jerrydog

Frogspawn Suddenly tons of it, up to yesterday none.

Originally posted by jerrydog: Live in Lancashire and as yet no frog spawn. But what I have found is a lot of frogs in pond with strange disease. Skin spit mainly around limb joints. An odd one or two with limbs missing. Theses don't live long, usually dead after a day or two. Is anyone else coming across this phenomenon Regards -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- quote: I remember reading last year that there was a disease attacking our native frogs with exactly those symptoms. It sounded very serious, but we have not seen any evidence of this in our frogs yet. Try a search on the web for the stories, it hit national news. Just found out I have Red Leg Thanks

Live in Lancashire and as yet no frog spawn. But what I have found is a lot of frogs in pond with strange disease. Skin spit mainly around limb joints. An odd one or two with limbs missing. Theses don't live long, usually dead after a day or two. Is anyone else coming across this phenomenon Regards

forgot to mention that our deterant is a four year old GSD. (Giant scared dog)

Thankful to my local seagull population. As soon as herons land anywhere near, the local head of seagulls start dive bombing and making one hell of a commotion. Loud enough to alert us and let our heron detterent out into the back garden, he then goes into sentry duty watching the skies. As soon as he spots it rushs straight back into the house and watchs from the back door.

Rather than do water changes on a regular basis I rely heavily on water quality tests. If the nitrite and ammonia levels start to rise then I will do a partial water change. If the results of the tests warrant it I will do a partial water change every other day till the results show normal. This applies throughout the year. In my opinion if you do not carry out regular water quality checks one of the first indications you will get of anything going wrong is fish dying. If filtering your water don’t forget the time it took to get the balance of good and bad bacteria in your filter right when you first set up the system, so is there not a chance of weakening that balance if you carry out unnecessary water changes. At the end of the day it is really up to the individual, if whatever you do works for you, albeit change water or not, then surely you should carry on as before. Regards..

Trying to keep heron off koi, orfe, Green Tench, Golden Rudd and Goldfish. Net worked but was an eyesore. German Shepherd works but wants reward. Decoy has never worked in it's life. Best method so far is having two lines at different heights strung around perimeter of pond. Have not seen a single heron land for the last couple of month's. They still fly over but carry on flying. Regards..

Stop feeding mine when water temp drops below 10C. Have read many articles stating that digestive system can not cope at colder temperatures. If they do want food there is always plenty in the shape of algae or suchlike. Regards..