On 26/02/2012 11:01, Jake wrote:
On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:18:05 -0000, "sweetheart"hotmail.com wrote:

I have a "problem" with my pond. I used to have a large colony of frogs.
Last year they didn't come. This year it seems they are not coming. I live
in Cornwall - so no bad weather this year and having looked around I see
other people have frogs now.

I did have newts last summer. Not too many.

So I decided to take a look at what might be in the pond. I found one frog
( he/she seems to have gone now) one newt last night and a net full of
something I cant identify. I looks like a fish . Its about half an inch
long - some slightly smaller , greyish brown translucent .

I have no fish in the pond and never have. I have trawled the internet for
something like it to no avail. Any suggestions?

PS - I don't want any false trails but if I didn't know better I would
suggest baby sticklebacks but I don't have any fish in the pond, nor could
they have got in ( nearest river 2 miles away).

Also - anyone suggest what might have caused the demise of my pond since I I
seem to have lost everything in there?

Its smallish but I keep the area with long grass and a rockery for habitat
and only strim once a year. I have lilies and oxygenating plant and it looks
clearish , although it was full of stinking tree leaves until I set to last
year.

Any suggestions to a healthy pond ( and about my unidentified) would be
welcome

Thanks.

It may be a little early to panic. Different people in this group are
reporting different levels of frog activity - some of us are now
over-run with spawn, others have yet to see spawn at all and some
haven't even seen frogs.

I don't have a pond, but there are still a few frogs and toads in my
garden and sometimes the odd grass snake. The nearest pond is a fair way
away and the nearest beck about 400m. They seem to live under shady
hedges and near the compost heaps where it is usually pretty damp.

Every so many years I have to clear out the pond a bit and I always
have fewer frogs visiting the following year but things recover the
year after that.

As to what you've found in the pond, I have no idea. If you're able to
take a pic and upload that to a photo sharing site and then link to it
from a message here we can have a look.

A picture is very helpful. Our previous house had a pond and sometimes
spontaneously gained new full grown goldfish when expat neighbours
returned home. This was somewhat surprising the first time it happened.

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Regards,
Martin Brown