Zebra Muscles?

We have plenty of zebra muscles, I doubt they have anything to do with hard scum. They have drastically changed my lake in just about a decade. They are basically covering anything hard that is in the water, most of my lake is rock bottom and every single square inch of rock was covered. The visibility of the lake vastly increased but that allows more light to reach the milfoil. Sharp buggers, we have had them long enough that some shore areas are starting to form sand from the shells of the dead ones. I noticed a few zebra muscles on some of the weeds at the sandbar at GL, I don't know if they are completely infested at this point but if not it probably won't be long.

wasn't technically the 'bottom' of freighters. it was the ballasts. But basically the same thing.

We had them bad in our lake but they released some type of fish that eats them and ive noticed far less the past few years. They used to be all over any weeds you pulled up and all over the pier poles and bottom on the pontoon.

Has anybody had any issues with them getting into their cooling system, and if so what did you do to get rid of them? Is it common to get into cooling systems or is that a longshot?

I went to a slalom competition, and all boats used were required to flush their fresh water cooling systems with bleach. The owner of the private ski lake, who is also the local Nautique dealer, claims that the larvae can survive in the cooling system. Almost all lakes that our area have the little bastards. I've always got cuts on my feet, even though I try to wear water shoes whenever possible.

eric lavine wrote: Blame this one on Kristoff, they came over on the bottem of container ships

Sure sure Mr Lavine... Blame it on Kristof or the Belgians for that matter...
We can't help it we like them so much... With fries and a good glass of beer!

LOL Eric... Since it's also a Belgian beer now, I can appreciate one from time to time

Hey Steve, if your worried about looks try the speedo slides that all the soccer players wear. They work pretty good in the water, not so dorky looking and they float! I wear them all the time and as long as your not running around in the water they generally stay on. Like any other "new" shoe, I sometimes get blisters on the top of my feet until either the slides or my feet get "broken in" not sure which it is...