Oh the other question I had is I do live in Texas, and it will get hot hot hot in a few months. I read the biggest problem with heat is a lack of aeration in the water for fish to survive. I plan to move it to full shade on my patio when it gets consistently over 90 degrees, but are there any other steps I can take for the health of the fish and plants?

Last winter, I had a mass of roots floating on the top of my pond. Not knowing what it was, I left it in, but the weather turned colder and the roots were frozen in the ice. We had a very snowy winter (for this aream central MD- over 40" of snow). During spring cleanup, I went to remove these roots, only to see growth on the roots. I left them in, curious to see what they were. Turns out, it was a water lily, and it has done better this year than any other year (in size and blooms). I can't confirm that was due to winter freeze, as we've also had a very hot summer.

I have `Mexicalla` a beautiful small yellow lily that blooms all summer and is very prolific since it propagates by runners to produce more lilies and more blooms. What do you offer in trade? Xjaxx Jack jatoni@sc.rr.com

Now the dimwit that stole it will have to find and steal a priceless African dwarf frog to sit on the priceless African dwarf water lily pad. This is what happens every time you take away somebody's rights to own guns. Instead of going out and robbing banks they are reduced to stealing rare water lilies. I pity the poor person if they get caught and slapped in prison... the other prisoners will ask what was your crime? err ahh um I stole a flower. Aw geeze! not another freakin' flower child... what is this world coming to? MOO