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What are you trying to chase away?

I'm not sure it would do much except entertain human guests.

Our 1/3,acre pond in NC usually has gators from about March/April to sometime in November. I also maintain about a 1/10th acre decorative pond with fountain. During the warmer months we usually have a few small juevenile gators in what I estimate to the 3 foot range. They still have yellow stripes on their tails. We get regular visiting gators in the 4-8 foot range. In general they don't bother anything or anybody. About a 5-footer got one of my two foot long grass carp last year, The grass carp fought pretty hard, but lost the battle.

The gators sure don't scare away birds like herons, egrets, etc. Those birds will get within about two feet of gators. The bigger gators do take occasional turtles. The smaller gators take of lot of frogs.

Ken