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Pond Chat / Tadpoles....lots of them!
« on: June 04, 2010, 02:53:18 PM »
Hello!
I'm Jillian and I'm so, so new to all of this. I have always loved ponds and waterfalls but raising 4 children never left time for fun stuff like that! Now that I'm down to just one child (12 year old "surprise baby" that's a blast!) I'm finding more time for myself...so, I bought a small, plastic molded 65 gallon pond a few weeks ago at Home Depot and everything was going okay... till yesterday morning when I noticed we had literally 100's of tadpoles swimming back and forth Pac-Man like, eating every little bit of algae off the sides of the pond and plants!
What should I do?? The algae is almost completely gone, and I'm afraid they will start eating those very expensive plants next!! Any advise would be very much appreciated!
I'm Jillian and I'm so, so new to all of this. I have always loved ponds and waterfalls but raising 4 children never left time for fun stuff like that! Now that I'm down to just one child (12 year old "surprise baby" that's a blast!) I'm finding more time for myself...so, I bought a small, plastic molded 65 gallon pond a few weeks ago at Home Depot and everything was going okay... till yesterday morning when I noticed we had literally 100's of tadpoles swimming back and forth Pac-Man like, eating every little bit of algae off the sides of the pond and plants!
What should I do?? The algae is almost completely gone, and I'm afraid they will start eating those very expensive plants next!! Any advise would be very much appreciated!
