Hi! I didn't know this section was here, so I've copied in a thread I'd put elsewhere. I am unable to work so spend amy hours working on, or just sitting by, my ponds.

About my ponds:
Do you get frogs? No
Frogspawn? No
Tadpoles? No
Toads? No
Toadspawn? No
Toadpoles? No
Smooth newts? No
Palmate newts? Yes - by the dozen!
Great crested newts? No
Do you have fish? Yes - by the hundreds!
What sort? Goldfish, Koi
Do you have a pump? Yes and no - see below
Filter? Yes and no - see below
Do you have oxygenators? (underwater plants) Yes
Do you have marginal plants? Yes
County/ region or town: Conwy, N.Wales
Type of pond: wildlife/ ornamental/ fish Fish

How big is your pond? 50L, 2 x 200L, 350L
How old? Oldest 4 years

Type of location? City, rural, etc Light urbanisation between rock outcrop and the sea

Anything else interesting about your pond?
It all started with a model railway...... My partner has a garden layout and wanted it to run over a bridge, so we dug a hole in the ground, put in a sheet of liner, planted a few plants to look pretty and installed the bridge.
Then we decided a few fish would be nice, so we bought 6 little goldfish (2" long) 4 summers ago. They grew and grew and grew and (much to our surprise) bred. Only 8 survived from that hatching, but even so the pond was too small for 14, so we decided to buy a formed 200L liner with a ledge around for marginal plants. Another hole was dug, which resulted in a railway embankment for the railway.... The following summer over 300 fry survived. They had stayed on the ledge until they were big enough to be safe to move out to deeper water. So partner decided we'd have another 200L pond with a waterfall between the two (but with seperate pumps & filtration for each). Another hole was dug and a mountain side for the railway to climb... I decided to reclaim the area of the little pond & thankfully I didn't just chuck earth in. As I drained it, I discovered palmate newts from about 3/4" to 4" long. Panic! I had destroyed the habitat as the pond drained, so ended up with 27 newts in a bucket of mud. That's when the 350 L pond arrived. This time I left it above ground, with rustic fencing and logs around the front and a stone wall at the back. This pond has no pump or filtration. I put mud and all the plants I could into the pond, then filled it with a some water from the other ponds and rainwater from our barrels. I left it 3 days then put the newts in. They have bred for the last 2 years. Hopefully they will again. Hedgehogs overwintered in the log pile last year. There are 5 Koi in one of the ponds now and we have given away more than 400 goldfish since we started our "accidental" breeding programme. We could do with taking out 30 - 50 at the moment if anybody would like them? I'm in N.Wales, near Llandudno. (Sorry for the essay!)
PS. Today I've discovered a colony of bees nesting in the stones at the pondside!