Pond Boss Forums GENERAL QUESTIONS Muddy water Cisco's pond (pic heavy)

Small update. I had a pretty good rain about a month or so back and the water is muddy again. I took a clear bottle out week before last and put it in my gunroom and it settled in a week so I'm hoping the water will gradually clear up.

Before


After 1 week


I am getting some growth now. What is it?

Looks like Chara to me.

Me too. Zap it.

Me three.

Does chara have the little small white flowers? I've got a book somewhere AL gave me but I haven't been able to find it. Maybe american pondweed?

Me four,

Good Brian, here is a pic of APW

Thanks guys! I'm just happy something is growing!

The Good Brian, welcome to the world of clear water. Don't be surprised if more plants pop up, so walk the banks, and get feel for what's going on.

It's cleared nicely in the jar during that week. Looks like Rex did a great job.

Be careful what you ask for..... My very first plants turned out to be hydrophilla ..... A federal noxious weed ! Ugh

Cisco, hope and pray that it doesn't look like a cross between chara and FA with white flowers. If it does, you're in deep doo-doo.

Google Starry Stonewort and hope that it isn't what is in the pictures below.



Here's a close up of the flower:


If it IS Starry Stonewort, you have to jump on it now and jump on it hard. It's really an algae and it is expensive to treat, as it doesn't respond to standard algaecides. It can create a solid mat of plants from surface to the bottom in 4+' of water, and it is a 2-3 year process to have any hope of killing it all for good.

Thanks esshup, I'll get some better pictures of it tomorrow when I get there. Just about the time I get that @#$% pond to where I'm liking it, another creature appears. I can't say I wasn't warned though.

Tilapia Tilapia Tilapia!!!!

If you can fence off the area around the plants, drop in 10# of tilapia, they'll consume/destroy it fast!

Rainman
Will tilapia eat hygrophila polysperma?

Pat, I'd say yes, but a huge, "It Depends". Tilapia prefer FA first, then aerobic bacteria on muck/detritus, and then other foods not being competed for in each pond setting.

How many pounds stocked it would take to get the Ludwigia eaten is an unknown.

I'm sure you already know if you have the stuff...it is a federal noxious weed and spreads via fragmentation....

How well I know

Pond started to get a little "stirred up" again so I had Rainman back out for a booster application. Helped some but not like the first time.Has to be the wind/wave action. Speaking of wind, it's been about a month since he was here but I've had a little wind lately that didn't help much




Here it is before the breeze came thru.

Had the tops of trees taken off but dead ones right next to them left standing. You think Rex has stories, you should hear some of mine! My late wife always told me to write a book.
Sorry, this really has nothing to do with my muddy pond.

Awe man, that sucks. Hopefully it won't take too long to get the porch roof fixed. It WAS only the porch roof, wasn't it?

Dang Brian....sure glad I was gone...it woulda been my fault somehow!

I hope the damage can be fairly easily repaired...I love sitting there!

When the porch was blown up over the roof, it did pull up a section of the roof but at least it was over the "barn" portion and over the house part. Also put a hole in the side of the building about the size of a 2 x 6. When the porch beam went thru the bedroom window, it blew glass 20'. My bed was covered in it. Part of it fell directly on a spigot and almost pulled the pex tube apart on the inside wall. It was leaking when I got there Friday afternoon but I do have a floor drain out there. Some of the wood floor in the kitchen got wet from rain blowing thru the french doors I think. I couldn't any other way for it to be there. This my friends is the actual life of Brian! Just another opportunity to overcome adversity!At least that's what I've heard.
Rainman, Cant blame you, you were long gone for this one.

Hey Brian, on the bright side, your grass really came in well in that second photo! Sorry to hear about your wind storms.