Anyone ever use artificial plants in their pond? I tried a few real plants
and they just made the water really dark green after just three days. I had
a little Anchors and a dwarf cattail and a pickerel rush (blue).

I understand that the cattail and the pickeral rush are marginals and I did
have them in six inches of water and no leaves fell off of either of them to
make the water green. The anacharis was submerged as well.

Does anyone have any logical explanation as to why my water went dark green?