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Pond organisms such as beetles, insects, snails and other invertebrates will eventually colonise a new pond, but this can be speeded up by bringing, with permission, a few bucketfuls of pond sediment from a nearby healthy pond of the type you wish to create. Amphibians will find their way to the pond if there is...