Snake deterrent... will this work?

[oosik]

My house water supply is an entrapped spring. Four foot diameter concrete rings down to the bottom at around twenty feet. The spring boils up thru gravel at the bottom.

I get frogs in my spring. It use to bother me and I would go down, every so often, and dip them out.

This action got very old. Now the frogs are just left there and considered as added protein.

My "country water" goes very well with JD.

 

[Jstpssng]

My "country water" goes very well with JD.

I thought that you had a Kubota.

 

[Wagtail]

Could it be no mice because there are snakes?

Have you considered a wildlife ladder so they can climb out of the water? And a one-way flap in the cover so they can get out but not back in.

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I smile at these solutions, which are needed, but cost a lot.

Being retired Navy, I simply screwed some plastic 'gutter-guard' mesh to the inside side(s) of my horse water troughs to provide a "scramble net" for any critter that happened to fall in.

It's been ten years since doing this and I've yet to have to retrieve any drowned carcass after the first 'body'.

 

[oosik]

Jstpssng - Ha, ha - never thought about it that way. NO - you are correct, I DO own a Kubota. The only JD I own comes in a bottle.

 

[ponytug]

I smile at these solutions, which are needed, but cost a lot.

Being retired Navy, I simply screwed some plastic 'gutter-guard' mesh to the inside side(s) of my horse water troughs to provide a "scramble net" for any critter that happened to fall in.

It's been ten years since doing this and I've yet to have to retrieve any drowned carcass after the first 'body'.

We wrapped the hardware cloth (mesh) around a 2x4 to make a sort of floating off ramp, with the top of the 2x4 attached to a bit of wire at the edge of the trough so that it can float up and down. We haven't had a body since it was installed either.

I once saw a design for a watering "groove", that was basically a concrete footing with a shallow four inch wide groove in it, fed by a protected float valve at one end. It was said to be self cleaning, wildlife friendly, and easier on animals to drink from.

Perhaps it is a personal foible, but I guess that I am on the page that I expect wildlife to get into water troughs, but that nothing should get into water supplies.

All the best,

Peter

 

[maxadventure]

".... an ultraviolet purifier so her water is clean. "

how often are the bulbs changed? the spectrum burns out and they need to be replaced, check with the manufacture. At some point they are just purple lights and don't kill anymore.

if it were me, I'd put the effort into sealing out critters, dirt, etc.