Biologist On Here?

Need some true information on this freeze effecting the Salvania outbreak. Need confirm a few answers

I have not thought about may be a good thing after all

I know there's a couple on here from tpwd but I think they are game wardens. A few pond management guys as well but not that kind of biologists. Might look up pondboss, Bob Lusk, and ask him this question. I know for sure he knows who you are searching for.

Also might try Dr. Ruth Francis Floyd from The University of Florida's fisheries dpt if she's still there. Spent a decade working with her with necropsies and such. With the vegetation there she would know. Please let me know what you find.

Thanks fellas

Wish David Campbell was still alive. He would know for sure.

Tom Hungerford posts on here every once in awhile. Think he goes by the name Fishnman or something like that. Might try him.

I am a semi retired mailman so I know everything.

Seriously I've read that cold weather does not hurt it that much unless the lakes are low and the exposed salvinia dries out. I hope thats wrong.

It will knock it back quite a bit but not kill it from what I read the other night.

Contact this guy, he is a Marine Biologist

I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night

Acute-exposure studies found that -16C for 48 hours could destroy giant salvinia, with ice formation as an important factor in below-freezing temperature events.

https://www.apms.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/v42p91.pdf

Thanks Hop but I would just as soon we did not go there!

Just as soon we did not go to 48 hours of below 3.2 degrees F just to kill the giant salvinia, make sense now?

I thought hop was a weather man until I met him trying to sell me a gun...smdh....

you and me both! had all that I could stand in colorado and then some. lol

when did we do this?

Bps gvine. A few yrs ago. Ruger 380

No soup for you

Is that a Titleist?.......... Hole in one!

Hi Mudd- I think we met a couple of years at the Lake Fork OT get together.

I work with some of the best fisheries biologists in Texas. I'm happy to help if you're still looking for information.

"Giant salvinia survives freezing temperatures," he said. "If ice forms on the water and maintains for about 72 hours, the plants will die.

http://caddolakedata.us/media/2841/...ct%20on%20giant%20salvinia%2014jan09.pdf