I just shocked the pool due to overfilling it and got all the levels back to normal. This AM I found a small mouse in the skimmer dead. Do I shock again or leave it alone?
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I would shock it just because I do not want any mouse cooties in my pool. Ewwwww We had a bat one time. I shocked for that.
Kim
Kim
I found one in my skimmer... well I found about 1 per day in my pool for about a week. They must have been thirsty. Usually I would catch them the morning after they fell in, in the skimmer. One day I didn't catch it until the evening after a hot day. So needless to say, when I opened the skimmer cover, it didn't smell like roses. I removed the mouse and put about a cup of bleach directly into the skimmer while the pump was off. I used a toilet brush to scrub the bottom, sides, lid of the skimmer. I then checked the FC and pH as I do daily later in the evening when the pump was running and noticed no difference from a normal evening test and bumped it to 7 FC instead of my normal 5-6 overnight. No issues since.
I don't worry about it. There are tons of germs from all kinds of sources that regularly enter the pool - that's why we use chlorine in the first place.
I did run across this from the CDC though: If the CDC says "don't worry about it" then you know it's not big deal, lol. They say 2 ppm chlorine will do the trick and I think we all use more than that on a regular basis.
For what it's worth I get about 3 mice a month in my pool and my chlorine never drops below 3.5.
I did run across this from the CDC though: If the CDC says "don't worry about it" then you know it's not big deal, lol. They say 2 ppm chlorine will do the trick and I think we all use more than that on a regular basis.
For what it's worth I get about 3 mice a month in my pool and my chlorine never drops below 3.5.
I've never seen a mouse in my skimmer-- lizards, frogs and sholderless critters yup.
Said the wrong thing when I said Shock. I should have said I raised my FC to SLAM level for the night and let it drift down with sun/time.
Kim
Kim
Semantics Schmantics. If I'm not mistaken, Shock IS the correct term as the first thing in SLAM. Since you had no reason to slam, shocking was appropriate.
Shock=scare the bacteria out of the pool with an army of little chlorine monsters, that yell: I am so alkaline I will scare the living acid out of you
Oh I am more than 2 ppm regularly, mostly around 3-5 ppm, I also do tablets with BBB as I get a lot of rain and get to drain the pool and lose CYA. I guess I am good then.
I get 3 or 4 per season average for the 50 years I have been running a pool in the same location (on the edge of a hay field). I have never done anything other than throw the corpse back in the field it came from.
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