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I have a pond!
eugene:
best to clean it out in the spring as if you clean it now there wont be anything for whatevers in it to live on
over winter and if you want any small fish i can you some :D
jiffyman:
Ah, but in the spring you will have tadpoles, newts and young etc etc.
If you can keep containers of the old water handy, it will contain alot of the nutrients etc required to keep your pond water more 'natural'
I would be tempted to do it about now but keep alot of the weed (rinsed off etc) and any snails and 'little critters' etc, and once you have put the original water back in, top up with water, and place the weeds, critters etc back in.
Or get a pond vacuum. Heard about them but dont know how they work etc... google may help....
OR, if it isnt too deep, leave everything in there, scoop out all the sludgy crud from the bottom, it will be murky for a few days, but will soon settle down..... just another option.
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
Interesting thoughts. I have a couple of days off coming up, so I'll have a crack at it then. Cheers for the offers of the fish, but there seem to be quite a few in there already! They must have bred like..........fish, I suppose.
As for the other lifeforms in there, so far I've spotted frogs and Great Crested Newts, and some amazingly huge dragonflies on the few warm days we had.
I haven't seen anything like it since we left the Norfolk Broads. All I need now are some hedgehogs in the garden and I'll be happy.
All this in an urban area! Amazing! saying that, I saw a buzzard take a pigeon down onto the road the other day. He managed to get a couple of mouthfulls before the traffic got heavy.
Saying all that, I'd still give my right arm to be back out in the cuds again. I miss my freedom and the silence of a country night. :(
jiffyman:
Great Crested Newts???
Look after them, they are rare as........
lee celtic:
If you have newts then call the newt brigade in they will clean it out for you just to count them :lol:
or try this http://www.froglife.org/GCNCH/GCNCH.htm
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