Mosquitoes & Horse troughs

We live in Florida and the mosquitoes are very bad this year. Does anyone know if you can put something in the horses' water buckets and horse trough in order to keep the mosquitoes from breeding there? We dump and clean on a regular basis, but still seem to have a problem with mosquito larvae.

Thank you....

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Permalink Reply by Geoffrey Pannell on July 26, 2010 at 5:59pm

Hi Carol & Ben, We have a problem with mossies too, so we put goldfish in the troughs. They are really good at keeping the mossie larvae and alge at bay! Cheers Geoffrey

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Permalink Reply by Carol & Ken Blevins on July 29, 2010 at 3:25pm

Thanks to you both for your input. I had thought of a small amount of clorox since they recommend that if we lose water during hurricanes - pool tabs sound like a good idea. I hadn't thought of goldfish though. Would you have to feed them or would larvae and algae suffice?