fishfriends05
Aquarium Advice Regular
I am wanting to know what would be some good, easy to take care of plants for a pond and how's the best way to plant them. Some obstacles to overcome are....
It's not my pond so I don't have a lot of details. gets approximately about 10-12hrs of direct sunlight a day. Perimeter is lined with large rocks or boulders (2 1/2' x 3' x 3'). Bottom of pond is lined with round, smooth 5-10 pound rocks and we're looking at about 400-500 square feet surface area of water. Deepest point is about 5 feet then slopes upward to about 3" around perimeter. Not really any mud in pond for planting. Has two small waterfalls running into it and third larger one is under construction.
I will attempt to get some pics online, but until then I am wondering what would be a good variety of plants and hows the best to plant them. There is a possibility of koi being introduced into the pond. So the koi eating the plants would also have to be considered.
As for the filtration it has a skimmer box with a screen to pick up large debris then the water goes through the pump and into another box that has bags full of lava rock pieces for the biological filtration, then overflows back into the pond. Should there be more filtrtion to the pond. TIA
It's not my pond so I don't have a lot of details. gets approximately about 10-12hrs of direct sunlight a day. Perimeter is lined with large rocks or boulders (2 1/2' x 3' x 3'). Bottom of pond is lined with round, smooth 5-10 pound rocks and we're looking at about 400-500 square feet surface area of water. Deepest point is about 5 feet then slopes upward to about 3" around perimeter. Not really any mud in pond for planting. Has two small waterfalls running into it and third larger one is under construction.
I will attempt to get some pics online, but until then I am wondering what would be a good variety of plants and hows the best to plant them. There is a possibility of koi being introduced into the pond. So the koi eating the plants would also have to be considered.
As for the filtration it has a skimmer box with a screen to pick up large debris then the water goes through the pump and into another box that has bags full of lava rock pieces for the biological filtration, then overflows back into the pond. Should there be more filtrtion to the pond. TIA