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My lake has been inundated with a pond weed called chara. It is thickly matted about 2 feet below the surface. So far we are lucky it has not emerged. I'm not sure if it's a serious problem other than making the fishing rather tough. Will it hurt anything? Can it be treated?
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It will stay submerged.
Pluses and minuses:
+ Great cover for invertebrates and for fry and fingerling fish to hide
+ Produces beaucoup oxygen + It competes with filamentous algae and other invasive macrophytes and can preclude any problems with them
- Decomposes underneath and adds to the muck layer - Too much cover for forage is not necessarily good for predator fish - It can get seriously out of hand but not always
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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It dies back (mostly) every year. It is treated the same way algae is treated (chemically), but once it's mature it's very hard to control.
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Yes is can be treated. I had the same problem your talking about it coverd at least 70 percent of my pond. My pond has shallow slopes so that don't help any either! I added a few grass carp and treated with Cutrine Plus Granular and this is the first summer I have ever had without all that chara. It does make for very hard fishing under the water that's for sure. Even bobber fishing is hard to do! I used the CP to a point and then let the GC take it from there.
Good Luck,
The only difference between a rut and a Grave is the depth. So get up get out of that rut and get moving!! Time to work!!
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Good for you RC51. My water is so hard even the new young growth for the year doesn't fear Cutrine Plus. I control mine to some extent by raking it out or draining my production ponds annually. If I get a good algae bloom going in those ponds it also controls it -- especially the yellow phytoplankton that makes the water a brown color.
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If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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Hey Cecil, That's a bunch of Chara right there! I thought I had hard water??? I guess not! Course my pond has not seen any kind of chemical treatment in a long, long time so it more than like freaked out when I put that CP in there!! I think I caught it by surprise. Along with about 4 grass carp to keep up with the rest it has worked great for me!! I also used 2 one pound packages of CFLO through out the summer. I think that is helping too with my mucky bottom. Not sure if I will have to treat next year or not but I am sold on CP for sure! If I need it again I will have it handy!!
The only difference between a rut and a Grave is the depth. So get up get out of that rut and get moving!! Time to work!!
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So your grass carp were not effected by the CP?
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
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