I have a backyard liner pond approx 12x6. I started out with 5 plants and now they have multiplied and now cover the entire pond. My question is can you have too many and is it harmful to the koi?
Water Hyacinths
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Howard
The only danger of having them cover the entire water surface is oxygen depletion. We don't know enough about your pond to really say. But to be safe I would remove enough to get a few feet of open water. You can compost sell or give them away.
I agree with keeping some surface open for various reasons such as gas exchange, getting the fish some Sun, and of course, so you can see the fish!
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good gosh you lucky devil my koi destroy them .I need to learn from you how to make my koi behave . :cheerful: see if you can put some of it on craigslist people will be happy to pick it up .I would love it if mine grew like that but storm we had washed it out of the filter and aggie destroyed it .I did that with my plants last year I advertised on craigslist all the plants in my stock tanks for free and meant a few ponders here and shared stories .It was fun :cheerful:
:trampolin: Good golly I done think she's gone insane :trampolin:sissy said:
While you're at it, do you think you can turn the sky red and make water flow uphill? Those should be easy after training a koi!
I need some plants! If you bag and box some I will pay postage.
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I sure can but still can't train my koi :fingersx:
waynefrcan
19 years ponding and hopefully 4 more!
Ya and at $30 a plant it's expensive vegetable food for the fish.
Nan,
I have two totes filled with them but they are very big with large roots. Wont get too many in a box and could be expensive to ship 2 day mail.???
I have two totes filled with them but they are very big with large roots. Wont get too many in a box and could be expensive to ship 2 day mail.???
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You should be able to trim off much of what you have. Just a few inches past the growing tip and what roots are attached to it.njbill said:
Are you referring to hyacinths? Man and I thought they were outrageously priced here at $5 a plant! Time for you to learn the secret art of raising your own hyacinths indoors during the Winter...waynefrcan said:
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No the water lilies.
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WHAT water lillies? :dunno:
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waynefrcan
19 years ponding and hopefully 4 more!
Water lillies are at $30-$35 a plant here [expensive veggie food for koi].
I picked up 2 each of small hyacinth and water lettuce a few weeks back I think around 5-6 bucks each. I put them in plastic mesh baskets in my biofalls and they are branching off like crazy. When they start filling up the basket to much I trim a section off and toss it in the pond. Not over taking the pond yet but seems like every few days...at least once a week I'm tossing in a new clump of hyacinth from the falls baskets. The water lettuce is multiplying more slowly but still have trimmed a couple times. Might have to post an add myself at some point this summer.