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I seem to be overrun every summer with four major types of pond weeds. Have identified primrose and smartweed but need help with the other two and are they candidates for grass carp?  
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The top one looks like stringy examples of chara. (see if it smells musty, similar to a skunk..also see if it feels crunchy.) If it is chara, it is a candidate for grass carp.
The bottom one is yellow creeping water primrose, not a good candidate for grass carp.
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FT:
I can read the "76" in the top picture, but can't see a number in the second. Does that make me color blind or just strange?
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I think Theo may in fact be from Arkansas and the Central Ohio address is just camo to throw us all off.
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Originally posted by Theo Gallus:
FT:
I can read the "76" in the top picture, but can't see a number in the second. Does that make me color blind or just strange? A+ !!!! LOL I see the 76 as well but did you see the sailboat in the bottom one, you have to stare really hard.
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Originally posted by Bob Lusk:
The bottom one is yellow creeping water primrose, not a good candidate for grass carp. Bob, I don’t want to get in trouble again with the scientists, but GC has done a good job on controlling our water primrose. Could it be because they were “feed trained” on it, since water primrose was the only aquatic vegetation available for GC at the time, stocked four years ago?
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Ewest reminded me recently in a PM discussion about water primrose control, that it is the least favorable diet of grass carp, but goats will wrap their lips around it, pull and eat the entire vine: By coincidence, I just received this photo from my DIL, showing the goats in newly enclosed pond fence. They think willows are desert – now if they will just eat cattails. Biological weed conrol.. Thanks ewest 
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Bob was right , it’s chara alright but a rare dyslexic variety. 
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