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Delurk with chocolates and a question
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 20:25:21 +0100, Kay Easton
wrote: In article , Gwenhyffar Milgi writes The penultimate project is the garden pond. We recently discovered the natural waterinlet for it (from a stream) and overflow and have now been able to reestablish the waterflow into and out of the pond. I have drastically reduced the growth in the pond, and the water is clearing up by the day. It is inundated with tadpoles, which I enjoy watching greatly. You *lucky* thing! A natural pond :-) Well, no. It's definitely a man made pond. At least I'm presuming that pond lining doesn't grow on trees gggg. However, there is a natural inlet and overflow for the pond. The inlet is water diverted from a stream (this is the same stream that we take our drinking water from, we have a private water supply. We take our water from the top of the ridge, the farmer takes his from slightly lower for the cattle, and we take our pondwater from the lowest part of the stream). It enters the pond over a cascade of rocks. When the water rises above a certain level, the water starts to overflow one end of the pond which has deliberately been set a bit lower. This water drains off into a gully, which runs across the field and then empties into a drainage stream, which eventually ends up in the estuary. Since we got it up and running, the pondwater has cleared enough for us to see down to the bottom. It is an extremely fertile pond though, the plantlife is thriving to the extent that before we re-established the watercourse, we had to remove about 2/3 of the plantlife to get some watersurface back. The size of the pond did surprise us though, once we started work on it, removing grass, soil and other things that seemed to indicate dry land, we realised that the entire pond was rocklined and was twice as big as we thought it was. The tadpoles are numerous, it seems every frog/toad/newt in the neighbourhood deposits its spawn in it (yes, we have newts, and one of those legless thingies). In the early part of February, the entire pond was covered in spawn. Then the frost hit, and I thought we had lost it all, but there are still uncountable numbers of tadpoles. And lots of other goodies, bugs that run upside down, little white jumping thingies, things that look like a stick with fins and much, much more. We'd like something that is mainly vegetarian, as the plantlife is really, really well established and needs a herd of little somethings in there. I've been doing a websearch, and lots of places recommend goldfish or something called Tench as a bottomfeeder. There's a place in Conwy that looks on the surface of it as if it could supply what I need. "My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night but ah my foes and oh my friends -- it gives a lovely light" |
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