Hi all,
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.
TIA



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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.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

In article , Jaques
d'Alltrades writes

You might be better with gudgeon.

Green tench, too.
And you can buy them.

Mind, neither green tench nor gudgeon are what you might call highly
visible fish. They grub along on the bottom. We see our tench in the
form of an almighty splash if we approach the pond quietly, and in
summer they can be seen lying quietly under the water lily pads. The
gudgeon I see only by torchlight at night, provided the pond is fairly
clear of weed. And newts like a pond which is thick with weed.

I'm still glad we have the fish. Two of each, big placid things about 8
inches long.

Newts and frogs are far more entertainment value.
Damsel flies too are nice. And remember there are several species of
snails - I have a big whelk shaped one, the flat ramshorn type, and the
patterned nerite type.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

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The message
from "Rez" contains these words:

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.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

Thanks for the advice. I will be getting the pond established first, just
doing some groundwork at the minute.
I will look into the Suffolk Wildlife Trust idea, I didn't think of them.
Thanks again.


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