"Mark Mendell" wrote in message
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Last spring, I bought a TON of anacharis. It flourished,
filling up the
bottom of the 15' x 30' x 4' pond. When the ice finally
left, the anacharis
was gone! I'm assuming that my fish had a nice winter
long snack! The
pond is understocked with fish. I have goldfish and a 4
or 5 smallish Koi.
Anyone have methods of protecting anacharis from the fish
in winter?

Thanks!

mark

Maybe the thing to do is store some away from
the fish over winter, but leave most in the
pond for the fish, since they seem to use that
as a food source. My pond goldfish ate most
of the anacharis but there was enough left that it's
coming back, plus the anacharis in the two
minnow-only ponds can supplement the plants
in the goldfish pond as needed.

However, aren't koi mostly incompatible with
plants? I don't have koi, so I don't know the
answer, but I thought it was hard to keep plants
in koi ponds.

Gail