Shrimp or copepods in pool?

[mgtfp]

Ok, I literally cringed when I opened that attachment!

That was probably close to my reaction when I opened that skimmer box...

Last week, I emptied my skimmer, then grabbed my outside towel, and while drying my hands one of these fell to the ground in front of my feet. Nice. They're not on the "can kill you" list, but their bite apparently still is more on the unpleasant side.

 

[YippeeSkippy]

They're not on the "can kill you" list, but their bite apparently still is more on the unpleasant side.

I swear I need a swoonin' southern lady gif for posts like this.....

 

[kellyfair]

Last week, I emptied my skimmer, then grabbed my outside towel, and while drying my hands one of these fell to the ground in front of my feet. Nice. They're not on the "can kill you" list, but their bite apparently still is more on the unpleasant side.

i beg to differ... heart attacks can kill you!

 

[kellyfair]

I swear I need a swoonin' southern lady gif for posts like this.....

 

[YippeeSkippy]

Oh lord.... I said "swoon"...not get epileptic!

 

[TikiParadise]

I used to love shrimp...

oof...me too.....

 

[IceShadow]

I like living up north where the bugs and reptiles come in normal sizes

 

[mguzzy]

This definitely matches what I've found, and they turn red or orange when they die.

Then serve with little toothpicks and cocktail sauce

 

[Brandon3S]

Lol this thread was an absolute treat to read! Never heard of prawns appearing in pools until this day. Pretty gross though..

 

[mguzzy]

Definitely more interesting than your typical dead gopher or lost moose

 

[mgtfp]

Pretty gross though..

No idea what you're talking about...




I'm with Mark:

Then serve with little toothpicks and cocktail sauce

You have to think fried rice, BBQ, garlic ...

 

[Newdude]

Skippy found two crawdads in our pool. We live in Georgia, ain't no crawdads here!

Fun fact I learned here last year when somebody had them way up north and I looked them up suprised is that there are hundreds of varieties and the bulk of the country has them. This is just 2 particular kinds. Come for the pools, learn about the crustaceans. This place is amazing
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[kellyfair]

OMG, that skimmer photo!

 

[mgtfp]

Aren't we all glad that we have enough chlorine in our pools.

 

[JJ_Tex]

Can you take a skimmer full of those to Leslies for our entertainment?


I would love to hear their reaction and solution. "Well, we have a new product called the Crustacean Buster 2000 that will clear this up for 3 easy payments of 49.95. That plus an Ozone generator will clear your pool right up."

 

[Newdude]

Can you take a skimmer full of those to Leslies for our entertainment

*Leslies scrambles to invent new parameter of Total Undisolved Solids and the $300 fix for it*

The rest of us just use a net for free.

 

[TheBigBlueFrog]

Ok, the infestation issue...

I thought they looked quite cool. Rather fish these out of the basket then one of those:

I get big wolf spiders in the skimmer all the time. Sometimes the big fishing spiders. Fewer with a couple of Frog Logs in the pool.

 

[TheBigBlueFrog]

"Well, we have a new product called the Crustacean Buster 2000 that will clear this up for 3 easy payments of 49.95. That plus an Ozone generator will clear your pool right up."

 

[mguzzy]

You have to think fried rice, BBQ, garlic ...

Wait.. I think I had that dish at an Aussie restaurant downtown... Little did I know it from whence it came

 

[TheBigBlueFrog]

Fun fact I learned here last year when somebody had them way up north and I looked them up suprised is that there are hundreds of varieties and the bulk of the country has them. This is just 2 particular kinds. Come for the pools, learn about the crustaceans. This place is amazing.

Yeah, crawdads are all over. We found them up in Virginia and North Georgia in those little mountain streams.