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how can i get frogs in my small garden pond?

i have a allotment, which i have installed a small pond in. Last year i transfered some tadpols from a local park into the pond, they seemed fine but i didnt get any returning this year. should i have tranfered frogsborn or is it wrong to even try and bring any form from one place to another? should i just wait untill they come by themselvs- if so how can i encourage them e.g special plants

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1. The frogs will arrive. Be sure you have submerged and floating vegetation. They also love to hide between and under rocks.
2. Is your pond real or man-made? If it's plastic, the frogs will have trouble hibernating without mud to bury themselves in and it's not likely you'll get a surviving population.
3. when we had a pond, the frogs just came where we do not know and came every year,then we moved
4. I have an inground 100 gal. pond (plastic); there are goldfish and plants in the pond andthe frogs always come; they hide out in the rockery and garden areas.
5. Frogs are migratory so they will eventually come on their own. They will also leave on their own. If eggs are laid and tadpoles are born then the frogs usually return to their birth home to mate. Some FAQ's about frogs http://www.learner.org/jnorth/search/Frog.html Frogs often return to their birth place to reproduce, which can result in mass migration of huge numbers of frogs. http://www.helium.com/items/1297061-a-look-at-the-stages-of-a-frogs-life One day you walk out to the pond and all of a sudden there they are. Sometimes they are there but you don't see them because when they see or hear you they jump in the water. Once they get use to you they'll just sit on a lilly pad and watch you. 3 years ago I had my first frog spawn and then thousands of tadpoles. I think the koi and goldfish ate some of them.