My third method is to pull a badly infested plant and immerse it for a
while in a 20 gal tub treated with Algae Destroyer.
In my quest for a more enduring victory I'm looking at adding a new
weapon to my arsenel - go for the achillees heel of algae by going after
nutrients in the water column. I'm thinking switching away from planting
baskets back to solid rubber and plastic tubs - except for pickerel
weed and a few others which I might grow bare root in baskets of gravel
or lava rock to provide a natural in-pond filtration and refugium for
scuds and other pond life.
I'm hoping that though a combination of barley straw, natural
competition with vascular plants and restricting flow of nutrients from
planters I can starve the algae out.
I just so happen to have an algae problem in my planted tank - so I was
thinking of testing some ideas there.
Jeff
PS I'd love to hear from anyone who has or can get Lobelia dortmanna
plants or viable seed.
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