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When we built our Koi pond several years ago the experts all said to let it age in a week or two before we put in any fish. We built it in the spring and filled it with well water. The next night it was a toad orgy. Toads we humping and laying eggs by the thousands. It was astonishing. By the time we got the fish in there there were zillions of tadpoles. When the tadpoles turned into toads we would go out every evening and pick up 50 or 60 baby toads. I put them in a bucket and went down to a local creek and sang born free. We had toads everywhere that year. The next year the fish were big enough to keep up with most of the population explosion of toads.
A couple of years ago I did not see one single toad. This year we only had a few. Lots of lizards, and some teeny tiny snakes that eat earthworms. They are not much bigger than a worm.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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