Jim was up looking at our anacharis veggie filter and lamenting the thick
layer of stringy blanketweed forming above the anacharis (still water, sun,
nutrients). He pulled some off to see if the anacharis was survuvung. It
was! No blanketweed under the thick top layer.

Then it dawned on him. The blanketweed is grabbing lots of nutrients AND
shading the anacharis. It is just ugly. So Jim pulled off a soccer ball
sized mass of blanket weed. The anacharis shows well. All that blanket
weed is nutrient for our garden plants.

The koi seem to eat the blanketweed in our large pond. So why not let the
blanket weed thrive in the anacharis veggie filter? The celery and parrots
feather and hyacinth veggie filters will do thier root thing. So, now we
have a string algae/blanketweed farm.

Anybody see a drawback beyond aesthetics?

P


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