Practical, legal ways to keep green iguanas off your Southwest Florida seawall, dock, and pool cage.
Quick answer: to keep iguanas off your seawall, remove attractants (fallen fruit, dense low plantings), install deterrents like metal sheeting or guards on seawalls and dock posts, fill in burrows, and have established iguanas humanely removed. Removal plus deterrence is what actually keeps them away.
Green iguanas bask on warm seawalls and docks and dig burrows into the soil behind them — which can undermine the wall over time. Canal cities like Cape Coral, Marco Island, and Punta Gorda see the heaviest pressure.
Smooth metal or PVC guards on seawall caps and dock posts make basking and climbing harder. Removing fruit trees and thinning dense ground cover takes away food and cover.
Active burrows should be cleared and filled — left alone they grow and weaken seawalls and pool-cage footers.
Deterrents help, but once iguanas are established you need humane removal first, handled per Florida regulations. See iguana removal cost, and our Cape Coral and Marco Island service.
A combination — removing food and cover, installing seawall/dock deterrents, filling burrows, and removing the iguanas already established.
Yes — green iguanas are an invasive species; we remove them humanely and per Florida regulations, identifying any protected native species first.
Yes — their burrows erode the soil behind seawalls and under pool cages, which is why filling burrows and removal matter.
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