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Old 03-04-2011, 07:32 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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I had some frogspawn in my pond the other week which was just about to
hatch but then we had a very cold spell and a thin layer of ice had
formed on the pond over night which had killed off the little tadpoles
as they had all stopped wriggling.

I scooped up about six dead tadpoles from the pond in a coffee jar and
just left them in the garage, a week later I was about to empty the
jar and found to my amazement that all six dead tadpoles had come to
life and where swimming in the jar, I had left the others in the pond
but I can't see if any of them had survived because the goldfish may
have eaten them.


Stephen.


A winter or so back, I found one of the goldfish from my pond lying in
the middle of the lawn, looking very dead - my best guess is that the
dam raiding heron had caught and dropped it. There had been a heavy
frost and the fish was covered in ice. Just to follow an inkling I put
the fish back in the pond, and after some time it swam off to join it's
friends.

It never tried to escape again!!

JIP


You just would not believe it, isn't nature very strange indeed
the way it appears to bring the dead back to life?

Stephen.


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