Controlling Watermeal Weeds: Tips for Managing Watermeal in Ponds

Controlling Watermeal Weeds: Tips for Managing Watermeal in Ponds
By Peter Van Smith

Many of you would not know that Watermeal holds the unique position as world's smallest flowering plant. It's also the most troublesome pond weed that exist around the world. Watermeal weeds are 1 to 1 1/2 millimeter long, small grain-like plant is commonly found embedded in the pond. These watermeal weeds are so tiny that they are barely visible through the naked eye. You need to rub these weeds on your palms to feel the grainy sensation.

This weed can actually spoil the beauty of your pond. If you are one of the many irritated by the same situation, here are some tips that will help you to get rid of them or at least can control watermeal.

1. Restrict its feed- Eliminate or restrict the diet/ nutrients on which watermeal is fed. Microorganisms such as AquaClear Pellets will consume the nutrients. Insert aquatic creatures to feed upon the weed itself. In case your pond is flooded with watermeal weeds, the best way is to drain the pond and wipe it off completely.

2. Remove debris: It's important to ensure impurities that settle at the bottom of your pond becomes the meal for watermeal. It's important to manage the build-up to prevent the rise of watermeal in the pond that grazes on this sludge. Prevent any kind of fertilizer or agricultural run-off settling into your pond, try to restrict falling of leaves from the tree, and use a surface netting that can help trap leaves, or remove all leaves from the pond, daily with a pool net.

3. Aeration: Another important step in this direction is to add a bubble aerator. Proper aeration will not let the water stagnant or accumulate. This method De-stratifies the water layers and provide uniformity to temperature, provide oxygen from top to bottom for the fish and natural bacteria to consume the organic waste, muck and improve water quality. It's advised to add bacteria in the pond, proper aeration will speed up the cleaning process and remove foul smells and muck in turn controlling the watermeal.

4. Introduce Koi: With the above stated methods, you will largely be able to control watermeal. In order to completely get rid of watermeal, you can also introduce fish that eat this plant, like koi or grass carp. Koi will eat watermeal willingly, while grass carp may eat other plants first and steadily kill watermeal. You can also add few ducks in the pond, these ducks will eat up watermeal and add to the beauty of your pond.

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