Pond Boss Forums AQUATIC VEGETATION Identifying plants Plant ID, please

A pond owner can't really do a lot to grow the best types of periphyton other than maintaining good water quality and providing substrates for it to grow on. All periphyton are attached forms of mostly "algae" growth. If it cannot get an adequate amount of light it will not grow. Turbid water restricts the depth at which periphyton will grow and thrive. Some types of periphyton are loosely attached. When it breaks lose from the substrate it is often called tychoplankon. What grows as periphyton depends on the quality of water and the nutrients that are present. The more nutrients that are present causes more periphyton to grow and some of it can be filamentous algae or mats of cyanobacteria and they can be a big nuisance as in too much uncontrolled and unwanted growth/s. The type of periphton that grows is directly related to the water quality. Many of the periphytic species are indicators of the water quality conditions. The type of periphyton that grows and the species composing it are direct results of the water quality conditions that it has to live in or substrates it grows on.