Frog Pond | Build a Pond for Frogs - Part 1 

I’m not afraid of frogs. I just get jumpscared if a frog jumps on my direction.

FANTASTIC TEACHER.....POND WITHOUT THE PUMP...THIS IS WHAT I CALL PROPER ENVIRONMENT SAVIOUR....PLEASE WATCH ALL HIS EPISODES.. HE IS GREAT....WELL DONE

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oh.... it is my dream to have a huge frog pond in my backyard. i just want to sit nearby and watch the little froggies. this is such a cool video, i'll definitely be referring to it later! thank you ^_^

Thanks for caring for frogs

That IS a mighty fine kidney bean! Your videos and work is awesome!

Thank you for a well thought out demonstration and instruction! Wish I found this earlier! We used to have small California Tree Frogs in our backyard and I think they may have been breeding in our pool as I used to find dead ones in our filtering system! Unfortunately, we haven't seen nor heard them for several years now!

my pond is shallow around the outside, i noticed 4 frogs, i also have guppies and gold fish, the plants are important, they keep the water clear. it is a great hobbie. i put my pond in my front yard for the neighborhood to enjoy. Every time im out feeding the fish, or just making an adjustment, someone walking by comments, people are actually coming from around the block to get a look at my pond, it's pretty cool. neighbors driving by even stop. so im pretty happy with it, lots of positive feedback

Hi Eric, I thank you so much for your advice and clear videos. I have built many ponds over the last 27 years and now with your help do I understand why some things work and others don't here in South Oz. Thanks again

Very cool! One of the reasons I built my pond was to attract frogs. Its not a true wildlife pond, I have goldfish too, but the frogs do come!

So I have followed this series step by step and ended up with a good looking frog pond, although I haven't quite chosen the right sized rocks as there is LOTS of black liner still shwoing, but plenty of time to solve that :-) The main problem I have is that within a week of filling the pond, it went quite green. To counter it, I added some 'beneficial bacteria' which I had forgotten to do. But this turned the whole pond black within a couple of hours. Is this OK? Or has something gone horrible wrong? When it was green I could still see the bottom... the boulders and gravel. But now, its just pitch black.

Awesome, Can't wait to make a frog pond in the future!

Best video I've seen watched all parts.Thanks so much.

Good video. I've seen most of your videos, and am now checking out the Frog Pond series. Thanks for sharing flora/fauna/habitat facts in all your videos.

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Thanks for the videos, very clear and helpful!

There should be a deeper layer to about two feet for frogs to go to if they seek darker water.

This is so awesome! Thank you! You need a belt for your jeans for the next video...lol :)

this is awesome. Love the idea of a frog pond.

Excellent project!!!!

So my great delimma is that the tree frogs come in abunbance really quick. The problem is that eventually the green and leopard frogs move in and chase the singing frogs away. For that I think I will keep it shallow. I may have to drain it annually to "reboot" the process. Got one in my back yard, but ever since I got chickens they knocked a lot of the smaller frogs out. :-(. So building one in my front yard where there are no chicks on hopefuly frogs.

Hopefully the spray paint residue doesn’t contaminate the pond…You could lay out the shape of the pond with some string…

hey thats good ideas

When I move in going to build a big pond get some trees around it and other plants get some frog and fish and through them in and make a small Eco system

You mentioned that the water should be stagnant. I am designing my Fish pond and was wondering if to the side of the falls and cascade, I could put a smaller version of this Frog pond? It would be on the upper area of the backfilled soil of the retaining wall, getting it's supply of water from one of the cascade pools and then overflowing into the larger fish pond through rocks and gravel, instead of over them. Would this method cause the water to be too swift for a proper Frog habitat?

Im going to do this

Muito muito obrigada, mudei para uma casa há 1 ano e de vez enquando surge um sapinho, queria fazer algum local para quando ele surgisse, mas que ficasse livre....vou tentar reproduzir em tamanho menor claro aqui em casa. Lucia RJ/Brasil/Thank you very much, I moved to a house 1 year ago and every now and then a thrush appears, I wanted to make a place for it when it appeared, but that was free....I'll try to reproduce it in a smaller size of course here at home. Lucia RJ/Brazil/

In choosing a location for my frog pond, how much sunlight or shade do I need to have on it? I have a lot of open area that doesn't get much shade until late in the evenings, or I have a couple spots that get partial shade most of the day. Love what you do, thanks for sharing! I built a very small waterfall and stream a few weeks ago after doing a video marathon of your channel. It turned out fairly well for a first attempt, and it's attracted a frog or two. Would love to make the frog pond for my second project.

This is awsome

The pond doesnt look 12 inch deep

I built a frog pond last year Ann's out turned out great. MINUS the raccoons that got in and tore up all the plants and ate all the tadpoles and frog eggs. How can I deter the coons. One thought was to make a straight drop into the pond instead of any areas that can be used as a "beach". Electric fences are a no go.

i'm helping my friend turn an unmaintained body of water into a frog pond hopefully it works

Please could you do a vid in about 2-3 weeks so show how clean the water is and how you do it my pond went green I have 8 small gold fish in there and about 5 plants lodes of frogs but I can't see the fish how can I make the water more clear thanks tommy

Thinks soooo muche

Thank you so much for this video! Question about sun vs shade... I've heard conflicting advice. Our pond will be almost identical design as yours. People have told me that a no pump pond needs to be away from trees to prevent too much debris from getting in the pond. Others have said that toads/frogs prefer shaded ponds. I have both a sun or shade spot where I can build the pond. What do you recommend and why? We live in Colorado outside of Denver. it may be possible for me to plant an evergreen to shade the pool and won't drop leaves in the fall, but there would still be some debris from the needles.

uhmm i have a question tho, is the spray can was toxic to the ground?

I love frogs I have a pond but we have to get rid of it so I’m going to catch them and created this pond

As I understand it, one must dig the pond three feet deep in colder climates where it freezes because frogs will not choose a shallow habitat in those regions. Comments?

Underlined is just basic garden under liner and looks like black visqueen for your liner. Is that correct?

I really want to do this, I'm just worried about cats and raccoons messing with the frogs. Is there any way to deter it?

Could you add small goldfish to this?

How do you build a frog pond in Canada? since we have winter and it gets up to -40 Celsius, how would we do a fish pond and a frog pond to handle those icy days?

I live in Istanbul, Turkey, where water freezes in the winter for a few days maybe a week. Is this frog pond a bad idea for the climate i live in? Or is there a way that i can prevent freezing. I don't know maybe adding pumps for moving water or something?

If you don’t mind if I ask but what type of frog is in the thumbnail, those type of frogs are all over my town and I can’t find out what species of frog it is

How big does a frog pond need to be? I don't have that much space to build a pond, but I'd love to make a small one to attract frogs. I'm thinking maybe 3 x 4 or so. I could make it deeper than 12 inches if that would help.

I am fine with the frogs in my pond, sometimes they are too loud.

What would I do during the winter since I live in New York?

Frogs chirp not croak, I have 10 tree frogs plus 2 reed frogs. Setting up habitat for dart frogs for future purchases. I have leopard frogs and a rotten bullfrog in my small outdoor pond. Isn't that the same spot that you did your first video on building a pond?

Dont use an aerosol can not good for the environment. Great talk will do it as well.

#SAVETHEFROGS

As much as I hate to say it, this pond will little to save frogs. In Northern climes you need a minimum 2-1/2 feet depth so they have chance of surviving the winter months.

I have a question I hope you can answer. I have a ecosystem pond and discovered a giant waterbug hiding under my lily pads above where my koi hang out and where my frogs hang out. I have noticed I have less big frogs lately. I am sure it is the bug. I have tried to catch it to kill it but have been unsuccessful. I don't want it getting my koi or more frogs. Any way to get rid of it and/ keep them from wanting to be in my pond?

hi is it important to have a liner for frogs ???

a few hundred is a lot of money

were did you buy get the driftwood and boulders from?

Mister I have a pond for turtles but we have a lot of alga(I'm Dutch so I don't no the right word but it's cald algen in Dutch) in the pond how can I get that away?

Would salamanders also go in that pond

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If you want to build a pond to atract wildlife you shouldn't had fish at all,specially mosquito fish, they're predators of tadpoles and great consumers of zooplancton