How do you get rid of frogs in a pond?

Answer 1

By violent means - which have equally "violent ends"* - the gardener or cultivator may get rid of frogs (order Anura) within the garden.

The frogs may be rendered hungry by removing their mosquito and slug food sources. Just remove as much moisture as possible. Stop supplemental watering. Break down all water features, Swimming Pools and natural water bodies.

Render the frogs homeless by removing their preferred habitats. Specifically, increase the amount of impervious surface, against all possibility of underground burrows. So link the indoors with such "outdoor rooms" as patios, gazebos, gardens and decks. Build such gardening structures as potting sheds and greenhouses. Add paved footpaths and enlarged driveways.

Render them helpless by resorting to chemical controls of garden problems. Frogs easily may secrete defensive toxins. They just as easily may absorb environmental toxins, such as pesticides. Specifically, they tend to be as sensitive as such other beneficials as bees.

Render them frightened by killing all their eggs or by installing whatever traps or controls are recommended against nuisance populations.

The choice of any one of the above means may be understandable within the context of having to fill up frog holes or risk ankle injury by walking through them. But the holes serve a purpose. They actually are access points for the frogs to overwinter underground or between the roots of trees. In other words, the frogs are just doing what they can to survive.

So if none of the above appeals to the gardener or cultivator bent on control, there is another more environmentally-friendly possibility. This approach is based on what those frog holes do for the soil. Specifically, compacted soils that prevent adequate movement of air and moisture are side-effects of the development that allows civilization and its contents (and discontents). Frog holes create air and moisture spaces for the soil and its soil food web of plant roots and underground critter.

So another option is respecting the good that frogs and their holes do and just patiently filling in each hole with your favorite plant.

*William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet," II:6:9-11.

Answer 2

You can prevent frogs from reproducing by introducing carnivorous insects (waterbeetles) are large fish. They will get rid of all the larva. The only way to lose the adults is either killing them or remove them and let them go at least a couple of miles away. If you release them in the neighbourhood they will return.

Killing toads & frogs is illegal in most countries, and since in general frogs are declining it is not a good idea.

Answer 3

Why would you want to get rid of them? They were there before you were. Be grateful that you have them. They are there for a purpose, so rather study them to find out what that might be. They are probably very important to the local ecology.

Answer 4

If you have a pool, the only way to get rid of frogs is to hunt them down. It is easier if they jump into the pool to escape. You simply need a pool net to trap them.

I first tried chasing them away; then I tried spraying bleach around the pool. But none of that really worked. These frogs are pretty, small, bright green with red eyes. But they are LOUD. I can hear them even through my ear plugs at night. I finally got rid of all three of them last night and was able to sleep without my ear plugs. So, the sad answer is "Once they settled in your backyard, the only way to get rid of them is to trap them and dispose them."

Answer 5

Frogs are essential to the environment. Leave them be, please!
You kill frogs by getting some salt,get a wooden stick and go outside. You pour salt on the frog to see go crazy Then you get a wooden stick and hit the frog many times. I know this because my dad did it today to a frog. My dog was scared.

Answer 6

Check the phosphate levels of your water. I had a pool party of frogs every time it rained. I found my phosphate level was high, adjusted accordingly and now they're gone!

Answer 7

Chicken or Bull Snakes

Answer 8

Shotgun