Oxygenator Pond Plants Add Oxygen To Your Water Garden

The most natural way of adding valuable oxygen to your water garden or fish pond is to add a class of aquatic pond plant known as Oxygenators to your pond.

The Double Life Of Aquatic Plants!

All plants, including pond plants during daylight hours produce oxygen in a process known as photosynthesis. They utilize sunlight (UV light) and carbon dioxide to produce carbohydrates and Oxygen. In a pond environment the oxygen is beneficial to the pond fish and nitrifying beneficial bacteria. A side effect of the breakdown of ammonia is the resultant level of nitrate produced. This nitrate is used by aquatic plants and algae alike!

At night time however aquatic plants stop producing oxygen and start to consume it. This is why it is important not to have too many aquatic plants.

Why Are Oxygenator Plants Good For Fish Ponds?

It is extremely difficult for atmospheric oxygen to dissolve into pond water; particularly in warmer water. Oxygenator plants effectively dissolve oxygen into the pond water more effectively than by artificial mechanical turbulence methods such as a waterfall.

What Is an Oxygenator?

Any plant species that exists under the water is classified as an oxygenator plant. As with most things in life there are the elite, the good, the average and the bad. Fantastic oxygenator aquatic plants will have some things in common. They will have roots that tend to be merely for anchorage and the nutrition and absorption and gaseous exchange occurs on the surface of the plant directly to each cell. The plant will be thin walled and will have thin leaves that encourages gaseous exchange to take place.

What Are The Best Oxygenator Choices?

The Water Crowfoot, the Water Buttercup (Ranunculus aquatalis) and the Curly Pond Weed (Potamageton crispus) are three of the best. The Curly Pond Weed (Elodea crispa), which is a native South African oxygenator is great for using up excess nitrates and compounds found in pond water.

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