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13-06-2009, 06:06 PM
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| | | Whats living in my pond
OK - so I have a question thats probably a bit difficult to answer!!
My son and his partner have a pond which has something living in it and it doesnt show itself long enough to photograph....
The impression is of something around 12cm (5inches) long. It seems to have a white tail and brown/orange body. Every so often, theres a flash of something. Impression is that it is a fish but as far as I know - there are no fish there!!! Besides, if they are fish, surely we would see them swimming around?? It has to be said that the pond is fairy murky!! But no duckweed or blanket weed which would obscure the view...
Does anyone have any suggestions? The pond is a wildlife pond rather than a fish pond....it did have fish ages ago but apparently (according to the previous owner) they all died! So is it a surviving fish or could it be anything else? |
13-06-2009, 06:15 PM
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| | | Re: Whats living in my pond
Could be a surviving fish.....
or a newt! 
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13-06-2009, 06:17 PM
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| | | Re: Whats living in my pond
Ooooh forgot to say... often when startled a newt will flip over exposing it's white/orange/brown speckled belly
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15-06-2009, 10:27 AM
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| | | Re: Whats living in my pond
Could be that you are seeing anewt coming up for air? Mine often are just seen as they hit the surface and are gone in a second.
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16-06-2009, 05:22 PM
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| | | Re: Whats living in my pond
Thanks for the replies! And the welcome!
Yep I reckon its a newt also - funnily enough, not long after I posted, my son spotted a newt by the side of the pond, so I reckon thats the answer!
Ive just come from my own pond - its a little wildlife pond, just about a year old now. I fished some frogspawn out of it back in the spring and have had the tadpoles developing in a tank. Ive now transferred the tiny frogs and the last remaining tadpoles into a biggish container by the side of it. Lots of rocks in there for the tiny frogs to climb onto and some stone ramps so they can hop onto there and out into the pond....and as I was doing that, there was a big frog croaking very close....wonder if he was sensing competition?? |
16-06-2009, 06:49 PM
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Just asking, but why did you fish the frogspawn out from your pond?
Sure hope you have got a newt.. they're cool! 
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16-06-2009, 10:54 PM
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| | | Re: Whats living in my pond
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Originally Posted by Cazzie  Just asking, but why did you fish the frogspawn out from your pond?
Sure hope you have got a newt.. they're cool! | Not all of the frogspawn!! Just a bit - enough to be able to watch the tadpoles developing! |
17-06-2009, 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by dubqueen Not all of the frogspawn!! Just a bit - enough to be able to watch the tadpoles developing! | Ah ok! - great thing to watch before yr eyes eh
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