05-10-2013, 08:16 AM
My brother had a small pond in his back yard. We put a turtle in it and he lived for a few years but eventually died. Not sure why. Anyway we put water hyacinths in it. The turtle ate them. When I had him in a 90 gallon aquarium he destroyed the plants but when we put him in the pond that had much more surface area the innate productivity of the hyacinths was such that they kept ahead of him.
The water hyacinths were extremely messy in that they dropped a lot of root material to the bottom of the pond which became anaerobic and smelled like rotten eggs when you cleaned the muck out. In retrospect that might have been what did Yertle in.
The water hyacinths were extremely messy in that they dropped a lot of root material to the bottom of the pond which became anaerobic and smelled like rotten eggs when you cleaned the muck out. In retrospect that might have been what did Yertle in.