How to kill mosquitoe larva in my backyard pond???

Question

We just opened up our outside pond. But now I find a lot of mosquitoe larva in it. Will fish help kill these guys because I don't want a home for mosquitoes.

I have added four fish in the pond today. Will these disk kill the fish? And also the water isn't moving, should I get the waterfall moving?

Answer 1

Your fish will eat some of them
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Answer 2

Kill Mosquito Larvae In Pond

Answer 3

Fish will eat a lot of them, as will frogs and dragonflies, but you are going to need more help than that.

There are a couple of effective methods:
1)You can drain it.
2)Get some of those little round larvae killers available at Home Depot, etc, and use them.

Most importantly, keep your grass mowed. The longer you let it get, the more problem you will have with mosquitoes. If your pond is far from the house, put a Mosquito Magnet or Mosquito Deleto or similar product between your house and the pond.

Good luck. I hate moquitoes.

Answer 4

Maybe you could put some small fish that will eat the larvae in your pond, tadpoles also eat larvae, I think. Or you can use enzyme? I am not sure but enzymes can be used as pesticides. The enzyme I meant is not those that found in your body, but is those which made from organic waste, it's eco-friendly. These enzyme once help a seriously polluted lake to become unpolluted again.

Answer 5

Mosquitos will not hatch in moving water. Do you have a pond pump in it? That or you can pour vegetable oil in the water. They can't escape through the oil.

Edit to Add: Yes definately get your waterfall moving. I have a pond as well with a waterfall and I don't have any issue with mosquitos.
Good Luck!!

Answer 6

Ask the pet shop for frog pond fish. They will eat the mosquito larvae, but leave the tadpoles alone. Pacific blue eye is the only one of these species that I can think of right now. (I'm in Australia.)

Answer 7

you can go to vector control in most communities and they will give you a bag of mosquito eater fish, these are guppies that are engineered to feed on mosquito larvae, vector control uses these fish to control larvae in ponds, run offs and marsh area's of the cities they operate in.

Answer 8

Get the waterfall going. That will hold down the larva population and will aerate the water so your mosquito eating fish can survive.

Answer 9

Some fish and tadpoles will eat larva. The traditional treatment is a thin layer of oil on the water. The "surface tension" changes and larva cannot breathe through the thin layer of oil. I expect some kind of environmental friendly oil, such as corn oil, olive oil, etc. would also work but be more costly.

Answer 10

They sell mosquito eating fish. Mosquitos only occur in water that isnt moving so yes get the waterfall going.