frogs

I installed my pond last summer/fall and I didn't have any frogs last year
whatsoever. This year I have taken at least a dozen frogs out of there and
I keep getting more in there. I noticed some eggs on one of the plants and
I took the plant out and cleaned it before returning it to the pond a few
days later. Is there anything that I can do to make them leave and not come
back. I have woods and a stream around me and I can hear the frogs out
there always. I just don't want them in my pond.

Thanks,
Tony

Hi Tony!

Is there anything that I can do to make them (frogs) leave and not come
back.

Not really. You have provided them with food, cover and reproduction
opportunities. A frog single's club ;-)
Frogs will return to their home pond if they can. So the more spawn you remove
the less likely they will be to come back.
Remove any frog spawn and transfer it to a nearby natural body of water.
Predators will take care of frogs but many of them will eat fish also.
You can try netting the pond but they will still come, hang around and do their
courting. They just don't have much common sense, frogs. But that might keep
the spawn out of the pond and you won't have returning babies the next year.
And you can catch as many frogs as you can and escort them off to the nearby
natural body of water. Spotlight them at night.
Someday I suspect that messing with frogs' reproduction will come under some
sort of protection. It's only a matter of time.

Good luck!



kathy :-)
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"Tony McCabe" tmccabe@hawkeyerec wrote in message
...
I installed my pond last summer/fall and I didn't have any frogs last year
whatsoever. This year I have taken at least a dozen frogs out of there
and
I keep getting more in there. I noticed some eggs on one of the plants
and
I took the plant out and cleaned it before returning it to the pond a few
days later. Is there anything that I can do to make them leave and not
come
back. I have woods and a stream around me and I can hear the frogs out
there always. I just don't want them in my pond.

A shovel and some dirt is the only solution. Fill the pond in and the frogs
will go away.

BV.

Tony,

Perhaps you should rethink your goals for a pond, if you don't want wildlife
in it.

In the meantime, DO NOT POST pictures to this or any other newsgroup,
please!!!! If you will look closely at other posts here, people post
*links* to websites where photos can be viewed.

Anne Lurie
Raleigh, NC


"Tony McCabe" tmccabe@hawkeyerec wrote in message
...
I installed my pond last summer/fall and I didn't have any frogs last year
whatsoever. This year I have taken at least a dozen frogs out of there
and
I keep getting more in there. I noticed some eggs on one of the plants
and
I took the plant out and cleaned it before returning it to the pond a few
days later. Is there anything that I can do to make them leave and not
come
back. I have woods and a stream around me and I can hear the frogs out
there always. I just don't want them in my pond.

Thanks,
Tony