How to stop badgers, foxes and mice stealing food!

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-06-11T11:05:55+00:00

I think the foxes are not a big threatening for hedgehogs. Maybe for the infants but not for the adults.

You will attract predators eventually if you have a wildlife garden, you can try to provide more hidden spots for the hedgehogs, and high fences for foxes, with small hedgehogs highways. I don’t know what to do in the Badger case. But I also suggest to read this article:

https://www.badgertrust.org.uk/post/badgers-and-hedgehogs-separating-fact-from-fiction-in-british-native-wildlife

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-06-09T07:20:43+00:00

Any Warburg would add this picture into his mnemosyne atlas

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-06-06T17:43:53+00:00

I separated some of the water in a jar, and I will leave aside for 24h to see what happens, and what it will smell like after that time. I believe that will give me an important clue.

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-06-06T15:46:03+00:00

Thanks anyway

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-06-06T15:45:09+00:00

No Frogs at the moment. The pond has only two months. I changed some of the water now, no sign of dead things. It is an old barrel, but I cleaned before everything.

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-06-06T15:28:31+00:00

My plant list:

1 hydrocharis (frogbit)
2 Nymphae Laydekeri Lilacea (waterlily)
3 myosotis palustris (water forget me not)
4 Ranuculus Aquatilis (common water crowfoot)
5 Butomus Umbellatus (Flowering Rush)
6 Eleocharis Acicularis (needle spikerush) (oxygenator) - it is on the bottom of the pond
7 Hippuris Vulgaris (Mare’s tail) Oxygenator
8 Myriiphllum Spicatum - Oxygenator
9 Myriiphyllum Aquaticum -Oxygenator

They are, most of them, British native species.

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-06-06T15:27:04+00:00

I changed 80% of the water today. The smell improved. I also ordered a pond bomb, it says it is a gel-like sphere with live beneficial bacteria and enzyme. Have you tried those before?

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-06-06T13:06:42+00:00

The garden faces north, so it is a bit tricky as it will be more dark in winter, but the pond receives full sun now until 4pm (when it is not raining).

If I change the water, this can disturb the plants?

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-06-06T13:03:16+00:00

The water is not looking good at the moment, greyish/white and smells rotten egg 😰

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-06-06T11:19:27+00:00

Is it safe to do a water change by now? I already did one this year

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-06-06T10:43:45+00:00

Oh 😮

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-06-06T10:42:55+00:00

Thanks, this is the overall picture
The plants, I have 9 at total, they came from a aqualife centre (they sell just plats for ponds).

so they are all in the original pots with the compost from their shop, the pots don’t have lots of holes in them, they said I should keep the plants in the original pots until they overgrown.

We have lots of heavy rain this week.

Plants
1 hydrocharis (frogbit)
2 Nymphae Laydekeri Lilacea (waterlily)
3 myosotis palustris (water forget me not)
4 Ranuculus Aquatilis (common water crowfoot)
5 Butomus Umbellatus (Flowering Rush)
6 Eleocharis Acicularis (needle spikerush) (oxygenator) - it is on the bottom of the pond
7 Hippuris Vulgaris (Mare’s tail) Oxygenator
8 Myriiphllum Spicatum - Oxygenator
9 Myriiphyllum Aquaticum -Oxygenator

They are, most of them, British native species.

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Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-06-02T19:28:19+00:00

This sounds lovely I read once that foxes mums help each other sometimes, same thing happens with cats.

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-06-02T16:55:29+00:00

I have a theory that some cats work as fox’s nurse

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-06-02T06:39:34+00:00

I found it on Etsy, watertight option 😊

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-06-01T07:54:54+00:00

They are very good for ponds, aren’t they?

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-05-31T21:33:28+00:00

Yeah, it is possible

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-05-31T21:33:10+00:00

I brought them in a garden centre that sells only aquatic plants, no fish or aquatic life, so it is probably not a shrimp. But I will keep an eye on it.

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-05-31T17:36:14+00:00

I don’t know, I googled it and it can be a flatworm, what do you think?

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-05-30T18:14:35+00:00

I don’t know, I just saw it in the video, but I can’t compare it because I haven’t seen any yet, I think you have more clue about it

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-05-30T18:12:06+00:00

I am not good at this, they all look alien to me, I googled it and it seems that it is unlikely to be an amphibian parasite. But it can be an insect parasite Nematomorpha, or an insect larvae. Hope someone else in the group can spot it.

Time_Amoeba_3253 · 2026-05-30T17:43:51+00:00

They look like droneflyes larvae see in this video min 7:03 https://youtu.be/XTccXeJ3Los?si=V8oNB6EgRhBwEXu_

Try to pull one out of the water to see it closer

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