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Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 12:53 pm **Water Hyacinth growing**

Hey all, right now I've about 6 water hyacinths, I live in Singapore, a hot tropical climate with about average 32 degrees celsius temperature. I want a lot more hyacinths, but they cost about $10 where I live, and obviously I can't keep buying them. How fast can they reproduce and how do they do it? Mine don't have any flowers. I keep them in my RES pond, they don't get eaten. Can they really clear up the bad stuff in the water? Is my poop and algae infested water gonna' be good for them? I change the water 100% every week. I want a whole pond covered with these majestical plants!

Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 3:03 pm

They will start to bud off and break off new pieces. It takes a while to start, but then it will be very quick.

Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:09 pm

Sweet, but how while is while and how fast is fast?

Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 5:35 am

My terrapins have begun voraciously nipping on the hyacinths so I removed them into a 5 gallon tank. I filled the bottom with soil, and water reaches up to about 30cm high. Water's very cloudy with mud right now. Will they reproduce and live well in there? I'm going to reproduce them more before I return them to the pond. Will this work? Help please!

Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 12:11 pm

It takes like a week for them to form another new plant if conditions are right.

You will find you will have to remove some eventually cause they compact together so tightly.

Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:54 pm

Are my conditions alright? They're under a blazing heat, in water with soil in the bottom. I want to grow more first before I put it back into my pond so the terrapins eat it it slower than they are growing.

Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:46 am

Honestly those plants are tricky, they like there ponds. You will just have to wait and see if they grow some but it sounds like they should grow.

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:22 am

water hyacinth cost $1 each @ clementi!

Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 12:50 pm

1st Singaporean I've met here! Really? I bought it somewhere else so expensive. What's the name of the shop and address?

Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 6:27 am

lol. im the same guy from petschannel. Swee Seng aquarium and florist @ sunset way clementi has them for $1 each. Where did u buy those $10 water hyacinth? Their crazy. The aquarium at Clementi block 328 has lots of stuffs too

Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:36 am

Haha cool. Thanks! I forgot the name of the place, but its a bigggg shop with other lines of shops connected.

Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 10:05 am

Yep. Clementi has quite alot of aquarium supplies.

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