Full Circle, ponds are hard to figure out for me. I used to have frogs and tadpoles but not the numbers I had this year. Probably because I had big fish of all kinds that probably eat them in my old pond. So this is a new kind of pond taking place from what I used to have. Good or bad I don't know. I'm thinking of giving lots more cover around the pond then I ever did before. Mostly cattails which isn't for most people. In my opinion the tadpoles and dragonflies are keeping the mosquito's & larva down and the FA is eaten by the tadpoles.
I left all my trees lining two fields just for the wildlife. Most around here bulldoze them for more planting space. I also live in an 8 acre woods and actually have made (planted 5 1/2 acres) a woods around the pond area mostly for wildlife and my serenity.
By the way I counted the 6"x6" poles yesterday on the 12'x24' platform and there are actually 15, not 12.
