I found 3 newts in the old carpet that I had stored on my allotment. My allotment is surrounded on all sides by bushes and trees and the soil gets very hard over winter. I was concerned that the newts might not survive so I brought them home to my pond. I have 3 gold fish and 2 koi in the pond. The pond is also home to a large toad. I have had newts in there before but have not seen one for a number of years. Did I do the right thing in moving the 3 from the allotment? I am going to put some sacking down by the pond this evening - to give them extra cover and to give them a means of getting in and out of the water. (there is old decking around the pond so plenty of places to shelter). Is there anything else that I should do?
I have had to rescue 6 newts(one adult and 5 about 3-4cm long) from my swimming pool today and a half grown frog, which is very keen at climbing up the bucket? I have a walled pond and live quite close to a conservation pond can they survive without access to dry land, as if I put them in my pond they will not have. I would like to introduce them but do they co-habitate with pondfish? Or would it be kinder to take them to the conservation area?
I was advised by a wildlife site that fish eat newt eggs. So we have a pond and do not have any fish in it. We have some newts (but they stay hidden at the bottom) and some toadpoles that ,now they have turned into baby toads also stay out of sight. However we have aslo got three largish frogs who have decided to make their home in our pond! So I hope they do not eat the tiny toads/newts. I has heard they do, but the toadspawn they did not chase when it was on the surface of our pond, so I live in hope......!
hi we have got a pond with newts and fish, and also regularly frogspawn and toadspawn and it all seems to get along well enough - didn't get many actual froglets this year though we had them last year. We also have lots of dragonfly nymphs so I wondered if they ate everything?? Would like a view on water snails - I seem to have hundreds of them, breeding like fury. Is there an optimum number and how do I disperse them?
Hello Richard. I've always topped up my pond with rainwater from the waterbutt. But we still get blanket weed. We have 2 newts, still very small and very shy. We had lots of tad and toadpoles, but I think the birds eat a lot of them. They certainly eat the pondskaters,as we saw a blackbird with several in his beak. The water is getting rather murky and on sunny days you can almost see the blanket weed grow !! We have decided to try (am I allowed to mention a product?) Aquaplancton. Not cheap, but all the reviews are very positive. Enjoy all the recolonisation in your pond. It's fascinating, isn't it? By the way, we don't have any fish, only natural wildlife.
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we have got a pond with newts and fish, and also regularly frogspawn and toadspawn and it all seems to get along well enough - didn't get many actual froglets this year though we had them last year. We also have lots of dragonfly nymphs so I wondered if they ate everything?? Would like a view on water snails - I seem to have hundreds of them, breeding like fury. Is there an optimum number and how do I disperse them?