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Hey everyone, and welcome to pool school where we keep your pool clean and clear by answering your questions about pool maintenance. My name is Matt and I am the founder of swimuniversity.com a website that teaches you how to take care of your pool or your hot tub. Today's question is, I have ducks in my pool and how do I get them out?

There are five ways that you can keep ducks from infesting your pool. 

The first thing you can do is invest in a solar cover. This is that bubble wrap material that you put on top of the water that actually helps to keep the heat in your pool, but ducks won't land on it and they'll keep the ducks out of your pool as long as you use the solar cover during the day.

The second thing you can do is use an automatic pool cleaner. This can be a robotic pool cleaner or a suction side pool cleaner, or like a Polaris pressure-side pool cleaner. Something that is constantly moving around your pool. And keeping the ducks at Bay. They're like, I don't want to be involved with whatever's floating around in that pool and they stay away.

The third thing you can do is just put some inflatable toys in the water. Specifically, there are two types that I recommend. One, there's this thing called a dancing dolphin and what it is, it's a dolphin that stands upright in the pool. It's inflatable, but the bottom has a little weight on it, so the actual inflatable stands upright and it sort of acts as a scarecrow in your pool.

The other inflatable I recommend is an alligator. Big old green alligator that floats in your pool. Ducks will stay away from that.

The fourth thing you can do, and you may already have one, is you can get a dog. If you let your dog out into the backyard where your pool is, they will chase the ducks away. that is an easy solution. And if you have a dog just kind of hanging out in the backyard at all times, just guarding your pool, then you're not going to have a problem with ducks.

And finally, the fifth thing you can do is there's actually a chemical that you can buy and put into your water.  it's called duck off. Yes. Like duck off.  so what this chemical actually does is it breaks the surface tension of the water. 

So when a duck lands on the pool surface to float, it will actually sink. It'll drop into the water and it won't be able to float on the surface of your pool. And this chemical is real and it's called duck off. And you might be able to find it at your local pool store or you can check online. 

So that's it. That's five ways to keep ducks away from your swimming pool, to keep that duck poop out of your water, which is very, very disgusting.

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