Pond Plants
Splashtastic have a huge section dedicated to the most common pond plants for your pond.
Each section is comprised in either floating, marginal, deep water and bog garden sections enabling you to find the plants you require in an easy to use format.
Our fully illustrated and detailed sections will be ready shortly.
It is well known that koi tend not to live together in a mutual harmony with plants due to the habits of the koi feeding amongst the ponds bottom, and there ability to eat almost all the varieties of plants available.
Sturgeon can and often suffer in a planted pond due to their inability to swim backwards, their fixed dorsals can entrap them in the long flowing roots or stems of many plants.
Sturgeon also suffer with plants using up the waters oxygen levels at night, which can be found in detail in our water quality section
However not all ponds are designed to have just fish, the asthetic value of many garden water features means the pond owner would rather have more plants than fish, and a balance of both can be very easily achieved if the fish you keep are not the main reason you have the pond.
With all pond plants there needs to be the understanding that they are for your pond only. If any become to invasive they should be thinned out and composted.
Never ever introduce any pond plant to a natural water source, huge fines and possible imprisonment can become a result to neglectful pond owners.
Thu, 01/27/2011 - 20:09 by Splashtastic
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When it comes to pond maintainence many pond owners and fish keepers forget that besides the regular water quality checks and the constant vigulance required monitoring our fish health there is an under the water check that we pond owners should keep an eye out for. This of course is our pond plants and in this instance we look at the distructive possibilities of the water lily.
In mid January Splash was called out to a pond that was drastically losing water, over a foot ( 12 inches ) loss over night. After arranging with the pond owner a suitable time to visit off to their premises armed with nets and emergency quarantine pool for their beloved fish. On arrival we quickly set up the pool and netted the fish using as much pond water as possible.
Fri, 08/27/2010 - 07:37 by Splashtastic
Tags: Poisonous plants are a often missed reason for a fatality in a pond and even to a human being should any poisonous part of the plant be consumed. Many gardens are very heavily planted to give a stunning natural habitat so to help with what plants could cause problems with your fish or even yourself we have comprised a list of some of the most common plants. If you are buying a plant for your garden and there is a posibility it can over grow your pond always check with the horticulturalist to check if there is a possibility of the plant being toxic to your fish.
