Yay!!!New pool!!!

[BigDave]

It might help to keep any lights in or on the pool off so as to avoid being attractive at night.

[PoolDoc]

Right! And, remember REFLECTIONS of lights, count as lights. Bugs will fly towards the 'moon' in the pool, not that you can fix that one!

[May76]

I get a ton of bugs in my pool, have to clean them out every day. We have an actual streetlight as a security light in our backyard though. Shines right down on the pool at night. Guess we are pretty much stuck with the bugs unless we tell the utility co to shut the light off... :/

[BigDave]

@May76: can you cover the pool at night? 22' is a lot of cover to handle every day.

[PoolDoc]

Another option -- admittedly a bit of a handy-man trick -- is to make and mount a screen under the light, that would shadow the pool.

[May76]

Hmmm...might try looking into something like that, thanks!

[Watermom]

This what I use to cover my pool. Admittedly, there is no real convenient way to handle that big of a piece of vinyl, but this is easier than anything else I have used previously.

www.solarroller.com

[May76]

Weellll we've only actually used the cover once so far(anticipated rainstorm) which took both my husband and I...honestly I'd rather scoop out a ton of bugs every day then go thru that every night lol.

[jo3ponies]

I don't have a light near the pool but being rural I get a few of those, too. I don't mind those and clean them out with no trouble. The bugs I don't like are the ones that want to take up residence in my pool....water bugs. They are too fast to catch with the net and they bite you when you're swimming. Hoping the they are gone before the weather warms back up.

[jo3ponies]

New day....new reading...new problems. I tested this morning and my Chlorine is low, 1 on the test vial. Ph is 8.5...way too high. Water is clear and inviting but I don't know if it's safe to swim at this time. What should I do next? The temps are back in the 100s and I'm ready to swim!

Over the weekend I got tired of waiting for those silly 3" tablets to dissolve and poured some bottled Clorox in (2) to raise chorine levels and shock the water bugs.