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pixi April 27th 04 01:15 PM

Frogs in Skimmer
 
Have I become personna non grata? I asked how to keep frogs out of the
skimmer several days ago and havne't seen a word. Please give me a clue.





Mike Patterson April 27th 04 02:03 PM

Frogs in Skimmer
 
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:15:31 -0400, "pixi" wrote:

Have I become personna non grata? I asked how to keep frogs out of the
skimmer several days ago and havne't seen a word. Please give me a clue.




I personally don't have a skimmer, but maybe you could put a screen or
net material over the intake?

I usually don't respond to questions if I feel I can't help. Maybe no
one who read your post could. Or maybe your post was lost before it
got to the "right" person who -could- help.

I don't think any questions here are actually "ignored" just to annoy
the poster.


Mike Patterson
Please remove the spamtrap to email me.

Mike Patterson April 27th 04 02:03 PM

Frogs in Skimmer
 
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 08:15:31 -0400, "pixi" wrote:

Have I become personna non grata? I asked how to keep frogs out of the
skimmer several days ago and havne't seen a word. Please give me a clue.




I personally don't have a skimmer, but maybe you could put a screen or
net material over the intake?

I usually don't respond to questions if I feel I can't help. Maybe no
one who read your post could. Or maybe your post was lost before it
got to the "right" person who -could- help.

I don't think any questions here are actually "ignored" just to annoy
the poster.


Mike Patterson
Please remove the spamtrap to email me.

Benign Vanilla April 27th 04 02:07 PM

Frogs in Skimmer
 

"pixi" wrote in message
...
Have I become personna non grata? I asked how to keep frogs out of the
skimmer several days ago and havne't seen a word. Please give me a clue.


Pixi...often lack of responses if a result of a lack of answers. I don't
have a skimmer, so I can't speak from experience, but it seems to me, that
there really is no way to keep frogs out of the skimmer. The skimmer is
design to let stuff in, and not let it out. What you may want to work on is
creating an escape route out the top of the skimmer box for the frogs.

--
BV.
www.iheartmypond.com




Benign Vanilla April 27th 04 02:07 PM

Frogs in Skimmer
 

"pixi" wrote in message
...
Have I become personna non grata? I asked how to keep frogs out of the
skimmer several days ago and havne't seen a word. Please give me a clue.


Pixi...often lack of responses if a result of a lack of answers. I don't
have a skimmer, so I can't speak from experience, but it seems to me, that
there really is no way to keep frogs out of the skimmer. The skimmer is
design to let stuff in, and not let it out. What you may want to work on is
creating an escape route out the top of the skimmer box for the frogs.

--
BV.
www.iheartmypond.com




Lee B. April 27th 04 04:30 PM

Frogs in Skimmer
 
I'm sorry - I didn't see the post. As BV said, skimmers are designed to let
things in . . . Because I didn't see your post, I don't know if your skimmer
is the same as mine, i.e., I have a frame with a net that fits snuggly
inside. It catches the leaves and things - including frogs. I just turn them
loose when I clean the net. If you don't have one of those, perhaps you
could get some of the big mesh bird netting and rubber band a piece of it
around the entry way to your skimmer. This would still allow "most" stuff to
enter, but would keep the froggies out. Frogs are determined: I had to
jerry-rig something to keep them from getting sucked into my pump intake:
they were wreaking havoc with my check valves!

Lee

"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
...

"pixi" wrote in message
...
Have I become personna non grata? I asked how to keep frogs out of the
skimmer several days ago and havne't seen a word. Please give me a

clue.

Pixi...often lack of responses if a result of a lack of answers. I don't
have a skimmer, so I can't speak from experience, but it seems to me, that
there really is no way to keep frogs out of the skimmer. The skimmer is
design to let stuff in, and not let it out. What you may want to work on

is
creating an escape route out the top of the skimmer box for the frogs.

--
BV.
www.iheartmypond.com






Lee B. April 27th 04 04:30 PM

Frogs in Skimmer
 
I'm sorry - I didn't see the post. As BV said, skimmers are designed to let
things in . . . Because I didn't see your post, I don't know if your skimmer
is the same as mine, i.e., I have a frame with a net that fits snuggly
inside. It catches the leaves and things - including frogs. I just turn them
loose when I clean the net. If you don't have one of those, perhaps you
could get some of the big mesh bird netting and rubber band a piece of it
around the entry way to your skimmer. This would still allow "most" stuff to
enter, but would keep the froggies out. Frogs are determined: I had to
jerry-rig something to keep them from getting sucked into my pump intake:
they were wreaking havoc with my check valves!

Lee

"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
...

"pixi" wrote in message
...
Have I become personna non grata? I asked how to keep frogs out of the
skimmer several days ago and havne't seen a word. Please give me a

clue.

Pixi...often lack of responses if a result of a lack of answers. I don't
have a skimmer, so I can't speak from experience, but it seems to me, that
there really is no way to keep frogs out of the skimmer. The skimmer is
design to let stuff in, and not let it out. What you may want to work on

is
creating an escape route out the top of the skimmer box for the frogs.

--
BV.
www.iheartmypond.com






Ka30P April 27th 04 04:53 PM

Frogs in Skimmer
 

I haven't ever been able to figure out how to discourage frogs from doing
anything they want to do. I think that is why Mother Nature makes so many of
them, to replace the clueless among them.


kathy :-)
A HREF="http://www.onceuponapond.com/"Once upon a pond/A

Ka30P April 27th 04 04:53 PM

Frogs in Skimmer
 

I haven't ever been able to figure out how to discourage frogs from doing
anything they want to do. I think that is why Mother Nature makes so many of
them, to replace the clueless among them.


kathy :-)
A HREF="http://www.onceuponapond.com/"Once upon a pond/A

GrannyGrump April 27th 04 05:33 PM

Frogs in Skimmer
 


Have I become personna non grata? I asked how to keep frogs out of the
skimmer several days ago and havne't seen a word. Please give me a clue.


Maybe no one has an immediate answer...?



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