Swordtails for pond?

[VR1Ton]

Pygmy Perch will definately eat tadpoles, White Clouds will not, I've got a 2ooltr tub outside the widow next to the computer with about 60 - 100 Clouds in it, & nearly the same in tadpoles.

If you want to go with natives, Black-Barred Rainbows M nigrans, & Murry River Rainbow M fluvitalus, they will take cooler water than other rainbows.

[Redwing]

Di just google Litoria Moorei. And no they don't ride motor bikes, just sound like one. However I have got a nice photo of one who used to sit each night on the wheel of one of the kids push bikes that had been left under the pagola. They're Perth's commonest frog and will lay eggs in any water once you've got them in your backyard. Had a pair lay hundreds of eggs in the chooks water bucket the other day. Put the pair and as many eggs as I could in the frog pond to give them a better chance.

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VR1 - LOL, someone from a fish shop today told me the opposite which made no sense to me as I would expect the bigger fish to be the taddy eating one!
Redwing wow looks like your frogs are doing really well. Our first one has "fledged" and is now somewhere in the garden.

[Redwing]

Congratulations on your first transformer Flab. We only started with 10 tadpoles from a neighbour and now they're all through the garden.Their numbers do find a balance and realistically it's just as well all the eggs and tadpoles don't survive to maturity or there wouldn't be enough food/ habitat for them all, so if the platies do eat some of the eggs as VR1TON says will happen (we didn't realize that) we're not too worried, but might take his advice and add a few of the native Australian fish to the pond.

[fincher]

Flab the WA native pygmy pearch are fine wit not eating the frog spores or taddies and will eat the mosquitor larve. with the swordtails and that if now is the time to put them in ur ponds just before it starts getting cooler theyll b able to aclimatise them.

[E Orix]

While this has nothing to do with birds I have found these comments interesting and it has answered a question of mine.
Last year I had a pond 10mx5mx600mm deep created in our front. It has been a total success,visibly and for the birds to drink at etc
I have been dreading the time when the frogs discovered it. The pond is 3 bricks high out of the ground and still no frogs yet there are absolutely thousands in the area. I now realise that the fish in the pond are eating not just the babby Mozzies and possibly the frogs eggs if any are in the pond.
Apart from the normal Goldfish which have grown, many over 200mm long I was also given 10 Red Gilled ? from Mike F's pond. These are apparently local to northern NSW and have bred even quicker than mice.
Also one of our tennants was moving out and had 5 large fish, possibly tropical and they went in to,as we get frosts will those fish have any chance of survival through our winter. I may try and google what species they could be.I doubt if they were carnivorous types.

[Redwing]

The taddies wouldn't stand a chance with the Goldfish, don't know about the others. Our first batch of taddies we put a couple in a small tank with Warren the Goldfish as the kids wanted to watch them grow up. It wasn't a pretty sight but was all over too quick to rescue them. Was almost as bad as when son bought a marron and decided (against advice) to put him in with Warren. We now have Warren the second who lives in the tank alone.

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Redwing - we now have mosquito larvae in the frog pond, so plenty of food for the platys when we get them and you weren't wrong re taddies being vegetarian. They are demolishing the water lilly!