How Mosquito Fish Work

If you foreclose on a house, and it has a pool, and the house stays vacant for more than a few weeks, then you will have a problem: the pool becomes a giant mosquito breeding ground. It turns out there is a fish called the mosquito fish that can solve this problem for a couple of bucks:

For Mortgages Underwater, Help Swims In

From the article:

The mosquito fish is well suited for a prolonged housing slump. Hardy creatures with big appetites, they can survive in oxygen-depleted swimming pools for many months, eating up to 500 larvae a day and giving birth to 60 fry a month. That can save environmental crews from having to repeatedly spray pesticides in the pools while the houses grind through the foreclosure process…

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