Plant attracting / creating Algae and muck

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This plant used to grow into the air, now it's spreading out into the water and on the edge of the pond creates this green goo which I presume is algae.

Should I trim it, leave it, brush out the algae, anything else? I don't know the name of the plant. The red flowers landed in the water after falling out of a nearby tree.

Thanks for any advice.
 

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If you don't have any fish/turtles to help trim/eat it, I'd trim it and clean out any of the more viscous algae. It may come back but easy enough to lift out.
 
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If you don't have any fish/turtles to help trim/eat it, I'd trim it and clean out any of the more viscous algae. It may come back but easy enough to lift out.


I have 5 medium sized goldfish and 7 babies. No turtles. Despite the fish, the "green blob" is growing. I may trim.
 
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I agree that the plant in question looks like water celery. It tends to be a 'cool' weather plant, growing very strongly in the early Spring, looking a bit rough in the heat of Summer, and perhaps coming back strong in the Fall, before going dormant over winter. If the string algae that is clinging to it bothers you, then simply get in there & weed a bit of it out by hand, pulling it out from among the trailing stems of the water celery.
 

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