Well, I went on an "illegal" harvest this weekend and grabbed a bag of water
hyacinth. I took them home, hosed them off, then put them in a stock tank
and treated them with PP. I couldn't sink them, so I poured the treatment
water over them. Then I drained the tub and repeated. Each treatment took
about 6-8 hours for the PP to neutralize.

Now that I have my ill-gotten gains, how do I care for them? Like, some of
the "bulbs" had broken/dead leaves; if I cut them off, do they grow new
leaves, or should I cut back to the main body of the plant? Similarly, there
are tubers that appear to be the way they multiply: they have small plants
at the end. But some of them are empty, where the plant was broken off.
Should I just cut these back, too? Will the plants survive in "still" water?
Or should I put an air stone in there with them? Do I really need fish, or
can I feed them with Miracle Grow (or some such stuff)? It appears that the
fish treat this stuff like a cat does catnip, i.e., look what Mom bought us
to eat!!!! For something that doesn't have teeth (OK, pharyngeal don't
count), how do they take out those big bites???

Any pointers appreciated.

Lee