Pools and pets are an uneasy mix; and skunks, skinks, ducks, dogs, biting bugs, and swimming snakes weren't the pool visitors most owners expected.
I have a million tadpoles on my pool cover. I have drained as much water as possible off of it. What do you guys do? I hate to kill them, but then...
Is the surface tension on a saltwater pool different than a saltless pool? The reason I ask is that Im seeing alot of dead flies and white flies in...
Some of you may know that I still do some local service work for larger commercial pools. Today, my older son and I were delivering some equipment,...
My wife and I moved into our house about 1 1/2 years ago. Two reasons we bought it. Our gandaughter lives across the street and there is a pool in...
Greeting: After a trip out of state for a few weeks, when returning the other day I was shocked to find our swimming pool turning green and even...
Has anyone had a problem with large spiders living near the pool? These are very strange looking--reddish-pink bodies and they crawl in and out of...
I saw in another thread that someone was thinking about trying this stuff. Any results? Anyone else here ever used it? I have been thinking about...
Hi folks. Just took the cover off the pool today! To my suprise the pool has millions of mosquito larvae. Now this is a 24' above ground pool! I am...
Everytime it rains, my inground pool gets loaded with worms. Hundreds of them. It's happenning consistently this year, but hasn't happened to this...
The last 2 mornings I found a little package on the top step of my IG pool. :eek: Looks about "cat size". I'm concerned that I this is some...
I'm a little sad to see all the old stuff lost so I came back to re-tell my favorite story from this board. Maybe the original poster can fill in the...
we have awful horse flies. they are never around it seems until the kids get in the pool. as soon as everybody gets wet out they come, landing on...
I noticed a lot of bird poop on the edge and in the pool over the past few weeks and last night I discovered why. It seems the Grackels think the...
We live on a relatively small lot that is backed up to some woods. Being a new pool owner I'm concerned about mosquito control. We've always had a...
Just wondering if anyone else is having problems with fire ants. We are in south central Texas. After every rain they come out in force with the...
Speaking of water fleas, I have them too with a vengeance! I read some posts and shocked the pool. they died and it's a week later and now they're...
it was only in there for a few minutes. my chlorine level is a little above recommended level. think it's ok to swim??
After only have my 24 ft doughboy for 3 weeks I'm haveing a huge problem with water bugs. Actually I don't know the real name for them. We can net...
Finally got my pool water clear and clean thanks to this forum and yesterday a neighbors dog decided to take a swim and climb out over the edge...
Okay, I have a pair of ducks that swam on my tarp before I removed it and now have made a home in my pool. I do not know what to do to keep them...
I would love to spend time around the pool outside in the evening however we're next to some wetlands and there are tons of mosquitos and other pests...
I have bees everywhere! They are all over the drain, the noodles, anything bright and colorful, and there are HUNDREDS!! Every time we want to...
I have a terrible dead animal smell and flies in the grass next to my pool. It has been there for 3 days now and is so horrible that no one can sit...
Had a baby turkey in my skimmer the other day when I opened the pool. It was about 10 inches tall. I opened the top and thought what the heck is...
I'm sure this has been asked a million times, but all of the old posts are gone. I even hoped Google had cached some of the old posts, but I couldn't...
Each night for the past three weeks, a bat has visited our pool at 845pm, like clockwork. He/she swoops down from the surrounding brush and trees,...
So... in the last week I've had to fish 3 mice out of my pool.... One of them I "rescued" as it was still alive and swimming for dear life, and...
My two Dobbies won't go in the pool - on their own. That's a good thing but they do run around it like nuts chasing each other. The other day one of...
There was a pretty turtle in our pool today. I have no idea where it came from but it was yellow and black and about 8 inches from the front to the...
I picked up a 5 lb bag of CYA at my local pool store to raise the level in my pool and stupidly set it where the dogs could reach it. They tore open...
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