Mosquitos are killing me

in bed, cant sleap, mosquitos are biting me, us,,,, dont want to spray doom, because of my 6 tanks in the house... advice on keeping the mozzies away please guys

 

The same as heat problems in your tanks....
Put a desk or oscillation fan on a dresser or table blowing air over you.
Mosquitoes don't like flying in a breeze, and will choose someone else to pester.

 

Or get rubbing mosquito repellent

 

lol mosquitos here seems to be atracted to peaceful sleep

 

Mosquito nets from Cape Union Mart

 

Sleep with a fan on (at least until you fall asleep). I have my bedroom fan on a 2hr timer.

Their under-developed wings don't allow them to function if there is a breeze. So they rather find someone else or wait it out.

Chin up, its almost winter... then they bugger off anyways.

 

Think i must buy a fan, and see how it goes

 

Get an electronic zap machine with a uv light. It will kill any flying insects

 

get some of those cheap burning lanterns at spar, fill 50 50 citronella oil parafin. i burn them outside our lodge in the summer months, 10 of them over 80meter by 20 meters. no mozzies. also mozzie coils work, i burn one in my room with 7 tanks. no problems. also during the day they hide in shade behind curtains and so on, just to indicate were you can concentrate a squirt of doom now and then. if possible find the source and introduce some local fish or drain.

 

Studies have proven that Black/Blue light bug zappers are ineffective against mosquitos.
They kill significant numbers of beneficial insects though, which is a problem.
Mosquitos are attracted the the CO2 we exhale and not UV light.

 

Another little known fact, mosquito coils and machines only serve to repel mosquitos, and/or mask mask our CO2 emissions. They don't kill mosquitos.

I'm a little obsessed because I really struggled at one point! :laugh:

 

got a spare,,, huge bin, if it wasn't that mosquito fish are black listed, i would have set up a small pond outside my bedroom window in the bin, and chuck a few mosquito fish in it...

But ja, blacklisted..

 

What you could do is set up a basic yeast reactor exactly like you would for a low tech custom DIY CO2 system in a planted tank....
The only difference being instead of routing the line into a tank, you send it into a makeshift mozzie trap (using a cut off inverted plastic coke bottle).

The yeast reactor generates CO2, the mozzies are attracted, and trapped. Kill them, feed to fish. The circle of life.
Tip.... Keep the yeast reactor system far away from your room... otherwise you're inviting them in :laugh:

 

Almost threw out the empty coke bottle lol, will dig and see weather there are still more yeast, i know here is brown sugar... talking about DIY CO2 reactor, i might try and build my own.

 

I use the uv zap electrocuter ,I guess the mozzies I clean out from the dead tray flew in there by mistake

 

Read my post again. I said ineffective, not completely useless.

 

Worst case scenario its a cool project!