How do you keep toads out of a hot tub?

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Toads make their way under the cover. There has been over 40 this season in my tub. Wondering if there is something i could spay on the ground or add to the water to turn them off.
We do have a cover but some how they manage to get up under it..



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  1. LMM says:
    July 21, 2009 at 5:53 am

    there is a spray for it you can find it at wallmart and lows or you could buy a cover and put it over the hot tub every night

  2. K F says:
    July 21, 2009 at 5:53 am

    huge ol’ toads used to congregate in our pool. I got to feeling like I was maintaining the pool solely for their enjoyment (and the birds’ bathroom). What really helped was trimming all the underbrush and removing rocks and hiding places in the landscape. This also helps keep leaves and bark out of the pool, an added benefit. I try to keep the trees and bushes clipped several feet from the ground, and where we used to have shrubby plants I put crushed brick (fake lava rock) and concrete stepping stones. Occasionally we’ll still have a little "friend" out there, and I just scoop it out with the net and a rake (to keep him from jumping at me) and place him in the trash. I know it sounds horrible, but if you don’t kill them, they multiply like rabbits.

    The only way to keep them out would be to build a physical barrier that they are unable to jump over, or through. Something like a tightly latticed wooden fence or a chain-link fence with wrapped links might be fairly effective and relatively inexpensive, but I don’t know that anything would be 100%

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