Phyllis and Jim Hurley wrote:
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


dont see why not I grow string algae as a filter medium and for Koi
kibble in fact last year I had
no string algae and you should have seen the reaction I got when I asked
for it at the LFS ;-)
personaly I think it looks kinda neat waving in the currents of ;the
pond. much better than peas soup :-)
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John Rutz
Z5 New Mexico
If it can't be fixed with bailing wire or duct tape
its not worth fixing

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