Pond Boss Forums AQUATIC VEGETATION Balance of plants in the environment Managing Desirable Vegetation

I am not sure whether I have Potamogeton foliosus (Leafy Pondweed) or Potamogeton pusillus (Slender Pondweed) but I'm starting to get a whole bunch of one of them. It is definitely the dominant vegetation in the pond. Would it be OK to stock 1 GC in my .35 to .75 acre this fall to help manage it? I can't stock sooner as I can't get a GC from Keystone until fall. My concern is I don't want the GC to wipe out the duck potato, hardy lilies, pickerelweed, creeping rush, hardstem bull rush, red tip eel grass, etc.

It grows in "bush" type clumps. I don't want to wipe this stuff out as it seems to be awesome habitat for small critters but I would like to "manage" it. My thought was that, since it is by far the most abundant vegetation in the pond, the GC will focus more on it than the others. Question is do GC like this stuff? I know I could mechanically remove a lot of it but my body ain't what it used to be!