Is it best to leave the blanket weed alone at this time? My little pond went in last summer,so I didn't get anything last year,except a few water boatmen.
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I haven't moved anything in the pond yet Valley Gardener. I am hoping (like last year) that we will have some newts and dragonfly hibernating in the bottom of the pond under the blanket weed and the water is still too cool for them to be surfacing. The blanket weed does as it says and helps to keep the water warmer under it.
I understood, like a previous poster, that they were vegetarians until they developed back legs then they turned omnivore but meat (flies, caterpillars etc.) was essential for their development. I used to boil lettuce leaves, shred them finely, freeze in an ice cube tray then feed one cube per day. We are not great lettuce lovers so I graduated to spinach which was happily consumed and as they matured I chucked in the occasional slug or snail. My thinking was that the earlier they developed a taste for slugs and snails the better as I am hoping the adult frogs will help rid me of the pests. I have no evidence that they do eat them but I live in hope. 😀
I’ve no evidence of that either, still lots of slugs here. I buy flaked fish food for my tadpoles although I have lots of oxygenating weed in the ponds. Just seen another lot of spawn covering the small pond.
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I have no evidence that they do eat them but I live in hope. 😀
I buy flaked fish food for my tadpoles although I have lots of oxygenating weed in the ponds. Just seen another lot of spawn covering the small pond.
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I have added the info to the thread as requested
The frogs are Massive !!