Just to show you how prolific weed growth can get, here is my daily wheel barrow rake up of Chara with some Potmogeton pusillus mixed in. (Only about four or five rake fulls!)

The reddish stuff is dead Chara underneath the live Chara which is tinted with iron deposits. That much dead Chara decomposing makes me nervous so I try and stay on top of it. Even if it isn't problematic to the fish respiration it will gradually build up a muck layer as it decomposes, which I don't want.



Last edited by Cecil Baird1; 10/19/07 10:11 PM.
If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.