WPOwner Are you positive that the plant is coontail? I had a course of Aquatic Vascular Plants in college. Coontail looks very similar to a couple other plant species. Has your identification been confirmed by some one with experience?.
Ponds are expensive to properly manage. Then old, old ponds have had many years of each year accumulating more nutrients to collect and feed more algae / weed problems. Many years of accumulations result in many more old age pond problems as you are now experiencing. Once dead organics releasing nutrients that feed plants are in the pond how do they get out???? Usually the nutrients don't get out, the pond just keeps collecting more nutrients. IMO for a 100 year old pond, look into Mucksuckers in central OH. .
Last edited by Bill Cody; 03/24/26 09:27 AM.
