"Hal" wrote in message
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On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:56:38 CST, "Reel McKoi"
wrote:

I use them for shade and love the flowers.

I enjoyed mine too and if they helped cool the pond, I'm really glad
because my pond water still reached close to 90F at times.

The water lilies shade and help keep the water cooler. Just stick your hand
under one in a summer day and you'll see what O mean. Last summer was a
doozy here. Days of 100+ heat and humidity. You could easily feel the
difference under the lilies. That's where the fish hung out until sundown.
Then they all be out looking for food and swimming around.


What's
your favorite?

I have a mix of pond plants. The more the merrier.......

I usually do too, but find the most of the floaters eventually cover
the bottom with debris of some sort, or perhaps they just covered the
bottom and allowed the debris to be out of sight until I moved the
plants and cleaned. I suppose I was hoping for a magic plant that
does wonders. Maybe next year??

There are no magic plants. I wish there were. All drop leaves or bits of
this-and-that. It mixes with the fish feces and forms a mulm on the bottom.
Apparently if you have a bottom drain at the lowest point it sucks all this
stuff out. But because we have to drain the ponds yearly now to remove the
excess fry, we just use the wet-dry vac and suck it out. It goes into the
flower beds surrounding the ponds.
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RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
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