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Paul wrote:

[...]

You will need to protect you plants from koi as they like to dine
on
them.

I have little experience in the maintennance side--I just build 'em
;/

Surely koi don't eat all plants?
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My koi don't eat water iris, umbrella palm, water lilies, black taro,
parrots feather or water bamboo. They do eat anacharis, duckweed,
the
roots
of water lettuce and water hyacinth and hornwart "sometimes."
Experiment,
as there are plants they don't eat. The biggest koi/plant problem
I've
had
was their rooting the plants out of their pots.

Aye.

We do put lettuce and hyacinth in the upper pond where there are no
fish....

I've not paid, alas, that much attention to aquatic plants: my forte
is
dirt
and stone ;-)
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ah
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I put the plants they like to eat in the settling tank. They grow into
monsters in this tank! I mean water lettuce larger than dinner plates
around...

Oh!

Bigest I've seen have leaves the diameter of a golf ball!

Largest pond I've done was 25'x18'x5'(deep) . . . not enough room for
much.
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ah
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I agree. That's a mere puddle. You really need to dig a larger pond. :-)
--
Carol.... the frugal ponder...
"Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway."
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