Pond plants

[waynefrcan]

Hi all, well it's planting time and have a few questions.

I have 2 surface skimmers and was wondering how to keep the floaters away from them?

How do you keep the koi off the plants? Give them Hornwort to chew on?

 

[JohnHuff]

I used to have a surface skimmer but my fish kept getting into them so I got rid of it. (Not much help to answer your question, but just my experience )

 

[waynefrcan]

YEs I remember you saying that. I'm keeping mine as they work awesome for my design. I just stack rocks in front just under the water line, that stops the fish.

 

[HTH]

Floating planter rings. A bit of poly pipe with a hose barb to hose bard connector works.

 

[waynefrcan]

Awesome thanks I will do that. IS that your pond pic? Do the koi eat the roots of these type plants?

 

[JohnHuff]

Those are water hyacinths and koi do not eat the roots of them. In fact, they spawn in them. This year, instead of getting water hyacinths, because of the short growing season, I'm going with duckweed from my indoor tanks. Duckweed grows like crazy and are very efficient filters. Koi are supposed to eat duckweed and mine used to but they haven't been eating this new batch of them.