Started a tiny wildlife pond last May (UK). It’s in a 27 litre storage box. I added some oxygenators and other plants: hornwort, starwort, bladderwort, arrowhead and watercress. The watercress and arrowhead haven’t survived but the hornwort and starwort are thriving. Not sure about the bladderwort tho! Had lots of mosquito larvae last year which I witnessed hatching and flying away as of yesterday. Last week I added a solar airstone pump, hopefully to agitate the water and stop the mosquitoes laying eggs. Yesterday I was clearing the string algae and planning on digging a larger hole to d ..read more

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My pond was completed just a couple of months ago, and it's now one of my most favorite things about my home. My landscape architect and I worked together to design the pond to overflow into a bog garden of native pitcher plants and sundews. I have two 65-gallon rain barrels for filling the pond. Aside from the water lily cultivar (Wanvisa), all the plants are native to the Southeastern US--American frogbit, seashore mallow, American canna, Louisiana irises, lizard tails, and mountain mint. After weeks of observing American toads singing each night, we have heaps of tadpoles. There are pr ..read more

Last year I posted my 30gallon all native plants tiny pond. This year I upgraded to a 125 gallon. Still all natives. No filter or aeration. All of the fully aquatic plants- hornwort, bacopa Carolina and ludwigia were pulled from my tiny pond after overwintering! I live in North Carolina, USA and the top of the tiny pond did freeze for a few days but there was so so much that survived! I’ve added several other species plants including pickerelweed, a hardy dwarf lotus, utricularia inflata (carnivorous bladderwort), pitcher plant and even a bald cypress sapling. I can’t wait to watch the 30 ..read more

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Let's chat! How are your ponds and wet habitats doing? Any plans for new ponds or improvements? What wildlife has been visiting your pond this week? submitted by /u/AutoModerator [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I'm building a pond measuring 3.5m long x 2.5m wide. I was thinking I'd have approx. 1/3 of the pond (the first 1m) as a gradual pebbled slope down to 30cm with the rest in shelves, but all of the advice I've seen online only shows ponds dug out into shelves. What do you think? Is a sloping area OK or should I use shelves and make them shallower in that section? submitted by /u/ThrowawayTrainTAC [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

I have a MacCourt 9 Gallon container I was using for a boggy style planting. I was looking to reuse this as a possible small pond area for the birds and maybe some frogs. Is something this small possible?? The area I have is fairly small and I am not 100% sure what I will eventually set up. But I have the empty container and wanted to try to use it this year while I figure things outs. My area is in full sun right now. Again I need to sort out planting. But the birds are loving the bird path and the ground tray I have of water. Was hoping to improve things. Small container builds like this vi ..read more

Black/red individual eggs UK POND 5 eggs, shallow water, no spawn, laid on a rock. Black but in the light they’re more red ring ed. There’s no signs of adult leeches in the pond. What are they from ? submitted by /u/No_Complex_2918 [visit reddit] [comments ..read more

Found lots of these in our 2 year old large wildlife pond. UK. Any idea what they are? submitted by /u/mousepallace [visit reddit] [comments ..read more