Pond Boss Forums AQUATIC VEGETATION Identifying plants Some sort of algae or pond weed?

Can someone please help identify what I have growing in my pond in central VA? It�s shown up this year in a couple patches. It�s in water about 5 feet deep. My shore is all native plants but this is new. I�m not sure if I should be worried. The fish are enjoying the couple patches right now.

It is definitely not algae. Try to get a similar picture of it in a dish or pan of water so the leaves can lay out in a natural "pose" as in underwater.

Sorry for the delay. We have a new addition to the family that has consumed a lot of time.

Allayched ate some photos of my weed in the pond. I�m thinking maybe I need a couple grass carp as long as they leave my native plants mostly alone. I don�t have any emergents that I put in on purpose.

thats almost what my dead/dying groups of FA look like

I googled pictures or FA and looked around here but it doesn�t seem like that. It�s not goopy looking or really clumps. Could it be chara? Would grass carp eat it?

Looks like chara or nitella to me. Does it smell musty/garlicky when you break it apart?

It doesn�t smell but my nose isn�t the best. Here are more pictures in the water. Geese are gone for now. I�m thinking they are what loaded me up with the nutrients for it to take off. I�m still leaning towards nitella?

Fry love the stuff so I don�t want it all gone. I�m debating grass carp. I�m just wondering if they�d survive the hungry bass hoard.