My opposition to chara is that it starts very early and can eliminate nutrients that actual aquatic vegetation need to grow. Obviously this is a balance thing and chara grows more abundantly the harder the water.
If chara gets a hold, it'll over-take any beneficial vegetation present and grass carp can't control it because they can't digest it.
It grows back faster than you can kill it without killing the O2 profile.
We have a community lake here of 10 acres I've been battling this on and actually have mats of dead material over 1' thick. We have another small st lake that is having the same issues and our state NEPA group will not allow the use of Tilapia because someone found a brassy minnow in 1996 where there hasn't been water since 2003.
Last edited by Snipe; 07/22/23 05:58 PM.
