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Rebuilding my pond but have frogs?

richard49richard49 Posts: 22
in Wildlife gardening
My pond needs to be dug up, made bigger and the pond liner renewed.

Went out to start the work but found frogs in the pond.

Should I leave renewing the pond till a certain time of the year in case I'm stopping them from breading?

Any advice would be very welcome.

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  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    We did our pond in the spring when there were lots of tadpoles. We used buckets to decant as much water, pond weed and tadpoles plus some of the bottom silt as we could into a paddling pool. When we had finished, about a week later, we moved them back. Everything seemed quite happy. Our frogs are incredibly shy so they all disappeared for the duration but reappeared almost immediately.

    When reading up about it, Autumn seemed to be the recommended time as most things have finished their breeding season and it’s before hibernation. We had intended to do it then but the weather that year was awful. It also seemed to us, that you inevitably disturb something whatever the time of year, so we may as well get it done when we had the time and weather to do so.
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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    If you can leave it until Autumn that would be ideal as the frogs will have bred and the new arrivals will have left.  If you can't, doing as Butterfly66 has suggested should be OK as long as the paddling pool is in the shade.  Once the new pool is ready, pour the water from the paddling pool in as it will have bugs and bacteria in it to help establish the new pool.
  • CeresCeres Posts: 2,698
    Good advice re doing this in autumn. Right now frogs are in the throes of breeding and so is everything else so if you can leave the pond renovation until things quiten down a bit, I'm sure the amphibians will be a lot happier.
  • richard49richard49 Posts: 22
    Thank you everyone; you're feedback is very much appreciated.
    I'll leave the pond until the autumn.
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