SARASOTA COUNTY - The increase in the number of houses in foreclosure on the Suncoast has been a boom for one pesky species.  In addition to dashed dreams and economic hardship for the owners, it can also mean big problems for the neighbors.

The people who live in the Indian Beach Sapphire Shores neighborhood are slapping and scratching since one house went on sale for $1.6 million dollars about a year and a half ago.  Since then, the housing market crashed and it's stood empty and abandoned ever since, and the once-sparkling swimming pool now looks more like a mosquito breeding swamp.

Dave Bagaus lives next door and Dave Braum lives across the street.  They say nobody's been taking care of the property for the past year and a half and the abandoned pool is a health hazard.  "You can see how dirty it is.  I've seen pea soup less green."

All kinds of things are swimming around in there.  "What is that growing over there?  It appears to be palm fronds.  Looks like a branch.  There's another mosquito (slap, slap), all sorts of algae."

"It's disgusting.  There's no excuse for that."

And these neighbors say the mosquitoes that are born there, don't stay there;  They move around the neighborhood. 

"You can see all that stuff that's on the surface moving around.  Baby mosquitoes."

We took the problem to Sarasota County Mosquito Control.  They say they can't lower gas prices, but they can eliminate the mosquitoes from this pool.  Little fish will do the job.  "These are the mosquito fish...an inch and a half long," says Sarasota County Environmental Specialist Chris Oliver.

You won't need many.  "For a pool, 15 to 20...for the right area."  And they're environmentally friendly.  "We don't use any chemicals, it's self sustaining.  Once you put them in, you don't have to go back.  The problem is taken care of," says Mosquito Control's Eric Schreibar.

Of course, don't put them in a chlorinated pool.  The one in Sapphire Shores hasn't been chlorinated in more than a year.