Hello All,
I wasn't sure which forum to post this under. First-year owning a pool and you have been super helpful for my needs. (Full Details About my pool here). My numbers are where they should be, water is perfectly clear, we've been swimming in the pool very frequently. Pool is currently still open.
Twice in the past month, overnight, I've woken up to thousands of dead mosquitoes in my pool. There are so many that they form a dark black ring around the entire thing. I do not believe they are breeding in it. I have never seen a larva (and know what they look like). I have never even seen more than a few in the air. The pool will be completely clean the night before and then boom - it's like Mosquito genocide. I assume they are breeding somewhere else and then migrating to my pool - but - cleaning them is a pain.
Cleaning it takes way longer than normal. The Skimmer doesn't seem to pull them in at all and they never get pulled under the water's surface, even if they reach the skimmer. They also mostly seem to clump around the walls of the pool, which there are so many, it creates a black ring around the whole thing.
Using a skimmer basket manually is how I've been dealing with (just like anything else), but because of the sheer mass of dead mosquitos, if you disturb them at all in the wrong way, a clump of like 200 mosquitoes will spread very quickly into the center of the pool making it really really hard to clean.
My questions:
1) Is this normal?
2) Is there something I should be doing to prevent this?
3) Is there any tactic to cleaning them - maybe something to dissolve them or some tool that I don't know about that helps cleaning along the walls of the pool preventing them from spreading when you start creating waves from the skimmer basket? Maybe some cleaner robot I don't know about?
Thanks for any insight. I am guessing this is normal.
(If this double posts - I apologize, I was getting errors in chrome when trying to post).
I wasn't sure which forum to post this under. First-year owning a pool and you have been super helpful for my needs. (Full Details About my pool here). My numbers are where they should be, water is perfectly clear, we've been swimming in the pool very frequently. Pool is currently still open.
Twice in the past month, overnight, I've woken up to thousands of dead mosquitoes in my pool. There are so many that they form a dark black ring around the entire thing. I do not believe they are breeding in it. I have never seen a larva (and know what they look like). I have never even seen more than a few in the air. The pool will be completely clean the night before and then boom - it's like Mosquito genocide. I assume they are breeding somewhere else and then migrating to my pool - but - cleaning them is a pain.
Cleaning it takes way longer than normal. The Skimmer doesn't seem to pull them in at all and they never get pulled under the water's surface, even if they reach the skimmer. They also mostly seem to clump around the walls of the pool, which there are so many, it creates a black ring around the whole thing.
Using a skimmer basket manually is how I've been dealing with (just like anything else), but because of the sheer mass of dead mosquitos, if you disturb them at all in the wrong way, a clump of like 200 mosquitoes will spread very quickly into the center of the pool making it really really hard to clean.
My questions:
1) Is this normal?
2) Is there something I should be doing to prevent this?
3) Is there any tactic to cleaning them - maybe something to dissolve them or some tool that I don't know about that helps cleaning along the walls of the pool preventing them from spreading when you start creating waves from the skimmer basket? Maybe some cleaner robot I don't know about?
Thanks for any insight. I am guessing this is normal.
(If this double posts - I apologize, I was getting errors in chrome when trying to post).
Have you done a walk about in your yard to see where they are breeding? Are there any homes/yards/pools in the area that are not being cared for so have turned into "ponds"?
(who only thought she had a mosquito problem)
