Overstocking My Plants
 

"zookeeper" wrote in message
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BenignVanilla wrote:
"zookeeper" wrote in message
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BV, maybe the plants need orange water in order to survive? Some iron in
the clay that's now missing from their diet?

You are just LOVING my orange problem aren't you? *laugh* You better
watch
yourself, or I'll put that Rosie Red Minnow hex on you, like I almost
did to
Nedra.

Well, sniff, it was actually, sniff, a serious question (note lack of
the usual wink icon), sniff.

I do enjoy your orange pond-water tales, if only because I have lots of
green, silty water at the moment. If I had a digital camera or a
scanner, I'd share so we all could laugh about my pea-soup pond. Hey, do
Rosie Red Minnow hexes cure green water?

Sorry, my bad. I am a bit over-sensitive about my orange water. *laugh*

BV.

Overstocking My Plants
 

Yup, it sure is likely when ponds are heavily planted and liner ponds,
there's a definite limit to what plants can do. You are headed toward
the opposite of 'eutrophic' conditions, first obvious signs are water
lilies not forming buds and foliage yellowing.

Until you thin out the plants and supply effective fertility, the
plants will take advantage of the situation, the more invasive plants
will try to smother more delicate ones and mulch them...

the likes of mulch fluid, super phosphates, and typical tomato feed
should perk aquatics as much or as little as you like, however its
always a good idea to cut back the less interesting more invasive
plant varieties prior to winter, those which are likely to dump a lot
of dead foliage in the water

Regards, andy
http://www.members.aol.com/abdavisnc/swglist.html
(andys aquatic plant list for interesting swaps:)
http://community.webshots.com/user/adavisus
(photo albums of aquatic plants and descriptions)

So I ask...is it possible, contrary to popular belief, to overstock with
plants and filter nutrients out faster then the fish can produce them?