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Frog Pond (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by ookla_the_mok to c/greenspace

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So my wife decided that she wanted a pond for Mother's Day (like small garden pond - we live in the burbs) and so she got one.... Took longer than a day, but we at least started on Mother's Day. Anyway - her ultimate goal was to get a 'natural' pond set up and get frogs to spawn in the pond.... While we still need to do some work covering the liner at the top - it's in and we filled it with water like 3 weeks ago... We now have tadpoles!! And a pair of mallards are using it for like a love nest or something - they come and go throughout the day, splash around taking baths, etc. ...

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[–] tmcgh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's exciting! I wish I had the space to do something similar. Hope we can get some progress pics on those tadpoles!

[–] ASCIIansi@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

I once bought a metal wash tub, put it on my porch, added sand, rocks, plants, fish and water... and called it a pond. It is pretty easy to do.

Anything that will hold water for a couple weeks will have tadpoles in it pretty quick.