Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

kudzu dies where you live????

kudzu will cover your entire house here!

It might work well in the sump, but would either be eaten by fish in the main tank and/or would trap food that would end up as a stinking rotten mess.

Nevada, had it growing in a pot in the house, grew fast, then put it outside, and it dies very fast.

ya gotta water it once in a while.. when its in a pot outside

What finally happened with the water hyacinths?

I know a lot of people with koi and goldfish grow the water hyacinth in their ponds to improve the water quality. Apparently its a type of oxygenating plant so it adds more oxygen than it takes out at night. The roots catch a lot of floating debris that passes by too. Its easy to scoop out of the tank when it grows too much, so in a small, controlled environment overpopulation wouldn't be a big deal.

I doubt it is actually oxygenating, but it does shade the water, preventing overheating and the growth of algae, both of which cause low O2 and other trouble.

I had water hyacinth in my backyard koi pond for a while. A hard freeze will kill it, but if a tiny plant survived, it comes back. The way that I sucessfully controlled it was to pull it out and toss it on my grass. I'd let it bake a few days in the sun and it would dry up to 1/10 of its former weight. Then, I'd hit it with the mulching mower. Gone....

Its a big problem here on the gulf coast of Texas. The weevil that controlled it was discovered on a lake in Africa, IIRC. DUnno if they have released that weevil into our environs here in Texas.