Tips for getting rid of frogs ?

[wayner]

What Ive gleaned form this thread is that you should put fish in your hot tub :-)

[KFC911]

You need a princess....

[911 Rod]

Turn up the hot tub.

Frog legs are delicious!

[willtel]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Invite some French people over for dinner and drinks.

I'd love to have frogs around the place. As a kid I loved the sounds of frogs in the hot summer nights. I've only seen one or two in the last decade.

My daughter comes downstairs a few times a week after bedtime saying she can’t sleep because the frogs are too loud. My wife is terrified of them and won’t go outside after dark unless she absolutely has to.

I have a thing in my pool called a frog log that allows them to climb out once they finish swimming or whatever it is they do in there. It really cut down on critters in the skimmer.

[SCadaddle]

I actually had a pair of American Green Tree Frogs that had free roam of my home, but mainly hung out in a big plant by the window. Kept crickets and mealworms in an open terrarium with water dishes. Bite of food or a soak in the dish, they knew where to go. The male--"PWoody" lived 4 years and the female--"Spike" passed away a year later.

PWoody would on occasion roam and being a male, it only took the recorded sound of another male for him to give up his hiding spot. Here's a more memorable one....

[Bill Douglas]

Originally Posted by willtel

My daughter comes downstairs a few times a week after bedtime saying she can’t sleep because the frogs are too loud. My wife is terrified of them and won’t go outside after dark unless she absolutely has to.

Hehe, yep, tell your wife they are pretty scary.

I'm jealous. I'd love there to be frogs around here.

[ckelly78z]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

Hehe, yep, tell your wife they are pretty scary.

I'm jealous. I'd love there to be frogs around here.

The frogs in our water garden out in the front of our house are so loud, we have trouble hearing the TV at night....My wife will pick them up, if she can catch them.

[stevej37]

Originally Posted by SCadaddle

I actually had a pair of American Green Tree Frogs that had free roam of my home, but mainly hung out in a big plant by the window. Kept crickets and mealworms in an open terrarium with water dishes. Bite of food or a soak in the dish, they knew where to go. The male--"PWoody" lived 4 years and the female--"Spike" passed away a year later.

PWoody would on occasion roam and being a male, it only took the recorded sound of another male for him to give up his hiding spot. Here's a more memorable one....

That is a great video!
The same type of frogs hang around my pond. During the day they hide behind the plastic shutters on my garage (next to the pond)
Amazing the amount of sound that they can make.

[JJ 911SC]

For the last few years I had small Toad under the cover, move them out but they are back the next day.

They don't go in the water they just hang around for the humidity.

[wayner]

We had a big toad that kept coming back and I kept getting **** for not having taken him far enough away so that he would keep sneaking up on my wife when she was doing the gardening and scaring the crap out of her.

The icing on the cake was the day she reached in among her flowers to pick up some leaves, and ended up picking him up by one of his legs instead

[masraum]

this thread is awesome

[Otter74]

Do you have a ribbit gun?

[Deschodt]

Originally Posted by masraum

this thread is awesome

Yeah, it's not really helpful but I'm laughing my a$$ off... "Let go of the israelites" was a gem - thanks for that !

If it was missed in the hilarity, I have a cover, but because the tub is partically sunk in the deck and pushed in a corner (wall on 2 sides), while I cover it I cannot snap the cover 100% tight on 2 sides. Wasn't a problem for many years either... Lately those little frogs are all over, even far from the tub, other side of the house - I wonder what predator croaked ?

Bulding a mesh on a wood frame is not a bad idea but terribly impractical for storage/using the original heat-conserving cover over it, and that tub shape has more bends and elevation changes than the surface of the millenium falcon... I'm gonna spray bugkiller, salt and coffee in the back corners, put weight on the cover, and try one more time... If I can't soak my old back or get jets on it, I'm gonna need meds ;-(

[wayner]

Predator?

By a pet crane and tie it up next to the pond, er, I mean hot tub!! :-)

[SCadaddle]

Hey,

We're doing you a favor by controlling the insects. You want bugs in your tub? Leave us to go about our business and enhance your local ecosystem.

Warmest Regards from the Hot Tub,
The Frogs

[scottmandue]

I have heard that some people who don't like chlorine use salt.... perhaps a salt solution would discourage the frogs?

[scottmandue]

Pipe some natural gas or propane into the center of the tub and keep a constant flame going on top of the water, cut down on the heating bill too!

[JJ 911SC]

If it's not one it's another...

[RKDinOKC]

At my old house we had a light on over the garage doors. In each corner of the garage door sat a toad. They looked like statues. We never had many bugs around the light.

When I moved I left my porch light on. After a couple of years noticed this huge toad in the flower bed close to the porch light. It was almost a foot in diameter. My next door neighbor (a primary school teacher) took it to her school on day without asking. She killed my bug zapper!!!

Maybe you could put a night light away from your hot tub that would attract them to the bugs attracted by the light.

[futurefun]

I live in the sticks above a creek & wetlands. When the frogs are serenading loudly spring is not far away. Much sweeter than traffic noise.