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.
@@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
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
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 🐸
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. 🐸
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. 🐸
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 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!
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.
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.
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 🙌😊
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 🐸
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.
Awww froggies! It is a good idea to paint PVC for exterior use. PVC deteriorates in UV light. Most people outside the plumbing industry are not aware of that.
thanks for the comment... I've had these out for almost 2 years and each time I wash the hotels out, I check the condition of the pipes. there's been no degradation or deterioration thus far. useful tip though! thanks for watching 🐸
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 🐸
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! 🐸
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! 🐸
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 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
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.
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.
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!!
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.
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)…..😂🤘🏻
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. 🐸
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 RU-vid popularised it. if you like this then you'll love the video I have coming up very soon. thanks for watching 🐸
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!
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 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 RU-vid is responsible for getting it out to you through the Browse Features (an 'experimental' thing they did with my channel).
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 🐸
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. 🐸
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’ve got Frogs & Toads 🐸 I’ve had frog pots on my back porch 4 years. I love them! And I call them my Bug Patrol. Between them & my lizards I’ve got quite a Bug Patrol. Very echo friendly pest control. And Free!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
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.
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 🐸
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 🐸
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!!
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. 🐸
This is such a cool idea. I am so glad that you made this video. I’m gonna go out make me a couple today. That’s gonna be my little hobby for this evening and I can’t wait to see how well it works. Thank you again and keep coming up with these awesome ideas it gives me the kids something to do and Just really neat.
Love this idea 💡 ❤ Check your hardware store in the pipe section for a set of pvc pipe cutters. They look like a big wrench 🔧, but they ratchet with a squeeze motion and cut the pipe clean. They don't leave any rough edges, so no sanding! I have a pair and I love using them!
thanks, it's not something I've ever thought to get a hold of, as the Dremel did the job I wanted. a lot of others have suggested the same thing so I'll look into that next time I'm at Bunnings. I'm going to revamp my latest hotel in a few months, so keep an eye out for that too. 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 🐸
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.
Itd be cool if you had a wider bucket, same set up with the pipes but around the outside but all converging on a central 'hub' within the bucket that is closed off. You could have an exposed cap at the top you could take off and clean out any waste that falls down into the hub while also providing extra space for the frogs.
This is hilariously cute but loud! I had a windchime with open metal tubes and a frog family took it over. I have a picture of them peeking their heads out of the top of the tubes. So cute. Love this idea. But here in Florida, bees and wasps would take it over.
I removed the periscope-looking 90° bends because the frogs weren't using them. swapped them all over for 45° bends and they're all happy now. thanks for watching 🐸
Greetings from Canada, I have a crazy idea: You know how gardeners will run plastic hoses through their garden beds for drip irrigation? Replace that with PVC running along your property line, and have it connect to an Aquaponics habitat for the frogs, so all the tadpoles and poo naturally flows into a plant filtered area. Be sure to have the vertical PVC hotel line as an "upside-down lower case t shape" so that the frogs can rest below ground without necessarily being inside of the horizontal PVC flow line if they don't want to. As a bonus, this should also prove a perfect hunting ground for frog-eating snakes, and yes, I am aware of the Cane Toad, so what better a trap for them versus the more nimble tree frogs who can hop-out faster?
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. 🐸
I have tiny tree frogs that hide in my pots and garden beds. I'm gonna just stick a few pipes in the ground, add some lights and see if they like it. Thanks for the idea and tutorial. Northern California.
