koi will uproot the lily looking for worms and such in the mud. however, if the fish
are fed well they wont. it helps to put river rocks (smooth flat large rocks) on the
top of the mud and infill with smaller pea gravel. my koi only go after leaves that
are over the hill and beginning to rot becoming hosts to little bugs. I dont toss
the food on top of my lily since the koi will launch themselves up onto the leaves to
get the food. if you go down to the second picture from the bottom you will see my
one big lily in the pond http://weloveteaching.com/mypond/changes/changes2.htm
there are 22 koi in that pond .... and that lily that this last summer got so huge I
did have to pull it out, cut it up and repot it. Ingrid

"STEPHEN WHITE" wrote:

wife has just bought some lillies for the pond but the instructions say to
remove the fish etc and that the plants are not suitable for koi carp. why
is this?

also i am loath to put the plants in the pond as it is currently host to a
load of frogspawn, can i start the lillies off in a bucket then transfer the
plant basket to the pond at a later date?




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