Water lettuce & Hyacinth indoors

[Dale D]

Here's a picture of it in my planted tank.

 

[Muske]

Metal halides on a turtle tank... You're an animal. I like it.

 

[Lupin]

Dale, that's a nice pic! Enter it in one of the photo contests.

 

[zotix]

I thought it was pretty dumb when Idaho decided to add water hyacinths to the list of invasive weeds for Idaho I can't get them to live even if I bring them in for the winter. All that is still alive now is my neptunes crown and duck weed. the neptunes crown isn't looking real good.

 

[Dr Joe]

I thought it was pretty dumb when Idaho decided to add water hyacinths to the list of invasive weeds for Idaho I can't get them to live even if I bring them in for the winter. All that is still alive now is my neptunes crown and duck weed. the neptunes crown isn't looking real good.

The problem with Eichhornia crassipes is the seeds can remain dormant for up to 20 years or germinate in a few days. I've seen lakes here that enterprising community energetically cleaned their lake constantly and it kept coming back and in another 6 months later had fish kills from bad water, turning it into a dead lake because the water hyacinth was the only thing cleaning the water

If these people would just learn to corral these plants (literally), the plants will limit themselves. Problems start when there is too high a % of plants to lake area, and the lake can't support the amount of detritus when the plants die normally.

But for a pond or a biological water filter, you can't beat Water hyacinth, water lettuce and cattails.

Dr Joe

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[Cleopatra]

How bad is parrots feather? (Myriophyllum aquaticum) I brought mine in from outside and she is beautiful. We named her Audrey (Feed me Seymore. Feed me!).

Last week I started researching more about her - to get more of them- and find out that she is invasive (banned in Connecticut).

Now what? -