Your average Motorbike frog is not a fussy individual. He will be happy with a bucket full of water if it means he may have the chance of attracting a willing partner.

Start by choosing a site. If you have some good plants growing already in your garden you may want to locate your pond in and around these. The frogs will be able to find refuge and food in a well established ecosystem.

Climbing plants are great for Motorbike frogs. They will dwell as much in the complex vine system of a passion fruit as they will in their watery den.

If you are starting from scratch there is so much scope for the imagination.Start by designing and digging the hole for your pond. If you are planning to line your hole with black plastic or pond liner, the sky is the limit.

You are the designer of your pond and can go with what ever shape you like. Try to make it at least 50cm deep and about 80cm long by about 40cm wide.

When you are happy with the dimensions of your hole, measure the length, width and depth and calculate the amount of liner you will need to purchase.

The length + two times the depth = the length of the liner and the width + two times the depth = the width of the liner. Add about 20cm for overhang and you should be right.Hardware stores like Bunnings have black plastic in pre-cut amounts.

If these sizes don’t suit you can get pond liner by the metre from stores like Water Garden World in Balcatta or Victoria Park. Pond liner is more expensive but is very supple and great quality.

Don’t get me wrong, though, black plastic is more than good enough. Hold your liner down with anything you can find.

Rocks, bricks, building rubble, if your family is anything like mine, you will have collected favourite rocks from all your holiday destinations.

So there you have it - your pond shell is ready for the next stage water and planting.

We found on Flickr a really cute Motorbike Frog photo. The photographer - Marcus Visic - has given permission to use this frog image on our site.

Thanks Marcus, this is a beauty.

Our motorbike frogs had high hopes over the summer. They were trying to attract a mate to share their yard and ponds.

We’ve got two ponds at the moment. One has a permanent community of gambezia and native perch. The other pond has a selection of koi and goldfish. We have two three year old motorbike frogs we bred ourselves from collected tadpoles at the school pond. We also have recently emerged motorbike frog babies.

The frogs inhabit the whole yard including both ponds. Now and then they will even have a dip in the swimming pool. The more mature frogs like to hang out near the back door which we like to think is their way of saying hello. These frogs started calling last November and continued until about January. It is such a lovely sound.

During the summer nights we sit out by the pool with our visitors. Suddenly the frogs will start up and everyone goes quiet listening to them. It makes the night something special.

I don’t think the frog calling attracted a mate because we haven’t seen any new comers or tadpoles. Maybe next summer. For our frogs and our family it is something to look forward to!