A frog has moved into our pond!

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Hi, so our lockdown project was to rennovate an old pond that was in the garden and completely grown over when we moved in last Autumn. We've cleaned it out, put plants and water in etc. We got a few goldfish over the summer and they are doing really well and now we have noticed baby fish in the pond as well.

Today my DH found a frog has moved into the pond. Not sure how as it has straight sides and we haven't really done anything yet to make it wildlife friendly as such. That was going to be a later project! I should also mention there is a net over the pond as there is local gossip of an otter in the area that takes fish.

The frog looks ever so cute and I am thrilled it's moved in; but the kids are really worried it's going to eat all the fish (none of them are very big, and the babies are obviously tiny)!

Just wondering if anyone else has any experience of this? There is a wildlife stream about half a mile away that we could maybe relocate the frog too? I would like it to stay if possible but don't want to end up with no fish; especially as the kids have named them and are very fond of feeding them!
Thanks

I'm so jealous- we've never had one in ours! I'd love one to move in and start eating its way through the army of slugs in my garden! From what I've read they will eat fish on occasion but they aren't their primary diet, they tend to focus on insects instead.

The frog is unlikely to eat your fish. Watch out for Mr Heron though! Our pond was like a McDonalds drive through for him!!

Frogs won't eat the fish. They eat earthworms, bugs, flying insects, slugs etc. Not fish (not even teeny babies)

I go out every night with my torch to sit by my pond to cool off. Normally I have about 12 frogs chilling on the lilypads and in the reeds.

I have 2 very fat huge fish (currently having sexee time) and so many sticklebacks from enormous 4 inchers to teeny weeny teeny babies and all sizes in between.

Frogs won't eat the fish but the adult fish might plus herons who might use it as a fly by takeaway service . Also dragonfly nymphs or water beetle larvae. But not ze froggies.

Oh thanks for your replies. Great news I can reassure the kids it's unlikely froggie will be lunching on their fish!

I'm keeping the adults well fed with plenty of food in the hopes they won't eat the smaller ones as their is plenty of "proper" food for them!

I haven't seen a heron yet but we have loads of seagulls around so that was also a reason for the net.

The first thing you need to do is provide some means for the frog to get out of the pond - a pile of stones, or a sloping plank. At this time of year they are out and about on land, he's probably in the pond to keep cool in the day, but he needs to be out at night so he can feed.