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1st Pond cleaning today....Plant request
I had half filled the huge lugged home plastic pool with some pond
water and some tap with declor. I put the plants in there. The first (tamed) fish, swam into the bucket, the second (young one i decided to keep for some insane reason) was easy to catch. But the large female....i would like to find a better way to do this next year. When i finally got her, she was in pure bottom crud and little water but she stayed flat and i couldn't find her. Then she got away time and time again. I finally got her in the pool. I emptied the pond and pulled out a 2 ft. ball of roots, mud, and lots of bricks for the toads. (I still need to figure out a way to make the pond more toad friendly around the edges early in spring) I noted that there wasn't a hint of the huge creeping jenny plant i had in there, hardly any of the parrot feather left, and taro was magically growing in 4 other places besides the original monster in a pot. There was only a hint of water celery, but it doesn't like my pond anyway. Almost all of the ton of anacharis was gone! And the only tiny bummer was that there wasn't a snail to be found. I wanted to bring a few in for the winter. I used a wet/dry vac and got the shelves and bottom. I then tied a bundle of creeping primrose to a brick on one side, a bundle of parrot feather on the other side to a brick, and what was left of the anacharis, i bunched up and sunk, tied to a brick. When it gets cold i will sink the 2 WH i am keeping. That leaves 4-5 to trash. I sat the lily back down on the bottom and fill, adding declor. I didn't take the temp, but it felt the same. I got the two fish that were first caught into the clean pond quickly. But that dang female, i about killed her trying to get her back in there. She flips and jumps and wriggles, and squirms and is good at all those things! I was about to drain the pool when i finally got her. I need azolla, as asked in a separate thread, creeping jenny, and some regular little black snails. |
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