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Just this crappy one. Didn't start doing anything with them until like two months later.

I used to (in the loosest sense: basically a branch cutting that grew roots), then the SO found out and I got chewed out because keeping willows in the house around here is like the Judeo-Christian equivalent of... fiery Satanic iconography in the bathroom or something. Pretty big loss actually...

Will do, thanks!

I've been placing the hyacinth upside down in the water hoping for the fish to get at the bugs but there's just too many it seems.

This is Whitey, one of my three Chinese pond turtles; he also happens to be the most outgoing/badass and has a total of five jailbreaks to his name just this season. The other two are Brownie and Blacky and spend most of their time on the tank bottom getting harassed by the fish. Brothers...

Thanks! When I bought it the labeling was literally 'aquatic yellow flower canna' (水生黄花美人蕉, off taobao). I planted a couple taros from the grocery store alongside it in about 2 or 3 cm of standing water; the taros rotted within a week while the canna did pretty well. During the first few weeks...

Canna, about 4 months of growth.

Not sure if this counts as a pond since it's so small, but it's running a bog filter so I figured I'd try my luck here. The inhabitants include: 3x Chinese Pond turtles 2x Yellow Pond turtles (hybrid) ~10x rosy bitterlings 5x stone morokos 6x siamese algae eaters All yearlings or thereabouts...