Water Gardening: foamy water, 1 by fredrump

fredrump wrote:
Sorry about all the cold weather up there in the north country. I have the opposite problem here. Too much sun.

The foam came again today and I'm sure now that it is the heat that does something to the water as it splashes into itself. The foamy bubbles pretty much go away in the evening. I think I may have a real problem with all this sun. I may have exacerbated the situation when I added all the rock into the stream. These now are heated by the sun which in turn heat the water. I mean it is warm to the touch. Tomorrow I'm going to get a thermometer.

The plants seem to love the heat and sun but the fish stay out of the sun and are more or less lethargic. My new big koi aren't used to the sun at all as they grew up in a shady shallow pond. They pretty much spend the day under the waterfall where the water splashes down. Maybe it's cooler there. Are there any other full sun ponders here? Any in Florida? Maybe I need to add a fountain or something to help cool the water down.

If it's not one thing, it's another.

Like I said, the lilies love the heat and are blooming and growing like crazy. The near lily shows three blooms and about 5 additional buds.

Fred