Crowded Pond + Frogspawn?

[TheTibetanHat]

My first post, so hi everybody.

Need some advice. I've recently moved into a new house and have discovered frogspawn in the small sheltered pond. In the past few weeks, before the spawn appeared, I'd cleared it of dead leaves but beyond that not done a lot. Thing is, the pond seems awfully crowded with vegetation, so I'm wondering if it might be an idea to pull at least some of it out if I want to give the tadpoles a better chance of developing.

PICTURE HERE

Or, will I do best to just leave it be and cross my fingers?

I'm more of a birder you see, never had my own garden and certainly not a pond so I'm feeling my way a long at the moment.

Thanks.

[Hedge Witch]

I'd leave the vegetation in, it will provide somewhere to shelter and feed

[Wild-Woman]

Tadpoles can survive in very small spaces. The pond looks fine to me.

[natureguy]

Yes the pond looks fine from a tadpole point of view but it depends on your personal preference, it wouldn't harm them just to take some of it out if you think the pond would look better and you can see a bit more if you wanted to watch the goings on in there.

Can I just direct you to this thread for future reference, it's generally better if you can post your pictures into the WAB image library where you can then add them to forum posts. Then we don't get dead links on the site if photobucket crashes or your picture is deleted.

http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/fo...otos-info.html

Welcome to WAB by the way.

[tameblackbirds]

Agree with the above leave it as it is. Very envious no sign of any spawn in my pond yet

[Paul mabbott]

Our pond was full of frogs on the last day of February and heaps of spawn now. The earliest since I created the pond (1999).

I've already taken some out because the pond is very shallow and we had frost last night, more tonight might kill the top layer of spawn. I have other reasons for removing some to safe havens but have discussed those at length in other threads - we seem to repeat these every year ....