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Hello! I'm totally new to this forum but I'm happy I found it, I really hope someone knowledgeable about outdoor frog keeping can help me...My mom has a swimming pool that has been sitting untreated over winter, with about 2-3.5 ft of water in it. We were surprised and happy to hear a frog chirping quite loudly every night from the pool...the pool seems to be a perfect little habitat for the frogs. But my mom wants to fill up the pool this summer, which of course implies treating the water with chemicals and chlorine. What I really would like is to build my own small pond and transfer them, but we have raccoons which would eat them right away if they weren't able to swim deep enough. If I can find a nearby pond, will it be ok to catch them and relocate them? Is there a chance the chlorine won't kill them? I assume there will be tadpoles in the pool, I did see at least one female frog(caught him and her quite by accident in the pool net) so what should I do with the tadpoles?? I really don't want to move them but I am afraid the pool being chlorinated will not be frog-friendly.Thank you so much in advance for any advice!

I would give your local fish and wildlife service a call. It would be a shame to move them and have them get eaten by coons. They may be able to take some.
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Hi, thanks for the reply! I would think that they would be ok in the pool, there were some last year that we heard but never saw. However, since I found two dead, I was really worried. The live ones were just clinging to the side of the pool, in the middle of the day even. Anyway thanks!

You can relocate them to a pond nearby or raise them in your own homemade pool or aquarium. The pool chemicals will kill them for sure. All frogs are really sensitive to chemicals for some reason.