Why you ahould cover your makeup water container

[Anonymous]

I have my R/O water drain into a 55 gallon trash can which I keep in the basement. I never covered it because, well because I didn't think I had to.

Today I drained it completely because I needed all the water for a project. It's kind of dim in the basement, and I didn't notice these until I had filled the new tank with R/O water and looked down in the natural sunlight...

Never occured to me that Mosquitos would lay eggs in the house in my R/O water, but thinking now the environment was perfect. I'll be drilling a hole in the cover today for the line to run into :lol:

 

[Anonymous]

Good pic, Tracy. We had them in a dehumidifier once. course I think this is the mosq capitial of the world.

 

[Anonymous]

Good pic, Tracy. We had them in a dehumidifier once. course I think this is the mosq capitial of the world.

LOL I didn't take the picture, I just searched it. I knew immediately when I saw them what they were. Michigan has it's share of them too.

 

[Anonymous]

They'll lay eggs in saltwater too.

 

[Anonymous]

They'll lay eggs in saltwater too.

Really...great...when I added the salt to the tank I'd just filled the lil devils died and I figured they didn't like the full strength salinity.

sigh

 

[Anonymous]

They'll lay eggs in saltwater too.

Really...great...when I added the salt to the tank I'd just filled the lil devils died and I figured they didn't like the full strength salinity.

sigh

Your fish will love them!!

Mosquito larvae have an exoskeleton that is nearly impervious to saltwater. I find them in my Brine Shrimp tank all the time. The salinity in there is over 100ppt.

 

[Anonymous]

Pour a layer of oil over any standing water you don't want them breeding in. That little tail is like a snorkel. They can't get it through the oil, and suffocate. I know this doesn't help with your makeup water, but what the hey.

 

[Oceans Ferevh]

Why can't our fish and corals be that indistructable? :? ; why do all the nasty little a$$h@le bugs have all the advantages :evil:

 

[Anonymous]

Pour a layer of oil over any standing water you don't want them breeding in. That little tail is like a snorkel. They can't get it through the oil, and suffocate. I know this doesn't help with your makeup water, but what the hey.

:lol: Yeah bet that'd make the skimmer go nuts.

 

[wyw]

Lay eggs in saltwater? Wow, I never knew. The most ferocious mosquitoes I met were in Hong Kong. We lived next to a large green space and had both the city mosquitoes and green space mosquitoes. the green space ones not only attacked day and night but instead of biting once or twice would attack numerous times. (I'm embarrassed to admit I was pregnant and bored the first 6 months in HK spending most of my time looking up things like mosquitoes and cockroach eating spiders till all my reef equipment arrived from the states )

 

[Anonymous]

heh


mosquitos will even lay eggs in moist/wet soil


one of the things fish farmers do in ponds is spray a layer of vegetable oil over the pond, to suffocate mozzy larvae- i used to do it weekly on the farm i worked at

 

[Anonymous]

I used to have to treat my stock pond when I lived out in the boonies ever year with a nasty lil mosquito parasite :twisted:

 

[Anonymous]

My county give away mosq. fish (similar to guppy) for free, and they lived in the water tank outside without heater (get to mid 30F here in winter). So far, no West Nile virus in my neighborhood.

Motor oil works better, but I guess it is a bad idea consider how bad it is for everything else.

 

[tazdevil]

Around here, we can't go outside after 730pm unless you want to look like you have chicken pox. This has to be the worst I've ever seen mosquito's in my life. Outdoor bbq, they were lighting off the ribeye's-I assume to try to get the blood from the steaks. I say we declare all out no-holds-barred war on the mosquito, with gnats and black/deer/horseflies to be closely followed in a total destruction.

At least you'll be able to go outside then.

 

[Anonymous]

Stick feeder goldfish into any body of water you want to control mosquitoes in, well, not your make-up water, but you know what I mean.

 

[Anonymous]

My county give away mosq. fish (similar to guppy) for free, and they lived in the water tank outside without heater (get to mid 30F here in winter). So far, no West Nile virus in my neighborhood.

Motor oil works better, but I guess it is a bad idea consider how bad it is for everything else.

Mosquito Fish can be adapted to saltwater too.

 

[Anonymous]

Around here, we can't go outside after 730pm unless you want to look like you have chicken pox. This has to be the worst I've ever seen mosquito's in my life. Outdoor bbq, they were lighting off the ribeye's-I assume to try to get the blood from the steaks. I say we declare all out no-holds-barred war on the mosquito, with gnats and black/deer/horseflies to be closely followed in a total destruction.

At least you'll be able to go outside then.

Have you considered putting up a bat house?

 

[Anonymous]

>...Mosquito Fish can be adapted to saltwater too..

Yes, Guy. It is brackish fish, and I am sure can be acclaimed to saltwater gradually. However, my outdoor reservior is fresh water, and I am not going to put any of the mos. fish in my reef tank for that unique look...

 

[Anonymous]

LOL I'd guess not. They do devour those nasty red flatworms though.