Hi..

Chris Barnes wrote:

[...pond: 180 x 50 (widest) x 25' deep - and holy duckweed...]

Q1: how hard is it to transplant duck weed and get it to "take hold" in
a pond this size?

Hmm.., it might depend on swell, stocking - and the availability of plant
crowded shallow water zones..

Would I need a 55 gal barrel of the stuff, or just a
5 gal bucket?

Well just a single one duckweed plant should be able to conquer such a
pond..

Q2: if duckweed were introduced to this pond, would it completely take
over this pond the way it does small "cow tanks"?

Will depend on several different factors..

This is NOT something we would want.

Well duckweed is known to be an epidemical weed..

Basically, we would want enough that it would provide a
reliable food source

Of course - for duckweed eaters..

- but not so much that it would choke out everything else
- there are lily pads & quite a few fish (catfish, bass,
& bream) stocked in the pond.

Bream == Abramis brama..?

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Marco