Frogs ..

[littleHeidi]

Last year we had frogs the size of dinner plates in our pool every day!! Not just one or two but half a dozen at a time!! They were the most hideous shade of neon green you have ever seen!! We called them mutants. My husband had to make me "wand" long enough to pull the skimmer box cover off so I wouldn't have to get to close to it. I opened it last year and one those **** things was in the skimmer and I thought I'd pee in my pants!!! Like you, there is a giant pond at my next door neighbors' house but for some reason the idiots would rather come up here to the chlorine.

[aylad]

I have an 1100 gallon koi pond 4 feet from the ladder my frogs use to get out of my pool....but they prefer the pool and won't get into the pond. I gave up and just was happy with the fact that I don't have a bug/mosquito problem in the back yard.........

Janet

[MarkC]

Leave a small foam pool float like a flat kick board in the pool. The frogs will climb up on that and when its near the edge of the pool they can jump out. I rarely find them in the skimmer now that I do that.

[kaybinster]

I get these every year when I first open the pool. I think some are actually in the pool from the winter. It is strange too, as someone else has, I have a stream about 50' from my pool yet the frogs are in the pool. What I find even stranger is they seem to thrive in the skimmers. I think the attraction is the skimmers usually have bugs in them so there is lots of food from the frogs. I always thought frogs were very sensitive to chemicals and died very easily which is why environmentalists are so concerned about them. But when I shock the pool the frogs could care less. Usually they leave after a few weeks.

The critter that really surprises me is the few crayfish we get every once in a while. Guess they walk their way there from the stream.

[fofa]

Last year we had frogs the size of dinner plates in our pool every day!! Not just one or two but half a dozen at a time!!

Really? Just a couple days and you had a meal!

[littleHeidi]

Heh Heh !!

[cgc2]

Maybe a couple of Gopher Snakes ?
Or are they strickly Gopher eaters ?

Have the same problem...sucks, especially since if you go on vacation and they make it to the skimmer...gross smell and anything else you can think of.

[KesLongwood]

I live in Acworth GA. I have a 33" Round with a deck around it fully, and a 7ft fence all around with latace on the top 2 feet, and full plank boards on the bottom 5 feet, and yet some how THE FREAKIN BUGGERS GET IN MY POOL!!! Not one, not 2, not 6, DOZENS. The most I have counted at once (I.E. Thrown over the fence) was 23. Little gray frogay about the size of a SoBe Cap, or a Med Bottle Cap from Kroger or Walgreens. They are driving me nutz. Even right now, they won't shut THE HELL UP!!! And we're no where near any major streams or lakes. Lot of Pools in the Subdivison, and 2 Storm Drain Lakes at the entrance of the subdivison which is about .7 miles away. I swear, if someone figures out away to repell frogs, they'd make a fortune if they market it.

[aylad]

King snakes!!!

[KesLongwood]

Well, I just found out some really crappy news. It appears that tree frogs are a natural repelent for mosquitoes. BAH!!! So now it seems that if ya get rid of the little buggers, then even small, more annoying little buggers will come... I swear, I'm just gonne have the entire 500 SQFT area screened in all around. LoL