Pond Boss Forums AERATION Should I aerate? Anatomy of an oxygen crash, or "Am I Willie Mays, or Jose Canseco?"

Good lesson, Bruce. And much less painful than it potentially could have been (without corrective action) - I'm glad you still have 999,982 fish to go for your second million.

I haven't ever thought about the problems with a plant monoculture underwater before, but they are the same as on dry ground - whatever happens to the plants will probably happen to all of them at the same time.

A beautiful (to some) lawn of pedigreed grass needs fertilizing, watering, etc. to stay healthy. My yard full of "weeds" (to some) stays green in a dry August with no rain, no watering, and no fertilizer (not counting well-trained house pets).

If unattended (and who here knows how to give perfect care for horned pond weed, other than the Bill Codys?), we are probably better off with a pond full of diverse "weeds" than a monoculture.