Nasty Black Pool Inherited from Home Purchase
- Thread starter awtrizzle
- Start date
- Jun 12, 2011
- 3,769
- Pool Size
- 19500
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pureline Crystal Pure 60,000
I went back and looked at your "Before" pictures. It makes it hard to believe that it's the same water in the pool.
Your story should serve to encourage others who doubt that it can be done.
Congratulations on your beautiful sparkling pool.
Your story should serve to encourage others who doubt that it can be done.
Congratulations on your beautiful sparkling pool.
Yeah I'm working on putting together a collage to post on the newbies page to give them some hope.
I'm also upset that I never figured out what kind of bugs those were. They were the craziest thing I've ever seen.
- Jun 12, 2011
- 3,769
- Pool Size
- 19500
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pureline Crystal Pure 60,000
As I look closely at your avatar I think it looks like the Creature is now smiling.
Did they kind of look like crickets? I had some hideous cricket looking things in my pool the spring before TFP. Actual nasty looking bugs rather than the "light framed" bugs you usually see in water like the skimmer things and the back swimmer things.
Hideous. Like a mole cricket. Blech.
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Ugh. I can't believe I just let myself Google that. I'm pretty sure what I had in my pool living in the muck on the bottom was hundreds of nasty disgusting hideously ugly mole crickets.
Hideous. Like a mole cricket. Blech.
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Ugh. I can't believe I just let myself Google that. I'm pretty sure what I had in my pool living in the muck on the bottom was hundreds of nasty disgusting hideously ugly mole crickets.
I think those are what it was. Their head wasn't that big but it looked almost exactly like those nasty things.
Also Google turned this up. I was LOLing.
Also Google turned this up. I was LOLing.
- May 23, 2015
- 24,674
- Pool Size
- 16000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
OK, I live in Arizona and we have some pretty freaky critters here (some being fairly poisonous too) and I have to say - what circle of Hades did those mole-crickets crawl out from?!?!?! Holy cannoli, if my pool were infested with those, I think I'd just dynamite the pool, burn the house down, pack the family in the car and run for my life!!!
I have not posted to this thread yet, but I looked at the first pool image posted and the sparkly clean pool and all I have to say is - WOW, JOB WELL DONE! Your pool looks amazing now and I love your backyard. Even the concrete decking looks 100% better than when you started. You should feel very proud of yourself and I would make windowed picture frame with the before and after shots and hang it near the pool for all people to see!!
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But the more important question is this - after roasting them on the BBQ, do they go better with garlic-butter, honey-mustard or hot sauce....
I have not posted to this thread yet, but I looked at the first pool image posted and the sparkly clean pool and all I have to say is - WOW, JOB WELL DONE! Your pool looks amazing now and I love your backyard. Even the concrete decking looks 100% better than when you started. You should feel very proud of yourself and I would make windowed picture frame with the before and after shots and hang it near the pool for all people to see!!
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Apparently they are harmless
But the more important question is this - after roasting them on the BBQ, do they go better with garlic-butter, honey-mustard or hot sauce....
- May 23, 2015
- 24,674
- Pool Size
- 16000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
funny you mention BBQ...
I love Thai food.....yummy, Green Curry Crickets with mango-coconut rice....
Skitch
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If we had this conversation while my pool was dirty I would have been upset with you guys for poking fun of my bug pond.
It's all behind me now and I think it's hilarious!!!
It's all behind me now and I think it's hilarious!!!
Those above are mole crickets but I did some googling and dragonfly nymphs are what was in my pool.
Thank you so much for finally answering my question. There was probably 50 in my pool. When it was black I would hit them with the flashlight beam at night and they would scurry off to the bottom. I sworn it was some sort of alien in my pool.
Thank you so much for finally answering my question. There was probably 50 in my pool. When it was black I would hit them with the flashlight beam at night and they would scurry off to the bottom. I sworn it was some sort of alien in my pool.
LOL! This is great! Somebody early on probably said you would look back and laugh. I'm not going to speculate what you might have said back! :-D
After that truly horrifying picture I can't even bring myself to Google "dragonfly nymphs". I'll just take your word for it. Thank God neither one of us has to deal with that ever again!
Thank you TFP!
Thank you TFP!
