Blood worms are breeding in my indoor pond!

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They go from the worm stage to the fly stage and I have tried the anti-mosquito dunks and they haven't worked, so what Can I do to kill them off but is still fish safe? I was thinking something like prazi-pro or other ant parasitic could work? The blood worms when larva coat themselves in a coating of sediment and goo while they move around on submerged hard surfaces.

Any ideas?
 
Maybe get a swarm of feeder minnows to eat them all?
 
3 Leiarius pictus's, 1 Leiarius marmoratus(temporary adoption), 1 TSN x Leiarius Hybrid, 1 oscar, 3 small koi, 2 goldfish, 3 Megalodoras uranoscopus, 1 black ghost knife.
So most don't have scales and one of the koi has only some scales due to genetics.
 
I also have 15 to 20 guppies in the same pond that the big fish feed on once and a while and the guppies don't even make a dent in the blood worms especially sense most of the time the worms are coated in the sediment and slime capsule that keeps their blood red bodies out of sight while they're on the move.
 
nope, the carp can tolerate temps in a range of freezing to low 90's of water temp so a pond temp of 74f is perfect for everyone, I could even turn it up to 84f and everyone would just grow faster sinceI keep the dissolved oxygen in my pond med to high.
 
Guppy seem to act the same to me. I have had both and they seem to breed together too. so Mine I guess are somewhat hybrids.
 
Add some way of surface agitation/flow (powerheads, fountains, waterfalls, whatever you can think of) Mosquitoes only breed in stagnant, low flow waters.
 
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