Sorry Jeff.
Yes those are bananas, they grow pretty well around here, some of the plants, we have several different kinds, reach 12 to 15 feet as the fruit matures and then they are cut down to harvest the bananas. Our temps rarely dip below 80.
ewest, the new pond has responded differently, the water is a different color and clarity is about a foot. The old has suspended clay with about 3 inches clarity. The tilapia are slow to establish, part of that is from birds, but not all. There is quite a bit of cover but still reproduction and survival is slow. I am now adding mature fish and will add another 1000 1 1/4" long. I am trying to have a solid forage base so that I can stock Peacock bass.
The plants in the water are on a shoal that is in about 3 feet of water, but even they are slow. I am not getting the nutrients here that I am in the old pond and they are only 100 feet apart.
