It's dead something. Usually Eur Milfoil is red stemmed. This is tough, but if I had to guess I'd say coontail. Gray clay bottom? That sure should not make the water that color under any circumstances. This one get stranger by the post. Whatever that plant is I'd say it got killed by the temps. Now it's going to sink and rot, not a good thing as decaying vegetation can lead to a host of other problems, and you have a lot of it. I had a pond with way worse infestation than that and I raked all of the vegetation out when I could. Thanks for the photos and the updates. Pretty cool.


Oh dye. Won't do nothing here. In a way you already have dye. It's just not a pleasant color. The water is clear in a jar, yet tinted in the pond? Nothing is settling on the bottom of the jar? Is the water in the pond that feeds this pond the same color?

Last edited by The Pond Frog; 03/23/10 08:21 AM.