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Punt lava - Go to plants
Cleaning rock is such a hassle. It only provides surface. Roots work as
well and their owners take out other nutrients. Veggie filters are so far ahead of mechanical! We use anacharis, parrots feather, water celery and hyacinth. The celery has wonderful roots at the bottom of the pond that grab everything and can be flushed or just tossed (grows LOTS). Hyacinth grows wonderfully, pulling nutrients like mad and with roots that hold baby fish. The hyacinth floats, so the roots reach down, whereas the celery roots are at the bottom. Parrots feather has more stringy roots. Babies hide in it quite well. For surface area of roots, go with celery. If you can do hyacinth as well (illegal in some states), you can pull nutrients even faster. Lots of people can send you plants once the season starts. Jim -- ______________________________________________ See our pond at: home.bellsouth.net\p\pwp-jameshurley Check out Jog-A-Thon fundraiser (clears $140+ per child) at: jogathon.net ______________________________________________ "Tom Wikoff" wrote in message ... With winter in west-central Ohio on the wane, I am nearly ready to begin getting the pond back up and running. This will be the second full year for the pond. It is approximately 1800 gal with a 200 gal. bio-filter. That bio-filter has approx. 50 bags of lava rock. Last summer a young man at the local nursery/water garden outlet advised me to take out and replace the lava rock because of my complaint about string algae. I had never heard of the need to replace this rock and find the thought of the cost of replacing it just a bit hard to swallow. Was that sound advice? Can't the rock be "cleaned" instead. NOTE: I do keep small bales of barley straw in the both the filter and at the waterfall and treat the water with products recommended by the people who sold me the liner, pump and fish (5 to date). The ratio of time I spend maintaining versus enjoying my pond does not set well with me. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. |
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Punt lava - Go to plants
"Phyllis and Jim Hurley" wrote in message . .. Cleaning rock is such a hassle. It only provides surface. Roots work as well and their owners take out other nutrients. Veggie filters are so far ahead of mechanical! We use anacharis, parrots feather, water celery and hyacinth. The celery has wonderful roots at the bottom of the pond that grab everything and can be flushed or just tossed (grows LOTS). Hyacinth grows wonderfully, pulling nutrients like mad and with roots that hold baby fish. The hyacinth floats, so the roots reach down, whereas the celery roots are at the bottom. Parrots feather has more stringy roots. Babies hide in it quite well. For surface area of roots, go with celery. If you can do hyacinth as well (illegal in some states), you can pull nutrients even faster. Lots of people can send you plants once the season starts. snip Amen brother. -- BV. www.iheartmypond.com |
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Punt lava - Go to plants
"Phyllis and Jim Hurley" wrote in message . .. Cleaning rock is such a hassle. It only provides surface. Roots work as well and their owners take out other nutrients. Veggie filters are so far ahead of mechanical! We use anacharis, parrots feather, water celery and hyacinth. The celery has wonderful roots at the bottom of the pond that grab everything and can be flushed or just tossed (grows LOTS). Hyacinth grows wonderfully, pulling nutrients like mad and with roots that hold baby fish. The hyacinth floats, so the roots reach down, whereas the celery roots are at the bottom. Parrots feather has more stringy roots. Babies hide in it quite well. For surface area of roots, go with celery. If you can do hyacinth as well (illegal in some states), you can pull nutrients even faster. Lots of people can send you plants once the season starts. snip Amen brother. -- BV. www.iheartmypond.com |
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Punt lava - Go to plants
"Phyllis and Jim Hurley" wrote in message . .. Cleaning rock is such a hassle. It only provides surface. Roots work as well and their owners take out other nutrients. Veggie filters are so far ahead of mechanical! We use anacharis, parrots feather, water celery and hyacinth. The celery has wonderful roots at the bottom of the pond that grab everything and can be flushed or just tossed (grows LOTS). Hyacinth grows wonderfully, pulling nutrients like mad and with roots that hold baby fish. The hyacinth floats, so the roots reach down, whereas the celery roots are at the bottom. Parrots feather has more stringy roots. Babies hide in it quite well. For surface area of roots, go with celery. If you can do hyacinth as well (illegal in some states), you can pull nutrients even faster. Lots of people can send you plants once the season starts. snip Amen brother. -- BV. www.iheartmypond.com |
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