Key points that I forgot when I uploaded this video - this type of hotel will only suit TREE FROGS (ie. the ones that have the sticky feet and cling to walls, etc.), unfortunately ground frogs and toads will have to make use of another design of hotel which is closer to the ground. I have no issues with mosquitoes, and I can't really say why. The design of these hotels was based around simplicity only. I appreciate everyone's feedback about design upgrades, etc. but it will mean making a totally different type of hotel, while still navigating around the potential risks/hazards (predators and the like) that this one cleverly avoids. Thanks so much for watching, and for helping me grow this channel above 1500 subs! 🐸
Does anyone know what the long-term effects are of PVC on frogs? I know the PVC isn't exactly healthy for human exposure? Could it maybe be substituted for bamboo? Probably would look a little more natural as well.
@@DFMurray Bamboo might fuck with their biology more than many things, since it has antibacterial properties and frogs drink through osmosis via their skin, though this might only be an issue in the sap of fresh stuff. Either way, caution is warranted.
@@lgjm5562 rather difficult.. firstly, frogs will never sound like wind chimes (duh), and second they'll never harmonise. they'll always be competing with each other for the top voice to attract the females. but females are attracted to different tones, so some will go for the 'tenor' and others go for the 'bass'. they're not interested in becoming a choir, and at best they sound like a woodsaw going through hardwood or a very old and rusty set of bedsprings. 😆🐸
Very cool! Remember people, these are a certain type of Frog with sticky feet for climbing. Not every Frog can do this and if they go in they won't be able to get back out and will die. Same with other small animals. So this isn't a make and leave it thing, you have to be on top of this to make sure you don't accidentally kill another type of frog or animal.
well put, and to be clear, there are other types of frog house/enclosure for non-tree frogs (the ones with claws instead of suckery pads) which are best suited at ground-level so they can get in and out. and even though this is for a certain type of frog, all habitats require maintenance, just like a terrarium, vivarium or aquarium. you also need to be aware that frogs will grow in size, and they don't care about who goes in which pipe and how many are in there. so as I've learned, make your pipes a little bigger than you think you'll need. your frogs will thank you for it. 🐸
I was literally thinking to myself, "so can I build one and put it out and frogs will be drawn to it or is it only a certain kind of frog?". Remembered he said there was very little info on the internet about frog hotels so I thought lets have a quick look at the comment section and here you are confirming for me what I already suspected! We dont have climbing frogs in Spain so I will have to pass sadly.
I kept some frogs as pets for a couple of years and I’m sure my dad would’ve loved to join in on the project. It’s those memories you carry forward in your life that makes a difference and a great learning opportunity for both, not only into family relationships but also wildlife, vegetation and ecosystem preservation. If you’re feeling brave and the frog hotel goes well maybe a little pond as the next project? You might get to see plenty of birds, insects and give a place for tadpoles to start their journey straight after the hotel, but maybe at that point you can call it a frog brothel ;)
@@LoyalZen0x I like your thinking, however I did entertain this notion for a while and realised that it wouldn't work as well as others would suggest, because I'm in a rural area and my back yard is a low-lying paddock that often floods. that said, my next project for these guys in the coming months will be to do some 'upgrades' for them (these hotels will largely stay the same), but my other one will be getting a revamp. stay tuned and thanks for watching.
@@LoyalZen0x we have a gold fish pond with 6-7” long gold fish. One of the frogs my son caught is a bull frog so we let it go in the hotel next to the pond. We see him every day and he even eats the gold fish food lol
I live in Florida and I have a tree frog living in the corner piece of the siding at the back patio of my townhouse. I'm totally going to build one of these and put it on my patio. I also have a toad living in a burrow under my AC unit - I just saw him peeking out this morning - tons of Brown Anole lizards and a few Green Anoles as well, and a Black Racer snake living in the garden. Then there are the squirrels, birds, armadillos, opossums, and I even saw a Gray Fox once. I can take a nature walk in my backyard!
awesome stuff, sounds like you have quite the menagerie! these hotels will suit tree frogs only, and if you see any other type of frog in there, rescue it first and then wonder how the hell it got in there 😆 thanks for watching 🐸
@@deadenders16 I'm getting some better plants to upgrade the larger frog hotel I have (seen in other videos in this series) so they can hang out on their leaves and such. thanks for watching 🐸
Hey, I also live in Florida and this looks like a cute idea but remember that we have snakes here and that wasps and mud dauber really like empty tubes to build nests in. If you decide to make this, I wouldn't put in near a porch or entrance, just in case. Also, you can add one of those little solar powered yard lights to it, that way you don't have to put it near a place w/power & the light will still be there to attract insects for the frogs to eat.
@@mommy2libras regarding the solar lights, I'd suggest something more up-market than your standard garden path lights. something with higher wattage that will last more than a year. I got sick of having to throw out garden LED lights because the sun we get is enough to severely degrade the solar collectors on the lights, to the point that they no longer function.
@@cinnamongmc5430 depends where you are, really. you can't make blanket statements like that and be 100% sure that it will happen for everyone, 100% of the time. ask me how I know.
There are tree frogs (several species) throughout the U.S. especially the South. We also have anoles and Mediterranian geckos (my garage is full of those). But I am DEFINITELY jealous that Australians have White's tree frogs everywhere. -They are hands-down the most 'chill' amphibians of all, great pets.
@@audreymuzingo933 I had to look that name up, they're not known by White's over here, just Green Tree Frog (or GTF). apparently there was an attempt to have them migrate to the US and NZ, but somehow it failed. but yes, these have so much chill that they'd be right at home in a fridge (not literally). thanks for watching 🐸
@@audreymuzingo933 I get the house geckos and the western banded gecko, and when it rains Sonoran desert toads, but nothing I could make a hotel for that is regularly used
Now I want a frog hotel to attract frogs and I do not even live near water....LOL I've let part of my yard grow completely wild for lightening bugs, bees, butterflies, etc I have random large trays of plain/sugar water all over the yard (experiencing extreme heat, currently) I have a cat door in my garage for all the feral cats in my neighborhood, opossums & raccoons, as well ( I've been surprised by several different critters enjoying the temp controlled feeding & bedding area in my garage)...I can only imagine what my sons will have to say about coming over and seeing that I am now trying to attract frogs!!! This is great, I'm glad I came across this! Thank you!
the toad is a deporable and invasive (not to mention poisonous) pest. they did their job of ridding the cane beetle (mostly) of its existence, now they've become the pest they were brought here to eradicate. this is one toad species (non-native btw, we don't get native toads in Australia) that you don't want in your back yard. thanks for watching. 🐸
My Pacific Northwest toad is fun and not a problem. My guess is that the ones who rarely secrete poison are those who’ve recently eaten poisonous reptile species.
@@maremuse take a look at the Cane Toad _rubella marina_ and check out the parotoid glands (poison sacks) at the top of their front arms. also, these breed in plague proportions.
When I was in the Navy and stationed at NS Mayport Florida, right after you gave your orders at the drive thru of any fast food joint, you turned the corner and.... were met by a wall of tree frogs stuck to the wall getting their very own fast food fix. My apartment wasn't to far away and .... the best home entertainment system when the power was down was a candle near the sliding glass door. Tree Frogs love glass, and Tree Frogs DO fight! Loser is usually dinner.
we don't get any native toads here, but Australia seems to be fighting an endless battle with the poisonous and non-native cane toad. thanks for watching 🐸
our "White's" (Green Tree Frogs as they're known locally) span about half the country. the cockatoos you soon get over as their endless screeching jangles the nerves, and only some places have budgerigars flying wild. where I live it's more koalas and wallabies, but the rainbow lorikeets are a lot more fun to watch - they're small, colorful and all attitude! I've made some videos about them on my bird feeder, which is also documented on this channel. thanks for watching 🐸
It's a trade off though, i'm okay without the dinner plate sized spiders under everything. Nothing like seeing a face hugger run across your buddies wall in a zoom call.
@@BouncingTribbles awww... what, you don't like Huntsman spiders? they're far more scared of us than us humans are of them for their size. they take no notice of us, and sit quietly in a corner waiting to eat the small insects. I've had a few sitting in a garage and I ignore them, and just sweep up the insect carcasses after the spider has left them in a nice pile for me.
I used to have the occasional toad around my place but I haven't seen one for years. Too many neighbors around me get their yards treated with chemicals. 😢
@@bahba9247I agree. Have often had conversations about how people miss the wildlife ( frogs, birds, etc.) I always ask if they or neighbors get their lawns treated?= Bingo.😥 They kill most Everybody and Everything, indiscriminately. Hate to put folk out of business but if I was queen? I'd Ban them. Is very hard for me to pass them on the road and not Flip them Off. But people support them...🥴🙄🤪
Hello from the States! Where ever I've lived, we've always had some form of frog or toad house, though not these cute pipe houses! A while ago we had one that was just a cut chunk of a tree branch that was rotting from the inside outward (the whole tree was, really), and the frogs would squish in down the hollowed out middle. They surprised us when they finally moved in! We were keeping potted plants on top and my mother lifted the pot to move it and a whole parade of them came out after their roof disappeared! 😂 We tried not to disturb them after that. I love this setup, though. I think we're gonna have to try it since that branch slice is long rotted away. Good luck in the fight to keep your dumpies safe from those canes! 🐸
they love to be in trees, hence why they're 'tree frogs' 😆 but we have no trees big enough for them to call home just yet, and the closest ones are about a football field away. thanks for watching! 🐸
Depending on where you live, be careful if you get frogs that can get stuck in the pipes (cause they will hop in either way.) Just make sure to check inside them frequently, just in case.
I love how to added plenty of care information on how to maintain your luxury frog hotel. Also, the importance of gloves or clean wet hands when you handle them. Wonderful video from start to finish!
A tip for those in the US, I’d personally go for a smaller diameter as we don’t have any tree frogs quite as large as Australia’s wonderful dumpy tree frogs, maybe even a bunch of different diameters would be best, who knows!
best thing to do is experiment, and when they do get used, note which ones are most popuolated. you'll need to go a size bigger (eventually) to allow for frog growth and population explosion. 🐸
I am from a lowland, swampy area and was raised around all sorts of frogs. After moving to the mountains, I noticed the absence of some animal people, including the frogs. In 30 years, I've seen perhaps three frogs. Lately, there's been a tree frog serenading outside my kitchen window and it was like seeing an old friend when I found him/her! I've been considering ways to keep the frogs around and now I'm so grateful to you for sharing your brilliant idea, Big Fella!
great story. if you were serenaded by a frog, then it was a male, as females don't croak. I'm doing this for a similar reason, because frog populations are in decline around here, as are their habitats. I found these guys inside the house when I moved in, and saw the novel idea of a frog hotel at a plant nursery not long after, and thought I could do the same thing. so I've since moved the frogs back outside and most of them are rather happy with their accommodations... and being a frog, who wouldn't be. thanks for watching, and you're welcome! 🐸
@@bigfellavideography I respect you for helping the frogs survive, with the intention of flourishing, Big Fella. I'm honored that he was serenading me outside my kitchen window. I've a bird bath below and flood light above, so hopefully he is content for now, until I make a frog hotel per your instructions. I expect there's enough insects there for him to feed on, but in an effort to keep him healthy and happy, I've supplemented his diet with mealworms. He seems to have eaten some. You're certainly a Dedicated Inventor of Luxury Froghomes.
@@BearClanMan1970 haha thanks. frogs will hook into mealworms pretty well. regarding the frog hotel design, I'd encourage you to make something unique, and not a duplicate of what I've shown here (others have done this). if you don't get cane toads where you are then you'll likely not need elevation or even a bucket to put the hotels in, and the frogs can be enjoyed at ground level. 😃
I have a big round cattle trough that gets taken over by leopard frogs and thier loud singing vibrates the whole tank ! It's loud & is amplified like crazy it kinda sounds techno.😂🎉 I love frogs & toads and I enjoy seeing thier "frog parties" at night. Sometimes I DO have to save toads that can't get back out. I do check every morning
These are awesome. I moved to Australia after my 20th birthday from NZ. Flew in to Brisbane & we made our way to cairns by car taking our time to enjoy the journey. We made friends with an Aussie guy at our local RSA in NZ before we flew out, he told us about everything to be cautious about, we would listen to him for hours… he told us if we’re camping by water and hear barking to pick up our tent and move inland because it’s not dogs we’d hear it’s crocs, and cane toads are poisonous, they have poison glands on their backs. In NZ we would stop at rivers and have a swim, too scared to do that here with snakes crocs and god knows what else. Stopped at one caravan park after full day travelling. It was on dusk I wanted a shower. Our cabins had no amenities you had to use the communal shower block. So in I walk to shower, cautiously checking for snakes, spiders and anything that would give me a heart attack. My family stayed in the cabins drinking. When I finished my shower the night lights all came on, i got dried, dressed I went to exit and the whole wall of the exit was lined with frogs everywhere by the outside light, beetles and insects were attracted and buzzing around hitting everything like they were drunk. They all were enormous compared to NZ bugs. I had no idea whether the frogs were cane toads which I was told were poisonous. I’d never seen one. I had no idea how they delivered their poison, but my mind somehow got the better of me and I had come to conclusion in my imprisonment within that shower block they must send out darts from their backs perhaps. Well that was it. I was too scared to go through the door so there I was, in the men’s shower alone and trapped. I tried calling out for help but no one came. I went through 4 rolls of toilet paper making wet bombs to throw at the frogs aiming for the ledge so that I could get out but the frogs kept dodging my barrage of warfare. I was stuck there for over an hour and not one of my family members bothered to come check if I was okay. Ran out of toilet paper. In a last ditch effort of survival I draped my towel over me and ran through the door past all the frogs screaming like I was on fire. I hit the roof when I made it back to the cabin because no one came to help me. Still shaking I told them what happened. The buggers just burst out laughing. Next day I found out they were just green tree frogs, completely harmless. That bloody Aussie guy back in NZ warning us about stuff to scare us! The mess the cleaners would have had to clean up at the Ken’s toilet block entrance would have been a bugger. That was 30yrs ago. Australia has been home & a great country to us but I’ll always remember that night like yesterday. Thank you for sharing your frogs hotel. They’re cute seeing them living in them.
🤣🤣🤣 Fantastic story buddha, I love hearing fables like that, and locals hyping up the wildlife to anyone curious enough to pay attention to it all. Well, the easiest way to know for sure is the colouring - they're a mottled brown colour and have parotoid glands on their shoulders which secretes poison, but can't really shoot it out! 😂 cane toads can't jump very high, and they can't cling to walls/pipes, etc. because they have claws instead of suckery pads like tree frogs do. the green tree frogs are the most numerous and they'll go crazy for a feed when the bugs get attracted to the lights. these (and the water of course) are all the elements the frogs look for when making a sanctuary, so the pipes are safe enough for them, the water is there so they can hydrate, and the lights above the pipes to attract a meal. they couldn't have it any better. 🐸
@@bigfellavideography yip know that now after 30yrs. Nothing phases me now but my first few years here were freaking me out so I frequented nightclubs which you do when you’re 20. 50 now, braver wiser. Seeing those frogs black eyes made that memory flood back instantly. Glad you had a chuckle! Cheers mate 🙌😊
Wow. And a light to attract insects! That is posh. Interesting that they like the 90 degree corners less. We've got small green tree frogs that like to hide in closed patio umbrellas. I wonder if green anoles lizards would like this.
the light has been upgraded, something brighter and more directional to get more bugs in. not sure what it was with the 90° bends but my frogs just didn't ever venture into those pipes. the frogs might like to 'hide' on the leaves of bromeliads, something I'm considering doing for my next hotel iteration/upgrade. it'll depend on how much space I have to work with. thanks for watching. 🐸
It could be that it’s harder for them to get inside maybe? Idk much about them. I’d think their feet could stick but the angle may just be a hassle to get inside quickly.
Great work. Glad you brought up handling them with wet mitts. Probably good to mention also that you shouldn't use detergents or chemicals to "clean out" their pipes. I don't think I'd want them croaking from inside an echo chamber right outside my bedroom window though!
yes, a good point - I only ever clean out the pipe with a pipe cleaning brush and a sponge attached to it. they don't like human cleanliness as much as we do. this is a point I'll be making in the follow-up video, it has some subtle upgrades.
Cute!!! These frogs are massive. For other viewers on the eastern US, we don't really get roaming frogs this big. The biggest frogs comfortable not napping in water are our tree frogs which might make use of these hotels, but are much smaller than what you find in Australia. The biggest non-pond amphibians are probably our toads which might use these, but cant climb and probably prefer hiding in dirt to being high.
in Australia we have no native toads, only cane toads that were introduced, which poison everything that tries to eat them. green tree frogs are a decent size, but our comparable size to your frogs would be something like a robust bleating tree frog or a dainty tree frog. both are rather cute. thanks for watching 🐸
@@Jennifer-nz2ss I'm doing a redesign on another larger hotel which has 90mm pipes. I'm looking for some creative feedback on that so I may drop in a post in the Community tab on my page soon. stay tuned, thanks for watching 🐸
No, but those toads will totally take over your potted plants. I was transplanting something this spring to a bigger pot and at the bottom there was a toad bigger than my hand- almost the size of the pot. Scared the heck out of both of us when I reached down with my hand, thinking it was a root ball. Jumped and scattered dirt everywhere. And I dropped both pot and plant.
@@mommy2libras Oh goodness, hope both the plant and pot were okay! I just heard a story from someone at work about a toad so big it was tearing up their front planters
This is fantastic! I have quite a large population of beautiful green tree frogs living in the rusted-out posts of my front stairs which I need to fix. I'll definitely build some of these frog hotels for my frogs to relocate to. Thank you so much for doing this great informative video!
thank you so much, and thanks for watching 🐸 speaking of goofs, I gotta download and edit my livestream I did earlier today, so it's at least presentable, unless you like craning your head 90°. 😆
I love tree frogs, I've had green, grey and dumpy tree frogs in vivariums as pets. This is such a cool project cuz it lets them be outside in their natural environment but provides them shelter and food. Where I live there's plenty of green and gray wild frogs so this is perfect. I really would like to see some plants in it though, not only for aesthetics but it would provide the frogs with more camouflage so I'm definitely going to add some water plants. Thanks for the idea! This definitely needs to be a thing everywhere!
thanks for the comment. I tried to give them the best of all worlds and not detract too much from how they'd normally exist in this environment. mine love pipes and tight spaces. they also love water. this way they can also be around each other in a communal type of space; not just outside the pipes, but in as well. when I get around to revamping the bin hotel (another episode, worth a watch), I'll be asking for creative feedback on the design and which plants to use. I used sedge grasses in the first version of that. please also bear in mind that this is Australia, we have different plant species and I'll have to do some differentiation between plants and weeds. Ideally large-leaved plants with a minimal root footprint that are good in water. thanks for watching! 🐸
Needs a nice paint job. You also can manipulate pvc with a torch to make it look like wood/logs. Maybe some Hens and Chicks and other succulents. To finish them up pretty. Would be fun to level up and make a little free standing patio pool/pond with these popping up. Could have little fish.
@@sylvia106 most But I'm thinking of it being above the H20. But yes, maybe something like Creeping Jenny. Some kind of ground cover that drapes And use heat gun to make the pvc look like tree branches. I'm just riffing. Im not downng his aesthetic but my artist brain goes to the next level.
I'm so glad this popped up on my feed! I had never heard of this before, but I have seen our local tree frogs (In NC, USA) hanging out in some scrap pipe I have out by the shed! I'll have to give this a try, especially if it keeps them off my sliding glass door--they tend to hop inside when it slides open and it's a hassle to catch them and get them back outside.
thanks for watching, I wish you success with your creation. I'm working on a follow-up vid right now to thank you guys for clicking on the vids, boosting my subscribership, views and watchtime, even though TH-cam is responsible for getting it out to you through the Browse Features (an 'experimental' thing they did with my channel).
haha they got their own frogs to deal with. besides, when you live in a rural area like I'm in, the frogs have free reign and croak as loud as they want, and I can still barely hear my neighbour's frogs. 🐸
they love to sing, specialising in baritone and tenor. I like to think the pipe sizes enhance their calls, ie. the larger the frog, the larger the pipe, the deeper the croak. 🐸
I have native green tree frogs in my yard. I was so shocked and so excited to see them in the pipes of my windchimes, with those little heads sticking out. So now this encourages me to take it a bit further. Thank you for this.
Many years ago, I built a stone / Douglas Fir garden cottage for a customer. She insisted on having a 6' diameter cast iron sugar kettle, equipped with a water pump, plummed thru an old maunual well hand pump fixture placed in the garden for a frog habitat. I was sure shed lost her mind, but, its what she wanted and she had the means so I found the kettle for sale at an old Louisiana plantation, made the two day round trip to get it, installed per her specs and to my complete amazement, within days, that thing was filled and covered with frogs. After that, the frog noise was continously audible from a surprising distance.
An electrical chop saw for wood has no dificulty in cutting PVC Pipe. Make your mark, hold the PVC steady and SLOWLY feed the running blade through the pipe. If you feed to fast, it will cause the pipe to spin and everything jump. FEED SLOWLY.
yeah, that's because the novelty of something not a lot of people know about or have heard of, comes with a pricetag. I decided I could make one myself for a heap less, and made another two since then. the design possibilities are limited only by imagination.
@@Witchfoot.Incorporated absolutely, but they still need to maintain the hotels, and minimal maintenance is what most people would like. fewer pipes, larger diameter, less water, a big plant wo they have somewhere else other than the pipes to go and still be 'safe', etc. there's heaps of ways to minimise.
I wonder if you can plant some morning glory vines that can root in water as a plant, so just so to keep the cycle of water going, so you just add fresh water in containers, especially in dry seasons.
Blue morning glory (Ipomoea indica) is the only type we have in Australia, and it's considered a "significant environmental weed". But I like your thinking. I do have some ideas for other plants come Spring time, as they're in brumation period (hibernating) right now. Also this area of the country is consider to be sub-tropical and gets an above-average annual rainfall.
Thanks for the video. I’m here in Florida USA and we have problems with non-native Cuban tree frogs. I will make some of these but with modifications for our climate and use. Plan on making this to help trap nonnative Cuban tree frogs. They eat everything that moves and we loose a lot of native tree frogs, lizards and even small birds to these things. We also have cane toads from Australia.
glad I could help, and thanks for watching. all I can say is that this works for our tree frogs in Australia and they're kept safe from cane toads thank to the elevation they're at (at least 2ft/600mm above the ground). I hope you can adapt it to your surrounds and habitat and make something work for your needs.
I will say rhat cane toads are not native to Australia- they are invasive here though. Not saying that you don't have them from Australia, but it is also possible they were brought from somewhere else
Cane toads are native to Central and Southern America, NOT Australia. They were an introduced and invasive species here. They are native to you, they probably came up through Mexico and then just migrated to you. Cane toads can spread pretty far and wide when they want to. Australia have NO native toads, we only have frogs here except introduced ones.
just remember that this type of habitat is for tree frogs, so make sure the frogs you get can sit on vertical surfaces. I feel obliged to say that now the video has gone beyond Australian shores, where the populations of frogs are both tree- and ground-dwelling. thanks for watching! 🐸
I live in Florida and we have frogs like these, we had a house with accordian style storm window covers and they would hide in these in the day and my windows were covered with frog poop. And any place that was hallow, they would go into. We also have cane toads which are an invasive species, very poisonous to pets if they try to eat them. This would be better than them living in the storm window covers.
greetings from down under. welcome and thanks for watching. any frogs will make their home somewhere that's out of the way and out of sight to predators. unfortunately that means they can be hard to relocate when they have bespoke (custom) living arrangements, made by humans that care about their wellbeing. if they have the impetus (reasoning/drive) to go to something that you've made for them, it's because their lives wil be made better for them in the frog hotels rather than guttering, downpipes, accordian-style storm window covers, etc. cane toads are only an issue around the tropical and sub-tropical areas of Australia, and while invasive, they haven't made it all the way through the land (yet) and we keep stringent controls on how they're to be dealt with as an invasive pest. it's great that there's some international interest in these, and please share the video with your friends, thanks again. 🐸
Omg. It makes the frogs so loud. You made frogs into speakers and I think they sound beautiful. Like this makes the. So much more beautiful to hear because the noise is so much louder, and the resonance is nice like our instruments. Listen I think this is a natural, living sound sculpture in addition to being a frog hotel. You've made something unique and wonderful. I wish I had a place for frogs to live. Apartments don't touch grass
thanks for the comment, but I didn't create the idea, I just replicated it, made a video and TH-cam popularised it. if you like this then you'll love the video I have coming up very soon. thanks for watching 🐸
I think a lot of the US is starting to come around to the metric system, though it's had quite a lot of false starts and adoption problems. The US-made documentaries I've seen in the past 10 years will (broadly) no longer use an imperial system of measurement. The pipes I have in there now are 1½", 2" and now 2 & 9/16" (65mm). 🐸
What fun! We have green and gray tree frogs that hang out in my watering can in hot weather. I have to be careful and make sure I don't pour any frogs out!
haha yeah they love wet areas where they won't be seen. unfortunately, not being seen won't mean that the things they hide in "won't be used". 😄 thanks for watching 🐸
If the frogs are croaking they are attracting females and then you get eggs so you want to be able to support the tadpoles so if you create a framework that has holes big enough to attach the shortened pipes to so you can lift the whole apparatus up at once but making sure the holes on the plastic mesh they are secured to are big enough to let the pollywogs through and a section for them to feed and swim around in and maybe even put an oxigenator in there (but you shouldn't need to if there is water moss/algae in there already). You'll be set for a habitat!
this design was never made to support tadpoles and all the stuff needed to make that solution work. the frogs breed elsewhere (no idea exactly where). that kind of design would take a lot more thought and potentially be larger than what I've already done. a follow-up video I made (the 'bin hotel') would probably be a good candidate for this type of design. thanks for watching 🐸
I'm also living in a rural area where virtually no one could give a crap about frog noises! they're part of the environment and generally appreciated for just being here. thanks for watching 🐸
I love frogs, tree frogs in particular. I live where the ground freezes in winter. I believe they go underground. I rhink id have to release them come fall. Hearing the March "peepers" is always a thrill to hear and know the ground wont have a hard freeze again.
well these guys don't have such hardships here.. you'd barely know it was winter, except for after about 4pm when the heat is lost to cool atmosphere and the night sets in quick - cool but not overly 'cold'. I can relate with smaller frogs (Dainty and Bleating Tree frogs) getting to only 5cm long each, but they're hardly heard over the racket of the GTFs. thanks for watching 🐸
What a cracking idea, I shall have to try that. Am in England and we don't have many frogs but I have a pond on my allotment, it would be great to have one of these next to the pond.
awesome, just make sure it's for tree frogs (the type that can stick to walls/windows, etc.) or the pipe idea is null. if you get ground frogs and no tree frogs then it's best to stick to the pond idea. thanks for watching 🐸
Yayyy! There's a tree frog that visits me sometimes like after a day of no rain at all. I'm in Trinidad so she's a phytotriades auratus. The females have white stripes. It's currently hurricane season so I haven't seen her for a bit. I've named her Lilo & she likes to sit in a small glass of water I have on a table outside the kitchen window but I want to move the table. I think she'd love this hotel; thank you so much!!
Love this concept! You might want to mention that these are specifically designed for tree frogs, so the people watching don't build one and are left wondering why the frogs on their property don't move in.
yeah it's one thing I left out when making this video a while back, because all we get up here are tree frogs. ground-dwelling frogs aren't a common sight. if I'd have known this vid would get this much attention, sure.. hindsight would prevail. thanks for watching 🐸
@@bigfellavideography You must live in the high desert like me, I only get tree frogs too. I'm pretty sure you can add a comment where everyone that looks at the video will see it.
@@EyesWideOpen77 actualy, far from it. I'm on the north coast of NSW (near the Qld border) and it's sub-tropical conditions here. and you're right, I can make a pinned comment, but totally forgot about it in this video. thanks for the reminder! 🐸
Frogs love tubes and pipes. I live in Florida and I had two cute little frogs that lived in a pipe in my backyard. I sadly had to move a few months ago. I wonder if they are still living there lol
the frog mantra is "if I fits, I sits." this doesn't matter where they are (or how they get there), as long as they're safe and away from all that's dangerous in their world, then they're happy. it's very likely that they're still in the place you last saw them, because they're not prone to moving around much unless they need to. thanks for watching. 🐸
I lived in Minnesota for the first 55 years of my life. Frogs, toads, and salamanders were everywhere, with all the lakes we had. 20+ years ago, I moved to Las Vegas. I've never seen any of those amphibians here, and I miss them very much. We see an occasional gecko. Sadly, I've found a few on my sticky insect traps. I was able to release them with cooking oil, but I don't know if they survived. Thank you for an interesting rush of froggy dopamine! I love these 'little buggers'.
Stoked to stumble across this! I’m pulling out my “plumbing bin” now. What a great addition to our front water feature! It already has a bunch of these raucously loud, sticky footed, green bug-eaters, too. The wife will love this (not entirely haha they’re ear-splittingly loud already)…..😂🤘🏻
I moved from Pennsylvania to Florida 15 years ago and having always caught and kept bullfrogs as pets, I immediately fell in love with the tree frogs down here - the outside of my home and pool deck are crawling with them. I've never seen nor heard of this but I will definitely be knocking out a few for my frogs. Cutting PVC pipe - you can buy a pipe cutter for around $15 which is safe and simple to use and will give you straight cuts every time. Cleaning your rocks option one - semiaquatic plants - I use them in my turtle pool and they gobble up the turtle poo and thus give me healthy plants and clean water - just make sure to keep your water level up - adding water will wash any poo on the top into the rocks where the roots can get it - I use black elephant ears and papyrus. Cleaning your rocks option two - you can just run a hose over the rocks for a bit and the water will eventually flush out the nasty stuff - no need to do so at high pressure. Cleaning the tubes - the local tree frogs don't mind getting soaked so just run the hose through the pipes at low pressure while they are in place - the frog poo isn't difficult to remove from smooth surfaces while the frogs will simply hunker down till the water stops or leave on their own. They can breath underwater so you don't have to worry about drowning them - at least the ones in Florida. Other ways to mount the pipes - I'm going to stick some in the pots with the papyrus and black elephant ears as they are sitting in the pool and thus constantly damp - the frog poo will absorb into the moist soil and feed the plants, who also thrive on the turtle poo - I call it "turtlizer." Don't have a mosquito problem - do you have a lot of dragonflies in your area as they are one of the best mosquito repellents out there.
I didn't know about PVC pipe cutters at the time of making this (almost 2 years ago) and just used what I had on hand. regarding the plants, I'll be doing a revamp of the 'bin hotel' (another video in this frog hotel series) in the coming months. I shall be adding some suggestions posed in the comments thus far, including better plants which will suit the purpose. I'm hoping this will serve the purpose of keeping the water quality good and absorbing the nutrients that produce algae, which is why I clean them out a few times a year already. mosquitoes are around, but just not in the frog hotels. I can't say why not but it must be something to do with the water level or something. I take all advice on board, so thanks for the comment 🐸
@@bigfellavideography Yeah, the pipe cutter is a unique tool which you either know about or you don't as it's not something you automatically buy for your tool kit. Skeeters need open water - even if it's just a puddle or empty bucket - they don't want all those rocks for their larva.
No they can't breathe under water. Google tree frogs. Sadly hose water has chlorine and they soak chemicals through their skin, so better to not soak them directly if possible. Water loses chlorine after it sits out for 24 hours.
Been watching Oz ponds and made my own bog filter for my pond. This made me think that these could be really cool additions to a bog filter (we made one out of one of those 5 gallon buckets). A cool feature that your frog hotel might benefit from is a spigot at the base for easier clean out. Then instead of taking the gravel out periodically to clean it, you would open the spigot and run water through the gravel until it runs clean, then close it back up.
I addressed this concern a while back and deduced that it's impractical for such a feature on this, because there's more to cleaning out the frog hotels than just draining the water.... quite a bit more in fact. thanks for watching 🐸
Thanks for the video! I adapted your design to make my own. It's winter in Melbourne at the moment so I'll just wait for spring to see how my design works.
your winters can be much harsher than ours, and your frog species are different as well. just remember this is for tree frogs, not ground-dwelling frogs. I'd be curious to see how yours goes. in the meantime, get onto a Facebook group called Frog Hotels and Ponds Australia. all useful info is there. thanks for watching 🐸
There's Superman, Batman, Spiderman, and now - drum roll - Frogman! You are a hero to frogs. What a brilliant idea! I am going to build a few frog hotels, so creative. We have frogs in Northern California and they look for damp spots during dry summer months. You hear the chorus in the creeks, such a symphony in Spring. I'll find some toad houses too. No more bugs in my garden, yay!!! I also feed birds, so soil bugs are decimated too. Thank you!!
thanks, but to be clear, it wasn't my idea... I just helped to popularise it. regarding your frogs, it makes sense, because they're safe, out of the way, and have a nice echo chamber to croak in. 🐸
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Key points that I forgot when I uploaded this video - this type of hotel will only suit TREE FROGS (ie. the ones that have the sticky feet and cling to walls, etc.), unfortunately ground frogs and toads will have to make use of another design of hotel which is closer to the ground. I have no issues with mosquitoes, and I can't really say why. The design of these hotels was based around simplicity only. I appreciate everyone's feedback about design upgrades, etc. but it will mean making a totally different type of hotel, while still navigating around the potential risks/hazards (predators and the like) that this one cleverly avoids. Thanks so much for watching, and for helping me grow this channel above 1500 subs! 🐸
Does anyone know what the long-term effects are of PVC on frogs? I know the PVC isn't exactly healthy for human exposure? Could it maybe be substituted for bamboo? Probably would look a little more natural as well.
@@DFMurray as long as it doesn't degrade (and I check for signs each time I clean them out) there's no issue.
@@DFMurray Bamboo might fuck with their biology more than many things, since it has antibacterial properties and frogs drink through osmosis via their skin, though this might only be an issue in the sap of fresh stuff. Either way, caution is warranted.
If recommend that you use a silicone suitable aquariums. Regular silicone poisoning of frogs long term.
They naturally climb our windows
You've made a frog organ 😁
... in a way, yes! 🐸 thanks for watching
Ha!😂
How hard would it be to make them harmonize like a wind chime?
Frogan 🐸
@@lgjm5562 rather difficult.. firstly, frogs will never sound like wind chimes (duh), and second they'll never harmonise. they'll always be competing with each other for the top voice to attract the females. but females are attracted to different tones, so some will go for the 'tenor' and others go for the 'bass'. they're not interested in becoming a choir, and at best they sound like a woodsaw going through hardwood or a very old and rusty set of bedsprings. 😆🐸
Very cool! Remember people, these are a certain type of Frog with sticky feet for climbing. Not every Frog can do this and if they go in they won't be able to get back out and will die. Same with other small animals. So this isn't a make and leave it thing, you have to be on top of this to make sure you don't accidentally kill another type of frog or animal.
well put, and to be clear, there are other types of frog house/enclosure for non-tree frogs (the ones with claws instead of suckery pads) which are best suited at ground-level so they can get in and out. and even though this is for a certain type of frog, all habitats require maintenance, just like a terrarium, vivarium or aquarium. you also need to be aware that frogs will grow in size, and they don't care about who goes in which pipe and how many are in there. so as I've learned, make your pipes a little bigger than you think you'll need. your frogs will thank you for it. 🐸
I would drill a hole on the bottom and fill the pipe with gravel to the hole level so there's an escape route
Fantastic idea ❤
@@sjleo799 thanks for watching
I was literally thinking to myself, "so can I build one and put it out and frogs will be drawn to it or is it only a certain kind of frog?". Remembered he said there was very little info on the internet about frog hotels so I thought lets have a quick look at the comment section and here you are confirming for me what I already suspected! We dont have climbing frogs in Spain so I will have to pass sadly.
Very clever! If those pipes actually amplify their mating calls, that changes the whole game for the males. Tree Frog Honeymoon Hotel?
Ha! ❤
I like Fort Frogg better.
well thought and well said. now I wonder who you are to be so smart and understanding.
Brothel?
My son is on a frog kick lately. This will be a wonderful father son project
awesome, I hope you can make something that'll be the envy of other frogs and humans alike! thanks for watching. 🐸
@@bigfellavideography haha. Will do!
I kept some frogs as pets for a couple of years and I’m sure my dad would’ve loved to join in on the project. It’s those memories you carry forward in your life that makes a difference and a great learning opportunity for both, not only into family relationships but also wildlife, vegetation and ecosystem preservation. If you’re feeling brave and the frog hotel goes well maybe a little pond as the next project? You might get to see plenty of birds, insects and give a place for tadpoles to start their journey straight after the hotel, but maybe at that point you can call it a frog brothel ;)
@@LoyalZen0x I like your thinking, however I did entertain this notion for a while and realised that it wouldn't work as well as others would suggest, because I'm in a rural area and my back yard is a low-lying paddock that often floods. that said, my next project for these guys in the coming months will be to do some 'upgrades' for them (these hotels will largely stay the same), but my other one will be getting a revamp. stay tuned and thanks for watching.
@@LoyalZen0x we have a gold fish pond with 6-7” long gold fish. One of the frogs my son caught is a bull frog so we let it go in the hotel next to the pond. We see him every day and he even eats the gold fish food lol
I like how you made the pipe horns to let all the neighbours know you have frogs at 2AM😁😁
Here in the UK, I made frog hotels by laying 10cm terracotta pots on their sides and putting moss inside
that works too! 😀 do you know what type of frogs they are?
@@bigfellavideography they're called 'common frog' and 'common toad' 😂
I've done that too. Every broken pot becomes a potential frog or toad home.😊
Nice!
Doesn’t work where I live. Raccoons will rip that sort of stuff apart and eat the frogs
I live in Florida and I have a tree frog living in the corner piece of the siding at the back patio of my townhouse. I'm totally going to build one of these and put it on my patio. I also have a toad living in a burrow under my AC unit - I just saw him peeking out this morning - tons of Brown Anole lizards and a few Green Anoles as well, and a Black Racer snake living in the garden. Then there are the squirrels, birds, armadillos, opossums, and I even saw a Gray Fox once. I can take a nature walk in my backyard!
awesome stuff, sounds like you have quite the menagerie! these hotels will suit tree frogs only, and if you see any other type of frog in there, rescue it first and then wonder how the hell it got in there 😆 thanks for watching 🐸
I hope you support the wildlife with native plantings. So easy to overlook the importance of all parts of an ecosystem.
@@deadenders16 I'm getting some better plants to upgrade the larger frog hotel I have (seen in other videos in this series) so they can hang out on their leaves and such. thanks for watching 🐸
Hey, I also live in Florida and this looks like a cute idea but remember that we have snakes here and that wasps and mud dauber really like empty tubes to build nests in. If you decide to make this, I wouldn't put in near a porch or entrance, just in case. Also, you can add one of those little solar powered yard lights to it, that way you don't have to put it near a place w/power & the light will still be there to attract insects for the frogs to eat.
@@mommy2libras regarding the solar lights, I'd suggest something more up-market than your standard garden path lights. something with higher wattage that will last more than a year. I got sick of having to throw out garden LED lights because the sun we get is enough to severely degrade the solar collectors on the lights, to the point that they no longer function.
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(I see what you did there...)
thanks for watching! 🐸
Omg they're so cute sticking their heads out the holes 😭🥺😭
thanks for watching 🐸
This is a cool way to keep our little guys safe from predators
thanks for watching! 🐸
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Google ‘frog hotel snake’
It’s a buffet table for snakes. Meals stuck in tubes with no exit…
@rachael9164... It will attract snakes. Ask me how I know.
@@cinnamongmc5430 depends where you are, really. you can't make blanket statements like that and be 100% sure that it will happen for everyone, 100% of the time. ask me how I know.
So jealous you get to live in a place that has this awesome frogs just chillen on your porch.
thanks for watching! 🐸
Not just your porch. I’m in Florida and you’ll find them in the kitchen and inside rooms with outside connecting doors.
Edit: ours are much smaller
There are tree frogs (several species) throughout the U.S. especially the South. We also have anoles and Mediterranian geckos (my garage is full of those). But I am DEFINITELY jealous that Australians have White's tree frogs everywhere. -They are hands-down the most 'chill' amphibians of all, great pets.
@@audreymuzingo933 I had to look that name up, they're not known by White's over here, just Green Tree Frog (or GTF). apparently there was an attempt to have them migrate to the US and NZ, but somehow it failed. but yes, these have so much chill that they'd be right at home in a fridge (not literally). thanks for watching 🐸
@@audreymuzingo933 I get the house geckos and the western banded gecko, and when it rains Sonoran desert toads, but nothing I could make a hotel for that is regularly used
So jealous of Australia’s dumpy frogs, they’re so wonderful
thanks for watching 🐸
Lol
Now I want a frog hotel to attract frogs and I do not even live near water....LOL
I've let part of my yard grow completely wild for lightening bugs, bees, butterflies, etc
I have random large trays of plain/sugar water all over the yard (experiencing extreme heat, currently)
I have a cat door in my garage for all the feral cats in my neighborhood, opossums & raccoons, as well ( I've been surprised by several different critters enjoying the temp controlled feeding & bedding area in my garage)...I can only imagine what my sons will have to say about coming over and seeing that I am now trying to attract frogs!!! This is great, I'm glad I came across this! Thank you!
The poor toad... Homeless, cold, & hungry down on the concrete while the frogs are livin' it up in the Frog Hotel....
Looks good, cool vid!
the toad is a deporable and invasive (not to mention poisonous) pest. they did their job of ridding the cane beetle (mostly) of its existence, now they've become the pest they were brought here to eradicate. this is one toad species (non-native btw, we don't get native toads in Australia) that you don't want in your back yard. thanks for watching. 🐸
@@bigfellavideographyAh, I see! I didn't know that.
My Pacific Northwest toad is fun and not a problem. My guess is that the ones who rarely secrete poison are those who’ve recently eaten poisonous reptile species.
@@maremuse most toads aren't a problem, but the cane toad is.
@@maremuse take a look at the Cane Toad _rubella marina_ and check out the parotoid glands (poison sacks) at the top of their front arms. also, these breed in plague proportions.
When I was in the Navy and stationed at NS Mayport Florida, right after you gave your orders at the drive thru of any fast food joint, you turned the corner and.... were met by a wall of tree frogs stuck to the wall getting their very own fast food fix. My apartment wasn't to far away and .... the best home entertainment system when the power was down was a candle near the sliding glass door. Tree Frogs love glass, and Tree Frogs DO fight! Loser is usually dinner.
Toads are beautiful too 😊
we don't get any native toads here, but Australia seems to be fighting an endless battle with the poisonous and non-native cane toad. thanks for watching 🐸
Bro made the Frogophone
Bruh 😭
😂😂😂
Yours looks WAYYYY better than the store sold variety!
thanks for the comment, and thanks for watching 🐸
@@bigfellavideographyit really does look much better!
So jealous of Aussies, with White's tree frogs, budgies and cockatoos living wild around you like a 360-degree pet store, but happier.
our "White's" (Green Tree Frogs as they're known locally) span about half the country. the cockatoos you soon get over as their endless screeching jangles the nerves, and only some places have budgerigars flying wild. where I live it's more koalas and wallabies, but the rainbow lorikeets are a lot more fun to watch - they're small, colorful and all attitude! I've made some videos about them on my bird feeder, which is also documented on this channel. thanks for watching 🐸
It's a trade off though, i'm okay without the dinner plate sized spiders under everything. Nothing like seeing a face hugger run across your buddies wall in a zoom call.
@@BouncingTribbles awww... what, you don't like Huntsman spiders? they're far more scared of us than us humans are of them for their size. they take no notice of us, and sit quietly in a corner waiting to eat the small insects. I've had a few sitting in a garage and I ignore them, and just sweep up the insect carcasses after the spider has left them in a nice pile for me.
@@bigfellavideography Definitely a fair point about the cockatoos' screeching. And I have misophonia so yeah that would get old immediately for me.
"Good luck with your Frog hotel building" Words I never thought I would ever hear together.
haha, and still probably won't be the weirdest thing you'll hear all year. thanks for watching 🐸
Frogs are the canary in the coal mine. If you have frogs, you have a healthy environment!
I used to have the occasional toad around my place but I haven't seen one for years. Too many neighbors around me get their yards treated with chemicals. 😢
@@bahba9247I agree. Have often had conversations about how people miss the wildlife ( frogs, birds, etc.) I always ask if they or neighbors get their lawns treated?= Bingo.😥
They kill most Everybody and Everything, indiscriminately.
Hate to put folk out of business but if I was queen? I'd Ban them. Is very hard for me to pass them on the road and not Flip them Off. But people support them...🥴🙄🤪
Hello from the States! Where ever I've lived, we've always had some form of frog or toad house, though not these cute pipe houses! A while ago we had one that was just a cut chunk of a tree branch that was rotting from the inside outward (the whole tree was, really), and the frogs would squish in down the hollowed out middle. They surprised us when they finally moved in! We were keeping potted plants on top and my mother lifted the pot to move it and a whole parade of them came out after their roof disappeared! 😂 We tried not to disturb them after that. I love this setup, though. I think we're gonna have to try it since that branch slice is long rotted away. Good luck in the fight to keep your dumpies safe from those canes! 🐸
they love to be in trees, hence why they're 'tree frogs' 😆 but we have no trees big enough for them to call home just yet, and the closest ones are about a football field away. thanks for watching! 🐸
@@bigfellavideography Thank you for the frog house idea and the videos of my favorite frogs!
@@rougnashi you're quite welcome. thanks for watching. 🐸
Hello from the U.S.A. Thanks for sharing this video. I love my frogs and can't wait to try this.
enjoy your frogs and thanks for watching 🐸
Depending on where you live, be careful if you get frogs that can get stuck in the pipes (cause they will hop in either way.) Just make sure to check inside them frequently, just in case.
I love how to added plenty of care information on how to maintain your luxury frog hotel. Also, the importance of gloves or clean wet hands when you handle them. Wonderful video from start to finish!
thanks so much for the comment, and thanks for watching! 🐸
A tip for those in the US, I’d personally go for a smaller diameter as we don’t have any tree frogs quite as large as Australia’s wonderful dumpy tree frogs, maybe even a bunch of different diameters would be best, who knows!
best thing to do is experiment, and when they do get used, note which ones are most popuolated. you'll need to go a size bigger (eventually) to allow for frog growth and population explosion. 🐸
I was just thinking the same thing...
They look very pleased with themselves in their new found real estate. You should be proud!❤️
thanks for watching 🐸
This is perfect. I live next to a Frog gully. I find frogs in my yard. Now it's going to get really comfy. Redding California
awesome, thanks for watching 🐸
I am from a lowland, swampy area and was raised around all sorts of frogs. After moving to the mountains, I noticed the absence of some animal people, including the frogs. In 30 years, I've seen perhaps three frogs. Lately, there's been a tree frog serenading outside my kitchen window and it was like seeing an old friend when I found him/her! I've been considering ways to keep the frogs around and now I'm so grateful to you for sharing your brilliant idea, Big Fella!
great story. if you were serenaded by a frog, then it was a male, as females don't croak. I'm doing this for a similar reason, because frog populations are in decline around here, as are their habitats. I found these guys inside the house when I moved in, and saw the novel idea of a frog hotel at a plant nursery not long after, and thought I could do the same thing. so I've since moved the frogs back outside and most of them are rather happy with their accommodations... and being a frog, who wouldn't be. thanks for watching, and you're welcome! 🐸
@@bigfellavideography I respect you for helping the frogs survive, with the intention of flourishing, Big Fella. I'm honored that he was serenading me outside my kitchen window. I've a bird bath below and flood light above, so hopefully he is content for now, until I make a frog hotel per your instructions. I expect there's enough insects there for him to feed on, but in an effort to keep him healthy and happy, I've supplemented his diet with mealworms. He seems to have eaten some. You're certainly a Dedicated Inventor of Luxury Froghomes.
@@BearClanMan1970 haha thanks. frogs will hook into mealworms pretty well. regarding the frog hotel design, I'd encourage you to make something unique, and not a duplicate of what I've shown here (others have done this). if you don't get cane toads where you are then you'll likely not need elevation or even a bucket to put the hotels in, and the frogs can be enjoyed at ground level. 😃
I have a big round cattle trough that gets taken over by leopard frogs and thier loud singing vibrates the whole tank !
It's loud & is amplified like crazy it kinda sounds techno.😂🎉
I love frogs & toads and I enjoy seeing thier "frog parties" at night.
Sometimes I DO have to save toads that can't get back out. I do check every morning
maybe add some portable disco lights? frog rave. thanks for watching 🐸
I am a frog and toad lover❤They are adorable! I didn't know about making homes for them until now. Thanks!😊
I was wondering if it'l would work for toads. We have a couple at work that hangout out front on the porch at night
thanks for watching 🐸
These are awesome. I moved to Australia after my 20th birthday from NZ. Flew in to Brisbane & we made our way to cairns by car taking our time to enjoy the journey. We made friends with an Aussie guy at our local RSA in NZ before we flew out, he told us about everything to be cautious about, we would listen to him for hours… he told us if we’re camping by water and hear barking to pick up our tent and move inland because it’s not dogs we’d hear it’s crocs, and cane toads are poisonous, they have poison glands on their backs. In NZ we would stop at rivers and have a swim, too scared to do that here with snakes crocs and god knows what else. Stopped at one caravan park after full day travelling. It was on dusk I wanted a shower. Our cabins had no amenities you had to use the communal shower block. So in I walk to shower, cautiously checking for snakes, spiders and anything that would give me a heart attack. My family stayed in the cabins drinking. When I finished my shower the night lights all came on, i got dried, dressed I went to exit and the whole wall of the exit was lined with frogs everywhere by the outside light, beetles and insects were attracted and buzzing around hitting everything like they were drunk. They all were enormous compared to NZ bugs. I had no idea whether the frogs were cane toads which I was told were poisonous. I’d never seen one. I had no idea how they delivered their poison, but my mind somehow got the better of me and I had come to conclusion in my imprisonment within that shower block they must send out darts from their backs perhaps. Well that was it. I was too scared to go through the door so there I was, in the men’s shower alone and trapped. I tried calling out for help but no one came. I went through 4 rolls of toilet paper making wet bombs to throw at the frogs aiming for the ledge so that I could get out but the frogs kept dodging my barrage of warfare. I was stuck there for over an hour and not one of my family members bothered to come check if I was okay. Ran out of toilet paper. In a last ditch effort of survival I draped my towel over me and ran through the door past all the frogs screaming like I was on fire. I hit the roof when I made it back to the cabin because no one came to help me. Still shaking I told them what happened. The buggers just burst out laughing. Next day I found out they were just green tree frogs, completely harmless. That bloody Aussie guy back in NZ warning us about stuff to scare us! The mess the cleaners would have had to clean up at the Ken’s toilet block entrance would have been a bugger. That was 30yrs ago. Australia has been home & a great country to us but I’ll always remember that night like yesterday. Thank you for sharing your frogs hotel. They’re cute seeing them living in them.
🤣🤣🤣 Fantastic story buddha, I love hearing fables like that, and locals hyping up the wildlife to anyone curious enough to pay attention to it all. Well, the easiest way to know for sure is the colouring - they're a mottled brown colour and have parotoid glands on their shoulders which secretes poison, but can't really shoot it out! 😂 cane toads can't jump very high, and they can't cling to walls/pipes, etc. because they have claws instead of suckery pads like tree frogs do. the green tree frogs are the most numerous and they'll go crazy for a feed when the bugs get attracted to the lights. these (and the water of course) are all the elements the frogs look for when making a sanctuary, so the pipes are safe enough for them, the water is there so they can hydrate, and the lights above the pipes to attract a meal. they couldn't have it any better. 🐸
@@bigfellavideography yip know that now after 30yrs. Nothing phases me now but my first few years here were freaking me out so I frequented nightclubs which you do when you’re 20. 50 now, braver wiser. Seeing those frogs black eyes made that memory flood back instantly. Glad you had a chuckle! Cheers mate 🙌😊
That story is hysterical! 🤣 Thanks for the laugh!
Wow. And a light to attract insects! That is posh. Interesting that they like the 90 degree corners less. We've got small green tree frogs that like to hide in closed patio umbrellas. I wonder if green anoles lizards would like this.
the light has been upgraded, something brighter and more directional to get more bugs in. not sure what it was with the 90° bends but my frogs just didn't ever venture into those pipes. the frogs might like to 'hide' on the leaves of bromeliads, something I'm considering doing for my next hotel iteration/upgrade. it'll depend on how much space I have to work with. thanks for watching. 🐸
It could be that it’s harder for them to get inside maybe? Idk much about them. I’d think their feet could stick but the angle may just be a hassle to get inside quickly.
I learned about "frog hotels" today, thank you.
you're welcome and appreciate the superthanks as well. thanks for watching 🐸
Great work. Glad you brought up handling them with wet mitts.
Probably good to mention also that you shouldn't use detergents or chemicals to "clean out" their pipes.
I don't think I'd want them croaking from inside an echo chamber right outside my bedroom window though!
yes, a good point - I only ever clean out the pipe with a pipe cleaning brush and a sponge attached to it. they don't like human cleanliness as much as we do. this is a point I'll be making in the follow-up video, it has some subtle upgrades.
Cute!!! These frogs are massive. For other viewers on the eastern US, we don't really get roaming frogs this big. The biggest frogs comfortable not napping in water are our tree frogs which might make use of these hotels, but are much smaller than what you find in Australia. The biggest non-pond amphibians are probably our toads which might use these, but cant climb and probably prefer hiding in dirt to being high.
in Australia we have no native toads, only cane toads that were introduced, which poison everything that tries to eat them. green tree frogs are a decent size, but our comparable size to your frogs would be something like a robust bleating tree frog or a dainty tree frog. both are rather cute. thanks for watching 🐸
Maybe you could get bigger pipes! Yay🐸🐸🐸
@@Jennifer-nz2ss I'm doing a redesign on another larger hotel which has 90mm pipes. I'm looking for some creative feedback on that so I may drop in a post in the Community tab on my page soon. stay tuned, thanks for watching 🐸
No, but those toads will totally take over your potted plants. I was transplanting something this spring to a bigger pot and at the bottom there was a toad bigger than my hand- almost the size of the pot. Scared the heck out of both of us when I reached down with my hand, thinking it was a root ball. Jumped and scattered dirt everywhere. And I dropped both pot and plant.
@@mommy2libras Oh goodness, hope both the plant and pot were okay! I just heard a story from someone at work about a toad so big it was tearing up their front planters
This is fantastic! I have quite a large population of beautiful green tree frogs living in the rusted-out posts of my front stairs which I need to fix. I'll definitely build some of these frog hotels for my frogs to relocate to. Thank you so much for doing this great informative video!
There’s Facebook ground about them and they share tadpoles.
I’ve been looking for something like this! My tiny pond now has tadpoles but very little habitat for adults. Thank you!!
you're very welcome, and thanks for watching! 🐸
SO Many nights Serenaded by Frogs in rungs of Ladder. : } *Thanks*
thanks for watching, I've got another vid in progress right now, stay tuned! 🐸
Ingenious! Thanks for sharing this video, and talking about your goofs as a heads up. This will be a fun project with the kids!
thank you so much, and thanks for watching 🐸 speaking of goofs, I gotta download and edit my livestream I did earlier today, so it's at least presentable, unless you like craning your head 90°. 😆
I love tree frogs, I've had green, grey and dumpy tree frogs in vivariums as pets. This is such a cool project cuz it lets them be outside in their natural environment but provides them shelter and food. Where I live there's plenty of green and gray wild frogs so this is perfect. I really would like to see some plants in it though, not only for aesthetics but it would provide the frogs with more camouflage so I'm definitely going to add some water plants. Thanks for the idea! This definitely needs to be a thing everywhere!
thanks for the comment. I tried to give them the best of all worlds and not detract too much from how they'd normally exist in this environment. mine love pipes and tight spaces. they also love water. this way they can also be around each other in a communal type of space; not just outside the pipes, but in as well. when I get around to revamping the bin hotel (another episode, worth a watch), I'll be asking for creative feedback on the design and which plants to use. I used sedge grasses in the first version of that. please also bear in mind that this is Australia, we have different plant species and I'll have to do some differentiation between plants and weeds. Ideally large-leaved plants with a minimal root footprint that are good in water. thanks for watching! 🐸
Maybe plastic plants zip tied to the pipes. Then no worries about them dying.
Needs a nice paint job. You also can manipulate pvc with a torch to make it look like wood/logs.
Maybe some Hens and Chicks and other succulents. To finish them up pretty.
Would be fun to level up and make a little free standing patio pool/pond with these popping up. Could have little fish.
Succulents don’t like water!
@@sylvia106 most
But I'm thinking of it being above the H20.
But yes, maybe something like
Creeping Jenny. Some kind of ground cover that drapes
And use heat gun to make the pvc look like tree branches.
I'm just riffing. Im not downng his aesthetic but my artist brain goes to the next level.
This is so cute !!
thanks for watching 🐸
I'm so glad this popped up on my feed! I had never heard of this before, but I have seen our local tree frogs (In NC, USA) hanging out in some scrap pipe I have out by the shed! I'll have to give this a try, especially if it keeps them off my sliding glass door--they tend to hop inside when it slides open and it's a hassle to catch them and get them back outside.
Man im tempted to try this, thank the YT algorithm for finding your channel, keep it up!
thanks for watching, I wish you success with your creation. I'm working on a follow-up vid right now to thank you guys for clicking on the vids, boosting my subscribership, views and watchtime, even though TH-cam is responsible for getting it out to you through the Browse Features (an 'experimental' thing they did with my channel).
Smooth river gravel is the best choice for frogs BFV and a great project to build.❤
Yes.
The way you describe them is the same as many describe their teenagers. 😂
haha well that's kind of the way it is, I think it's a good comparison as they're oddly similar.
Eating all your food and not paying rent? 😂
I bet your neighbors just love you for this now the frogs sound is even louder when they go to bed.
haha they got their own frogs to deal with. besides, when you live in a rural area like I'm in, the frogs have free reign and croak as loud as they want, and I can still barely hear my neighbour's frogs. 🐸
@@bigfellavideography a frog for you a frog for you everybody gets a frog!
@@mattias969 I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream? 😆
😂
First woodpecker bongos, now frog organs?!
they love to sing, specialising in baritone and tenor. I like to think the pipe sizes enhance their calls, ie. the larger the frog, the larger the pipe, the deeper the croak. 🐸
@@bigfellavideography I can see the ideas now! A 'phantom of the opera'-themed hotel, a Bach-themed hotel....
@@cnmnnaturalist haha.. only problem is they can't "perform on command", and I'm not the mæstro with the stick... 😄
I have native green tree frogs in my yard. I was so shocked and so excited to see them in the pipes of my windchimes, with those little heads sticking out. So now this encourages me to take it a bit further. Thank you for this.
you're quite welcome, thanks for watching, and keep an eye out for another video coming pretty soon (an update to these hotels). 🐸
This is a fun idea.
thanks for watching! 🐸
I have a toad hotel, It is called a brush pile 😄.Yours is much more aesthetically pleasing
😂🤣 thanks, I'll take that as a compliment. 🐸
@@bigfellavideography yep, I love your 🐸s
Thanks for sharing in frog facebook group, very cute ❤
thanks so much for the comment and for watching. I might have a sneaky update to this pretty soon.
Awww...what a great idea! Never seen anything like this before...so thanks. Loved the intro ❤
@@Ju-qj8vx thanks for the comment, really appreciate the feedback.
Many years ago, I built a stone / Douglas Fir garden cottage for a customer.
She insisted on having a 6' diameter cast iron sugar kettle, equipped with a water pump, plummed thru an old maunual well hand pump fixture placed in the garden for a frog habitat.
I was sure shed lost her mind, but, its what she wanted and she had the means so I found the kettle for sale at an old Louisiana plantation, made the two day round trip to get it, installed per her specs and to my complete amazement, within days, that thing was filled and covered with frogs.
After that, the frog noise was continously audible from a surprising distance.
interesting story, and yes they're audible from a good few acres away, even without the megaphone-like pipes to amplify. thanks for watching 🐸
An electrical chop saw for wood has no dificulty in cutting PVC Pipe. Make your mark, hold the PVC steady and SLOWLY feed the running blade through the pipe. If you feed to fast, it will cause the pipe to spin and everything jump. FEED SLOWLY.
I so wish we had whites tree frogs here on east coast NC 🇺🇸
thanks for watching, I've got another vid in progress right now, stay tuned! 🐸
Charging $130 for a clay pot, gravel, pvc pipe and a mini frog statue is crazy.
yeah, that's because the novelty of something not a lot of people know about or have heard of, comes with a pricetag. I decided I could make one myself for a heap less, and made another two since then. the design possibilities are limited only by imagination.
130AUS is like 80US
Money well spent 😂
People will pay for the convenience.
@@Witchfoot.Incorporated absolutely, but they still need to maintain the hotels, and minimal maintenance is what most people would like. fewer pipes, larger diameter, less water, a big plant wo they have somewhere else other than the pipes to go and still be 'safe', etc. there's heaps of ways to minimise.
We have tree frogs hiding all over our property. I'll pass on making a hotel for them.
I wonder if you can plant some morning glory vines that can root in water as a plant, so just so to keep the cycle of water going, so you just add fresh water in containers, especially in dry seasons.
Blue morning glory (Ipomoea indica) is the only type we have in Australia, and it's considered a "significant environmental weed". But I like your thinking. I do have some ideas for other plants come Spring time, as they're in brumation period (hibernating) right now. Also this area of the country is consider to be sub-tropical and gets an above-average annual rainfall.
Nice looking Frogs.
Very clever making it accessible only to the native species
thanks for watching 🐸
I’m bedridden with a stomach bug and this video is both interesting and calming enough to help distract me. Thanks.
you'll love the latest upload then, distractions a-plenty! get better, and thanks for watching 🐸
Thanks for the video. I’m here in Florida USA and we have problems with non-native Cuban tree frogs. I will make some of these but with modifications for our climate and use. Plan on making this to help trap nonnative Cuban tree frogs. They eat everything that moves and we loose a lot of native tree frogs, lizards and even small birds to these things. We also have cane toads from Australia.
glad I could help, and thanks for watching. all I can say is that this works for our tree frogs in Australia and they're kept safe from cane toads thank to the elevation they're at (at least 2ft/600mm above the ground). I hope you can adapt it to your surrounds and habitat and make something work for your needs.
I will say rhat cane toads are not native to Australia- they are invasive here though. Not saying that you don't have them from Australia, but it is also possible they were brought from somewhere else
Cane toads are native to Central and Southern America, NOT Australia. They were an introduced and invasive species here. They are native to you, they probably came up through Mexico and then just migrated to you. Cane toads can spread pretty far and wide when they want to. Australia have NO native toads, we only have frogs here except introduced ones.
Oh my gosh! I cannot wait to try this in North Carolina. Thank you so much for this video.
just remember that this type of habitat is for tree frogs, so make sure the frogs you get can sit on vertical surfaces. I feel obliged to say that now the video has gone beyond Australian shores, where the populations of frogs are both tree- and ground-dwelling. thanks for watching! 🐸
I live in Florida and we have frogs like these, we had a house with accordian style storm window covers and they would hide in these in the day and my windows were covered with frog poop. And any place that was hallow, they would go into. We also have cane toads which are an invasive species, very poisonous to pets if they try to eat them. This would be better than them living in the storm window covers.
greetings from down under. welcome and thanks for watching. any frogs will make their home somewhere that's out of the way and out of sight to predators. unfortunately that means they can be hard to relocate when they have bespoke (custom) living arrangements, made by humans that care about their wellbeing. if they have the impetus (reasoning/drive) to go to something that you've made for them, it's because their lives wil be made better for them in the frog hotels rather than guttering, downpipes, accordian-style storm window covers, etc. cane toads are only an issue around the tropical and sub-tropical areas of Australia, and while invasive, they haven't made it all the way through the land (yet) and we keep stringent controls on how they're to be dealt with as an invasive pest. it's great that there's some international interest in these, and please share the video with your friends, thanks again. 🐸
Omg. It makes the frogs so loud. You made frogs into speakers and I think they sound beautiful. Like this makes the. So much more beautiful to hear because the noise is so much louder, and the resonance is nice like our instruments.
Listen I think this is a natural, living sound sculpture in addition to being a frog hotel. You've made something unique and wonderful. I wish I had a place for frogs to live. Apartments don't touch grass
thanks for the comment, but I didn't create the idea, I just replicated it, made a video and TH-cam popularised it. if you like this then you'll love the video I have coming up very soon. thanks for watching 🐸
For all you metrically challenged folks out there that is; 1-1/4" , 1-1/2" & 2"
I think a lot of the US is starting to come around to the metric system, though it's had quite a lot of false starts and adoption problems. The US-made documentaries I've seen in the past 10 years will (broadly) no longer use an imperial system of measurement. The pipes I have in there now are 1½", 2" and now 2 & 9/16" (65mm). 🐸
LOL thank you
I have not seen a frog in years , always saw them years ago
they're around, often just hiding in places where you're least likely to find them.
got hundreds around my pond and yard.
Such a neat project, love frogs
thanks for watching 🐸
Love frogs, fantastic idea!
What fun! We have green and gray tree frogs that hang out in my watering can in hot weather. I have to be careful and make sure I don't pour any frogs out!
haha yeah they love wet areas where they won't be seen. unfortunately, not being seen won't mean that the things they hide in "won't be used". 😄 thanks for watching 🐸
If the frogs are croaking they are attracting females and then you get eggs so you want to be able to support the tadpoles so if you create a framework that has holes big enough to attach the shortened pipes to so you can lift the whole apparatus up at once but making sure the holes on the plastic mesh they are secured to are big enough to let the pollywogs through and a section for them to feed and swim around in and maybe even put an oxigenator in there (but you shouldn't need to if there is water moss/algae in there already). You'll be set for a habitat!
this design was never made to support tadpoles and all the stuff needed to make that solution work. the frogs breed elsewhere (no idea exactly where). that kind of design would take a lot more thought and potentially be larger than what I've already done. a follow-up video I made (the 'bin hotel') would probably be a good candidate for this type of design. thanks for watching 🐸
You're brave, my friend. Most people want to quiet these noisy (but fascinating) frogs at night. You put them inside a megaphone!
I'm also living in a rural area where virtually no one could give a crap about frog noises! they're part of the environment and generally appreciated for just being here. thanks for watching 🐸
interesting
I love frogs, tree frogs in particular. I live where the ground freezes in winter. I believe they go underground. I rhink id have to release them come fall. Hearing the March "peepers" is always a thrill to hear and know the ground wont have a hard freeze again.
well these guys don't have such hardships here.. you'd barely know it was winter, except for after about 4pm when the heat is lost to cool atmosphere and the night sets in quick - cool but not overly 'cold'. I can relate with smaller frogs (Dainty and Bleating Tree frogs) getting to only 5cm long each, but they're hardly heard over the racket of the GTFs. thanks for watching 🐸
Not for my place... would just end up as spider, mouse or wasp housing, no frogs live here that could use this.
thanks for watching though!
How nice! I Love seeing people helping the environment and animals ❤️ 💕 ♥️
thanks for watching 🐸
What a cracking idea, I shall have to try that. Am in England and we don't have many frogs but I have a pond on my allotment, it would be great to have one of these next to the pond.
awesome, just make sure it's for tree frogs (the type that can stick to walls/windows, etc.) or the pipe idea is null. if you get ground frogs and no tree frogs then it's best to stick to the pond idea. thanks for watching 🐸
Let us know if you try it. ❤
This is brilliant. Tyvm !❤
Rocks that aren't "sharp" would be best, so they don't get a small abrasion that easily gets infected and can be fatal.❤
Yayyy! There's a tree frog that visits me sometimes like after a day of no rain at all. I'm in Trinidad so she's a phytotriades auratus. The females have white stripes. It's currently hurricane season so I haven't seen her for a bit. I've named her Lilo & she likes to sit in a small glass of water I have on a table outside the kitchen window but I want to move the table. I think she'd love this hotel; thank you so much!!
that's cute, I'm glad this video gave you some inspiration, and I hope the frog will appreciate it. thanks for watching 🐸
Love this concept! You might want to mention that these are specifically designed for tree frogs, so the people watching don't build one and are left wondering why the frogs on their property don't move in.
yeah it's one thing I left out when making this video a while back, because all we get up here are tree frogs. ground-dwelling frogs aren't a common sight. if I'd have known this vid would get this much attention, sure.. hindsight would prevail. thanks for watching 🐸
@@bigfellavideography You must live in the high desert like me, I only get tree frogs too. I'm pretty sure you can add a comment where everyone that looks at the video will see it.
@@EyesWideOpen77 actualy, far from it. I'm on the north coast of NSW (near the Qld border) and it's sub-tropical conditions here. and you're right, I can make a pinned comment, but totally forgot about it in this video. thanks for the reminder! 🐸
Frogs love tubes and pipes. I live in Florida and I had two cute little frogs that lived in a pipe in my backyard. I sadly had to move a few months ago. I wonder if they are still living there lol
the frog mantra is "if I fits, I sits." this doesn't matter where they are (or how they get there), as long as they're safe and away from all that's dangerous in their world, then they're happy. it's very likely that they're still in the place you last saw them, because they're not prone to moving around much unless they need to. thanks for watching. 🐸
I love tree frogs. Thanks for sharing. I prefer a miter saw for cutting PVC.
thanks for watching 🐸
I lived in Minnesota for the first 55 years of my life. Frogs, toads, and salamanders were everywhere, with all the lakes we had. 20+ years ago, I moved to Las Vegas. I've never seen any of those amphibians here, and I miss them very much. We see an occasional gecko. Sadly, I've found a few on my sticky insect traps. I was able to release them with cooking oil, but I don't know if they survived. Thank you for an interesting rush of froggy dopamine! I love these 'little buggers'.
great story, thanks for sharing and thanks for watching 🐸
What a cool idea. Thanks for sharing the build. 👍
thanks for watching 🐸
Really a cool project. I love it!
thanks so much for watching! 🐸
In NC of USA. we have a frog that attaches to back glass window at night. It’s like he is watching TV with us!
haha - that's definitely a tree frog, so this type of habitat would suit it.
Stoked to stumble across this! I’m pulling out my “plumbing bin” now. What a great addition to our front water feature! It already has a bunch of these raucously loud, sticky footed, green bug-eaters, too. The wife will love this (not entirely haha they’re ear-splittingly loud already)…..😂🤘🏻
awesome, thanks for watching 🐸
I moved from Pennsylvania to Florida 15 years ago and having always caught and kept bullfrogs as pets, I immediately fell in love with the tree frogs down here - the outside of my home and pool deck are crawling with them.
I've never seen nor heard of this but I will definitely be knocking out a few for my frogs.
Cutting PVC pipe - you can buy a pipe cutter for around $15 which is safe and simple to use and will give you straight cuts every time.
Cleaning your rocks option one - semiaquatic plants - I use them in my turtle pool and they gobble up the turtle poo and thus give me healthy plants and clean water - just make sure to keep your water level up - adding water will wash any poo on the top into the rocks where the roots can get it - I use black elephant ears and papyrus.
Cleaning your rocks option two - you can just run a hose over the rocks for a bit and the water will eventually flush out the nasty stuff - no need to do so at high pressure.
Cleaning the tubes - the local tree frogs don't mind getting soaked so just run the hose through the pipes at low pressure while they are in place - the frog poo isn't difficult to remove from smooth surfaces while the frogs will simply hunker down till the water stops or leave on their own. They can breath underwater so you don't have to worry about drowning them - at least the ones in Florida.
Other ways to mount the pipes - I'm going to stick some in the pots with the papyrus and black elephant ears as they are sitting in the pool and thus constantly damp - the frog poo will absorb into the moist soil and feed the plants, who also thrive on the turtle poo - I call it "turtlizer."
Don't have a mosquito problem - do you have a lot of dragonflies in your area as they are one of the best mosquito repellents out there.
I didn't know about PVC pipe cutters at the time of making this (almost 2 years ago) and just used what I had on hand. regarding the plants, I'll be doing a revamp of the 'bin hotel' (another video in this frog hotel series) in the coming months. I shall be adding some suggestions posed in the comments thus far, including better plants which will suit the purpose. I'm hoping this will serve the purpose of keeping the water quality good and absorbing the nutrients that produce algae, which is why I clean them out a few times a year already. mosquitoes are around, but just not in the frog hotels. I can't say why not but it must be something to do with the water level or something. I take all advice on board, so thanks for the comment 🐸
@@bigfellavideography Yeah, the pipe cutter is a unique tool which you either know about or you don't as it's not something you automatically buy for your tool kit.
Skeeters need open water - even if it's just a puddle or empty bucket - they don't want all those rocks for their larva.
No they can't breathe under water. Google tree frogs. Sadly hose water has chlorine and they soak chemicals through their skin, so better to not soak them directly if possible.
Water loses chlorine after it sits out for 24 hours.
Met a few of these little green frogs they friendly little creatures
We are doing this! thanks so much! Illinois , USA
good luck with it! thanks for watching 🐸
Should put tree bark on the pvc pipes to give something to cling better and may even look better!
others do this type of thing, but it won't suit these hotels in my backyard because they're not in a garden or whatever.
They have suction cups on each toe and can run on plastic or glass.
Cool concept. The designs options are still early in style liberty and Intel qualification.
Great video option and sharings💯
thanks for watching 🐸
Gosh, I just love those! Thanks for sharing 👍💚
thanks for watching 🐸
14:49 canoodling!!🥰❤
Been watching Oz ponds and made my own bog filter for my pond. This made me think that these could be really cool additions to a bog filter (we made one out of one of those 5 gallon buckets). A cool feature that your frog hotel might benefit from is a spigot at the base for easier clean out. Then instead of taking the gravel out periodically to clean it, you would open the spigot and run water through the gravel until it runs clean, then close it back up.
I addressed this concern a while back and deduced that it's impractical for such a feature on this, because there's more to cleaning out the frog hotels than just draining the water.... quite a bit more in fact. thanks for watching 🐸
Thanks for the video! I adapted your design to make my own. It's winter in Melbourne at the moment so I'll just wait for spring to see how my design works.
your winters can be much harsher than ours, and your frog species are different as well. just remember this is for tree frogs, not ground-dwelling frogs. I'd be curious to see how yours goes. in the meantime, get onto a Facebook group called Frog Hotels and Ponds Australia. all useful info is there. thanks for watching 🐸
I love this. You are so awesome for doing this. ❤❤❤
awww thanks for the comment, and thanks for watching 🐸
There's Superman, Batman, Spiderman, and now - drum roll - Frogman! You are a hero to frogs. What a brilliant idea! I am going to build a few frog hotels, so creative. We have frogs in Northern California and they look for damp spots during dry summer months. You hear the chorus in the creeks, such a symphony in Spring. I'll find some toad houses too. No more bugs in my garden, yay!!! I also feed birds, so soil bugs are decimated too. Thank you!!
What a great idea. I had some frogs hanging out in the tubes of my wind chimes. I think they like the way they magnafy their croaks.
thanks, but to be clear, it wasn't my idea... I just helped to popularise it. regarding your frogs, it makes sense, because they're safe, out of the way, and have a nice echo chamber to croak in. 🐸