I live in FL and have a pool that seems to attract frogs all night long! how do i get rid of them?
Question:there are litterally hundreds of them! they croak at all hours of the night, and i think they're mating in our pool! please tell me what i can do to get rid of the little croakers! i'm sleep deprived and desperate!
Answers:
Keep your filtration system running at night as frogs are not fond of moving water. Raise the chlorine level of the pool and maintain it at 3-5ppm. They do not like elevated chlorine levels and will vacate the area after a few days with higher chlorine and moving water to contend with.
If they are "mating" in your pool you will have floating rafts of eggs visible the next morning, remove these with a skimmer net and double check your water chemistry. Preferably take it down to your local pool store and have them run a full spectrum analysis on it (the normal tests plus metals, nitrite/nitrate, and phosphates). You may find the frogs are introducing all sorts of interesting compounds to your water if they are getting in there.
Move to Canada.
We have a pool and water garden. All frogs are killed on sight! sounds horrific, but the fish do a fine job on their own.
Frogs simply don't contribute to the garden balance. Do not poison them, but do remove them. You might contact a nursery and/or pool company and find out what type of chemicals can be used in the pool that frogs don't like.
We have never had frogs in the chlorine pool, just the water garden area.
Well, to make sure you don't end up with thousands of dead frogs in your pool, I would put several large pieces of wood in the pool to float around where the frogs can climb on them and jump out when the occasion arises (i.e. the wood comes close to the edge of the pool).
This will save you a tremendous amount of netting their bodies out later.
As far as preventing them? Open a home cookin' restaurant and serve frog legs?
Sounds more like like toads, but either way they need somewhere to go during the day. You must have something near your pool that they are living in. Get rid of their condo and they will go. You could also get a dog or cat to harass them, but that brings other problems.
I have read on the Internet that "reptile professors" in Tallahassee, discovered that if you want to deter frogs without harming them, all you do is spray a heavy concentrate of "SALT WATER" around the areas you don't want them.
What happens is the salt will sting the feet and this makes em move out. Be careful if you have sensitive plants.
Note: Plants of almost any kind hate salt water and it will kill most greenery especially with repeated spraying. But this sounds like a fantastic tip if applied sparingly - and the only effective one I've heard of.
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