Tips for getting rid of frogs ?
 

In the hot tub specifically ?

Little bastards (1.5" max) love soaking in... Trust me a hot tub doesn't feel as nice when one climbs on you or you realize they left not so little froggy turds behind. Clean water with good balance of chlorine and PH that usually stays good for a longtime will look like crap as fast as in a few days after they visit and start pooping and possibly having froggy sex in there... Never had this problem before in 20y of having a tub, but they seem to always come back... Custom fitted impregnable cover is $$$ and hard to do as the thing is wedged against a corner wall, Thinking an elastic netting but that also won't be super practical if it can even get made at all... looking for a chemical solution (sorry frogs) that works to dissuade them or failing that, worse....

Any chemical solution that irritates frogs will probably irritate you worse. A barrier is the best solution and I thought all hot tub owners kept them always covered when not in use. It keeps out a lot of nasties... including frogs.

They are small and devious enough to defeat the cover. Probably in the middle where it folds. It’s backed into a corner so I cannot snap it 100% tight but never had any issues in years. A barrier sounds good but nobody sells giant eleastic mesh - thinking chemicals around the tub. I googled it and none of the folklore stuff works apparently.

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.

Coffee. Seriously. Getting rid of frogs using coffee

Yea, Frogs generally like that 'orrible cafe avec le chicory

Build a wood frame to match the top of the tub. Use cedar and stainless fasteners. Staple screen to the top of the frame. Probably, less than $50 worth of materials.

Unless we are soaking in the hot tub, our cover is on it, and secure. A cover helps keep the chemical balence good for a longer period as well, and keeps debris/animals out.

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They love to be near water!
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Get snakes, they eat frogs.

I wonder if they react to rubber snakes the same way rodents do?

We have Bufo toads here, I am constantly catching and killing them.

I have a mutt that loves to chase lizards and would not hesitate to chase a toad.

It is a never ending battle to patrol the yard and eradicate them.

That coffee article is of much interest to me.

You guys are approaching this all the wrong way.

Build the frogs their own hot tub. That way they'll have theirs and you'll have yours.

Win-win!

We put in a koi pond one spring. It was just hours old, and we had no fish yet as we wanted it to season and grow some alga before introducing fish. Withing a few hours it was a toad orgy in our pond. We had a TON of tadpoles. The alga has just started to cover the rock on the bottom of the pond and the tadpoles cleaned the rocks completely. We had zillions of little baby toads. We would go out every evening and scoop up 50 or 60 and put them in a bucket. I would drive them a mile south to a natural creek and sing Born Free. My singing was enough to scare them down to the creek. We did that for 10 days or so. We still had numerous toads that escaped us which is OK.

We introduced fish and they got to work in the pond. Now every year the toads start singing in the spring, have a big orgy. and we get tadpoles. but the fish take care of the excess population. Only the fittest survive and we have just a few baby toads hopping around for a while before they vanish to find their personal territory.

Our male dachshund pokes them with his nose every spring and then starts frothing at the mouth. I think he is addicted to the frog's defense drug. He quits after a few episodes of frothy mouth. He must get a bad hangover or something.

Let the Israelites go?

Now that's funny right there!

The logical move would be to put a cover on it.
Just saying .....

Agree, there must be a way to design a cover that works with the corner wedge.

I built a water feature with small rock water fall (2' high) that holds 50 gallons of water. The frogs prefer it to our pool & spa, at most I find 1 or 2 in the pool any given year.

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

You need a princess....

Turn up the hot tub.

Frog legs are delicious!

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.

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....



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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.

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.

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.

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 :D

this thread is awesome

Do you have a ribbit gun?

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 ;-(

Predator?

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

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

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!

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

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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.

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.