Thread 2942648

How long after the last chlorination would a pool be suitable for fish? A few of my neighbors have inground pools that they just let go stagnant until it's time to get it ready for next summer and I want to sneak around and throw some mosquitofish in there to control the larva

Mosquitos don't breed in the cold months where the pool would be closed.

>>2942651
They start breeding in March or so around here and people generally don't get their pools ready until May

>>2942648 (OP)
have you considered sneaking in and depositing choline into the pool (probably a gallon of liquid shock), rather than fish, you know, as a way to kill the mosquitos?

>>2942888
The fish are free, and self sustaining

>>2942648 (OP)
why don't you gift them some mosquito poison tablets for the pool instead? Look for "Bti" in the ingredients. Its used to genocide those pesky mosquitos so hard in my place that environmentalists are very scared as other animals need them as food but we do know now that it is very safe and very effective against mosquitos.
Even if the water in the pool is safe for the fish for a while, i think its a terrible environment for the them long term and is sorta cruel to be honest.

>>2943044
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>>2942902

And it's a 20,000 gallon aquarium with no predators. It beats the hell out of a pond full of bream and bass

>>2943074
>stagnant until it's time to get it ready for next summer
They'll die unless you want to fish them out every year and you are planting live animals on other peoples properties.
Just get them to use pesticide on their pools ffs. Its cleaner than poring chlorine so there is little excuse. Tell em that they will benefit from it too since they are the closes to the mosquito sources.

>>2942902
>>2943074
Mosquito dunks are $20 and you need to put them like once a month. You don’t just keep fish alive in an unheated pool with no oxygen source without tending to them and your neighbour will have to fish the dead ones out of the skimmers

>>2943150
b-but what bout le biological weapons like in my movies??

>>2943150
>You don’t just keep fish alive in an unheated pool with no oxygen source without tending to them and your neighbour will have to fish the dead ones out of the skimmers

Bruh, I have an old bath tub in the woods behind my house that I used to use to keep chicks and ducklets alive. I threw some mosquitofish in it years ago and they're still alive

They're like waterbears