Yesterday in passing the pond while mowing I noticed the pond was getting alot of green growth on the sides and to me looks like string algea Kinda pretty but needless to say I pulled what I could out and found that the kids had kids...(found 4 3/4" lil guys) to my amazement. I'm thinking with the 3 big rains we had in the past few weeks this stuff decided it wanted to grow as I haven't had any problems with anything since getting the pond running this past July. That stuff was all but clogging up my big pump too. I figured I best clean up what I could get out of the pond since it is fall and about time to take in plants and get the kids pond ready for winter here. Oh and the pond was COLDDDD while I was in it for about 30 mins...um not going to do that again for that long as my legs, feet and hands/arms were froze! I haven't been feeding the fish for the past week since our temps have been getting lower, heck I wouldn't want to eat in cold water either! Temps here have varied between 57 to 80 daytime and 43 to 50's at night. Ah fall...argh.
I'm still debating if I can just leave my lotus in the pond at a deeper level or to just bring them in to sit in a bucket of water all winter for next spring. I will bring my black tarot in and have already brought in my banana trees and elephant ears.QUESTION: does duck weed stay living during the winter or should that be brought in too? I have it in another container, not in my pond though. The hyacinths are probably just going to have to die cuz I see they are not doing as good since it got colder on some of the days/nights. Also where do you folks find wheat germ? Our earl mays does not have any in the fish section, although the fish seem to have enough to munch on if they wanted to with that stuff growning on the sides of the pond and aren't as enthusiastic about rushing to the surface for food (which I'm not giving them anymore) to beg.
I'm still debating if I can just leave my lotus in the pond at a deeper level or to just bring them in to sit in a bucket of water all winter for next spring. I will bring my black tarot in and have already brought in my banana trees and elephant ears.QUESTION: does duck weed stay living during the winter or should that be brought in too? I have it in another container, not in my pond though. The hyacinths are probably just going to have to die cuz I see they are not doing as good since it got colder on some of the days/nights. Also where do you folks find wheat germ? Our earl mays does not have any in the fish section, although the fish seem to have enough to munch on if they wanted to with that stuff growning on the sides of the pond and aren't as enthusiastic about rushing to the surface for food (which I'm not giving them anymore) to beg.
