# Do you have a pond?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-pond/654929>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 5, 2013, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-pond/654929 "2013-04-05T16:16:32Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2013, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-pond/654929/21 "2013-04-05T19:40:48Z")

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Our neighborhood has a large pond/small lake. On summer evenings one crazy old codger takes a small boat out to the middle and fishes. I don’t know if he catches anything or if it’s just a place where nobody can catch him. Maybe I should take my toddler and some stale bread there and see if there are little fish to feed. With bread, not with the toddler. That would take a large fish.

Friends of ours have an ornamental pond with goldfish and frogs and water lilies. They have perpetual trouble with the liner springing leaks.

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**Author:** ![slowlearner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@slowlearner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slowlearner)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-pond/654929/22 "2013-04-06T01:57:28Z")

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I have a small plastic pond I built a bed around, and always keep a couple of small containers full of water around the house because I love frogs. I have an old 10" metate in the front bed and most evenings I can find a leopard frog squatting in it. Live on a windy prairie ridge so don’t have much problem with skeeters, problem with keeping shingles on the roof though…

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**Author:** ![\_Olive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/4af34b/32.png) [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-pond/654929/23 "2013-04-06T02:10:13Z")

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I have small ponds in dragon pots. Lots of fish and a few toads I would rather not have. I love water lilies.

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**Author:** ![CateAyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-pond/654929/24 "2013-04-06T02:21:44Z")

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Two large (fish/farm) ponds. Lots o’fish. Also, they are wildlife ponds as I live in the wilderness. I was obliged to capture and relocate a three-legged gator last summer. He had returned to my big pond the last two springs and he was getting too big to be so close to the homestead.

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**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-a-pond/654929/25 "2013-04-06T22:59:44Z")

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> [@\_Olive](#):
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> I have small ponds in dragon pots. Lots of fish and a few toads I would rather not have. I love water lilies.

Toads are cool and they eat a lot of bugs. YAY TOADS!

StG

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