"sweetheart" hotmail.com wrote in message
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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


No idea on the fishy things.

With regard to the stinking leaves - not nice.

I neglected our medium sized pond and it went more or less anaerobic
So we decided to clean it out.

After carefully removing most of the water, and the plants in their baskets,
we started removing the muck from the bottom.
We then set up two muck buckets with water to keep any frogs or newts we
found.
We thought we might have a few frogs, and perhaps about four newts as we had
seen a couple swimming around the previous year.
We stopped counting after about 50 frogs and a similarly large number of
newts (can't remember how many).
So ponds have hidden depths :-)
Also, stinky leaves don't seem to cause frogs and newts any problems, just
fish.
Your frogs and newts may just be hiding.
If the pond looks clearish and doesn't smell bad then it is probably O.K.

Cheers

Dave R

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No plan survives contact with the enemy.
[Not even bunny]

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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