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Pond query

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  Posted by daydaisy (U14260695) on Monday, 19th March 2012

  Today I fished a horrible bloated frog out of my little pond. I suspect the corpse has been there some time as I thought it was just vegetation until the pond cleared in the recent rain. I am now wondering if the pond water is polluted and will harm my two goldfish. They seem OK at present. Any thoughts on this ?

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  Posted by Pondman11 (U14948536) on Monday, 19th March 2012

  jee usually frogs blow up when they are stuck under the ice in winter so they have probably been in there some time, they have never harmed my fish but i do have a filter with a UV bulb which gets rid of all the nasty s. I would say leave it nothings happened yet and you said its been in there a few weeks, if you were thinking of replacing the water then defiantly don't this will probably cause more harm to your fish and plants.

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  Posted by daydaisy (U14260695) on Tuesday, 20th March 2012

  jee usually frogs blow up when they are stuck under the ice in winter so they have probably been in there some time, they have never harmed my fish but i do have a filter with a UV bulb which gets rid of all the nasty s. I would say leave it nothings happened yet and you said its been in there a few weeks, if you were thinking of replacing the water then defiantly don't this will probably cause more harm to your fish and plants.  Thanks for that Pondman.I will just leave things as they are as long as the fish seem to be OK . I had thought of replacing just some of the water with rain water out of the water butt. It's surprising that the fish survived and not the frog. I did keep a hole de-iced with the help of an old saucepan and hot water.

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  Posted by Pondman11 (U14948536) on Tuesday, 20th March 2012

  There would defiantly be no point in doing a part water change as if there was a disease it would only mix in anyway however i am fairly confident there is no disease and that the frog was just stuck under the ice earlier in the year. Using your water butt to fill the pond is defiantly a good idea and is better than using tap water, but in this case i wouldn't bother wasting the water and save it and use it on the plants when we have this " Drought "

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