Why Use Mosquito Fish to Control Mosquitoes?
A thousand Mosquito fish will consume an average of 250,000 to 300,000 Mosquito larvae per day, a huge dent in the mosquito population, before they ever hatch while the absence of chemical sprays allow natural predators like dragonflies, bats, and birds to attack the existing adult mosquitoes. They are extremely hardy and will tolerate and thrive in just about any standing water, regardless of pH or oxygen content. If water levels get low, they tend to multiply faster in the warm shallows. If you are located within a two hour drive of Happy Trails Aquatics, including central and south Florida, we can come to you and stock your ponds, golf courses, condo associations, housing associations, cattle ranches, equestrian establishments, chicken farms, pig farms, ponds, private homes, or anywhere you have standing water. We recommend heavily stocking your ponds on agricultural land, (doubling to 2,000 mosquito fish/per acre) , Eastern Equine Encephalitis is deadly to horses, infected with EEE
