Last night my hubby called me outside to see the tadpoles in the pond. Now, I hate, hate, HATE, frogs. My boy LOVES them and catches them all the time in his net then brings them over to me proudly to showcase, at which point I go off running and screaming. So I was a little freaked out when he pointed them out to me in our pond...fifteen feet from our home. But it didn't stop there. There were thousands of them in the pond. These two have been busy and clearly are still at it. Because obviously there just isn't enough tadpoles in my pond (heavy sarcasm). I really don't need anymore thank you. There is plenty enough for my boy to enjoy. Seriously, these two couldn't even have a little privacy. Oye, I'm having horrible visions of my property being overwhelmed with frogs like the plague in the bible. However, I have heard they feed on algae and bacteria and help rid of bugs which my pond is swarming with right now putting a damper on our enjoyment sitting around it. Besides, goldfish apparently love to eat tadpoles. We have about 50 koi in our pond. So I think I'll just let nature do it's thing and the critters do theirs and hopefully I'll have a nice clean pond to enjoy, my boy will have plenty of frogs to play with, my koi will have fully bellies and I get to save on fish food. But if not, out comes the chlorine
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Our pond had frozen over again after it had completely thawed in mid-March. Since then, it has thawed and frozen back and forth. However, last night the koi in the pond suddenly decided they had enough and started swimming about. A few had made an appearance during the initial thaw, but last night the pond was swarming with big ones and little ones. Perhaps they sense the return of spring? Let's hope so.
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