get the pond established first,
and then approach the Suffolk Wildlife Trust, because I have more than a
sort-of feeling that it is almost a capital offence to take toadspawn.

Remember too, that if you have sticklebacks in the same pond as newts,
frogs and toads have laid spawn in, the tadpoles will make a fine meal
for them.

You might be better with gudgeon.

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