Get rid of the fish, and you will have a beautiful frog pondCan anybody give me some advice how to get rid of frogs at a fish pond?
Seems nature fanatics scout online frog questions to respond with ridiculous answers. Just to make people feel bad.
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Homeowners spend thousands of $ building and maintaining their pools; they have a right to swim in their own disease-free pool. Frogs are not endangered, especially when a single one can lay 10,000 eggs!
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Keep pool water PH balanced, 7.2 to 7.4 %26amp; frogs will stay away. Always shock pool with liquid chlorine after rain. Frogs habituate to higher chlorine so important thing is PH balance.
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For floating spawn, skim and dump in a plastic grocery bag and dump in garbage. Vacuum to get spawn that sunk to the pool floor. Let the filter %26amp; chlorine do the rest, as long as there's a PH balance.
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Hi Cheri, I can understand your problem only too well. When still on the farm, we had a big dam and it was full of platannas. When the dam became too dry in summer, they just hopped up the hill and made themselves comfortable in our swimming pool. I actually think that this all was happening long before we moved onto the farm.
The problem with frogs is, that they always come back to mate and lay their eggs where they were born themselves. So, if your frogs were born in the fish pond, then they are going to come back every year to continue their cycle.
We used to have frog catching competitions, the children and their friends enjoyed it. Then we would clear all their muck out of the pool, pump in fresh water and add chlorine. It was a matter of 2 or 3 days and the frogs were back. Within a few weeks the pool water was black with all their excretions.
And, we did not set the frogs free in OUR dam. No, we used to take them with when we took the children to school in Gordon麓s Bay and empty our buckets in another farmers dam, at least 3 km away. I am convinced that the bliksems found their way back ';home'; again.
In the end we gave up, and planted water lilies, waterblommetjies and grasses and the dogs used it as their swimming pool. The children did not like to swim there with the frogs.
Here in Germany, when one has frogs in the pond, then one is not allowed to remove them again. They are protected. So, I advise you check with the authorities, before you have some neighbour suing you for cruelty to animals.
Your only resort will be to get some fish that eat frogs or the frogs麓 eggs, like bass or trout. Maybe Vango has more info on other predators
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Phone the French Consul General. They will come and eat them.
we'll i was going to say get poison but since you don't want to kill them. I dont really think you can make them stop croaking because thats what frogs do but maybe you can take something they really like and set it up somewhere far away from the pond and i dont kno maybe they will run after it or something
That's easy get a Frenchman to move in and he can create the most appetizing delights like Ella fried foggie legs or la frog Casserole and for desert you could have le chilled frog-lets and ice creme.Jokes aside there is nothing you can do, as croaking frogs are as natural as the blue skies above you,just grin and bear it and please don't kill them or worse to actually eat them.
Ag man leave them alone! They won't harm the fish and they eat a lot of unpleasant goggas. The only thing, and I don't know where you are in SA, but frogs may bring snakes- especially a Green Mamba or a rinkhals- both fond of frogs! You could hire some French people to come and braai their legs as well.
One suggestion would be to buy some kind of garden sculpture resembling a crane, it might scare them off..... Personally I miss the frogs and crickets at night, and the fireflies....
I for one love them ! Living on the farm in today's time of farm attacks it is the one thing attackers can't do about and simply forget about and that is frogs ! They tend to go silent if something moves close by ! For us it's a early warning signal !
You created a habitat..and they came. You can't pick and choose what comes to live in your pond. Be thankful you have a sound of nature ( croaking ). You could be lving in a big city with all kinds of irritating noises. Give the little guys a break..they aren't hurting you and they are part of the big scheme of things on this earth. Plus they are keeping down your bug population.
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