Frog Pond - Xmas Idea For My Mom <3
#1
Posted 02 December 2012 - 09:00 PM
I was thinking of setting up a frog pond for my mom as a xmas gift.
Before I start looking at size, equipment, etc I was wondering how hard it is to attract frogs to a pond.
We get a couple every now and then that go for a swim in our pool and then I have to run around netting them out and then giving them a hose down. No idea what kind though.
Is it possible to buy tadpoles somewhere? Surely we don't have to do down the licensing path...
Cheers,
Andrew
(p.s. Kleinz, can I borrow some of your frogs )
#2
Posted 02 December 2012 - 09:18 PM
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Posted 02 December 2012 - 09:21 PM
#4
Posted 02 December 2012 - 09:22 PM
I live in Two Rocks rural.
No wet lands no nothing.
In the bush.
Closest is yanchep marshes.
After installing my Koi pond it only took one week to get banjo frogs.
Enough to make a non-nature lover tear their hair out from all the bonk sounding nose.
Bonk, bonk, bonk have to hear it to believe it.
Four weeks further on the motor bikes came and existed with the banjos for about three weeks.
After that the banjos disappeared and never to be heard again.
The motor bikes now remain as thick as ever eight years later.
In the suburbs the garden reticulation allows the frogs a very easy existence and are able to spread.
#5
Posted 02 December 2012 - 09:26 PM
#6
Posted 02 December 2012 - 09:42 PM
If you build a pond you wouldn't have a choice.
You build it and they will come. Lol
#7
Posted 02 December 2012 - 09:49 PM
There is a healthy population of crows around so they might help keep numbers under control. I can always throw a koi in as well
I'm assuming a filter or heater won't be necessary? It wouldn't actually be possible as the pond would be a good 8m away from a power point.
P.s. although if there is koi in it, then that would be a different story
#8
Posted 02 December 2012 - 09:58 PM
There are solar powered pumps for day running.
No filter will allow a palm full of gold fish. Not koi.
Don't forget frogs are nocturnal and crows aren't.
There's nothing the neighbors can do anyway, it's all above board.
If the frogs disappeared outside my bedroom window I don't think I'd get to sleep.
It would be to quite.
It takes me a while to get use to winters first cold spell when they stop croaking, it's to quite lol.
#9
Posted 02 December 2012 - 11:48 PM
year before i sold 1000's of white clouds... once the motor bikes arrived.... nothing....
might have to retrain the dogs now to eat them!!!
#10
Posted 03 December 2012 - 12:11 AM
get a cat jono
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Posted 04 December 2012 - 12:49 AM
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Posted 08 December 2012 - 06:59 PM
#13
Posted 17 December 2012 - 10:06 PM
http://frogwatch.mus...am/default.aspx
Happy frogging
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Posted 17 December 2012 - 10:13 PM
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Posted 17 December 2012 - 10:14 PM
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Posted 18 December 2012 - 09:44 AM
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