Water Gardening: Once Again, I'm Putting in a Pond!, 1 by MollyMc

MollyMc wrote:
So I did cut off the brown on that papyrus and there is new growth showing now. But that's not all.

I have a lot of algae but I am not going to concern myself with it too much. I went and bought a good sized pleeco (sic) and he's been in there feasting away for a week or so now. Haven't seen him, but that water is pretty murky in green.

The pond sits in full sun so the algae was inevitable. I know I need at least 50% of the water surface covered with plants etc. Well today we have almost that much so Mr Pleeco will be able to catch up eating it now.

I added a LA iris to the pond. Some of the grasses got freeze bite and we had to cut them back, but things are looking good, they will return.