salamanders Help!

[fcfrey]

Wish you had a picture of them but I would bet they are probably tadpoles (baby frogs). They usually hatch out by the hundreds from a jelly like mass of eggs near the edge.

Shocking would do them in but I would be more inclined to try to net them into a bucket of water and take them to a pond or creek somewhere. Either way --- dead or alive you need to get them out of your pool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadpole

[Poconos]

Probably really are salamanders. The pic of one in wikipedia looks similar to the ones I find in my pool without the color. Mine are a plain gray. Long, slender, with a couple tiny feet up front and a couple more in the rear. at least that's what I think mine are. As for getting rid of them, I just let them die and suck them up with the vacuum. Not that many.
Al

[carolynn]

I am pretty sure they are salamanders, not tadpoles. Where do they come from, and why? Would it help to change a chemical balance? Keep the chlorine high? or do we just have to live withit in the cold weather? At least we aren't swimming!!! Surely someone has overcome this problem. there are hundreds of them. If I run the polaris, I have to clean it out each day, and it still doesn't get them all.