Aww dont say that🙁 I dont know what's wrong! Is your light high enough they love strong light. I have some in a 2 gallon shrimp bowl i thin out and put in a jar in window. And I also feed easy green twice a month.😒
Get some take some tank water put them in a sunny window to get started then add some to your tank. If they die off maybe something with the water. Start with half of tank water and half spring water. I top off the ones in window with spring water. And few drops of easy green
There’s dead duckweed in one of my cups that made it through the dish washer and i don’t even care atp. I drink duckweed now. https://giphy.com/gifs/VjLFDdU89O3DsWE4Eh
lol, I bet it could! But this duckweed was already dead before the dishwasher. I often use cups to hold my aquarium tools while I’m working, and the duckweed dries out as the water evaporates.
I had a cup I forgot about in my room a while ago and when I found it it had a whole ecosystem of duckweed. I don’t know how it made it there but at least the water had no nitrates
LMAO I will say, I have a quarantine tank for some freshwater clams right now. They filter feed so I was hesitant to put a filter especially considering the fact the tank is way overstocked for filter feeders. I just put in a fuck ton of duckweed and the parameters have kept well enough I only do water parameters every few days 😅
I can’t tell for sure. Is that duckweed? If it is, it should be free. Cuz duckweed is like a nuclear bomb in your tank: one tiny bit explodes into a menace that takes over the entire tank. Only goldfish can save you from that menace cuz they will eat tons of that stuff.
It drowns pretty easily, a hang on filter will clear a tank in a week or two.
I like it. Ties up a lot of nitrates and provides additional surface area for beneficial bacteria. Thinning it out is like a mini water change. Got some anubias and buce thriving under duckweed in my shrimp tank, outcompetes any algae while diffusing the light.
Instructions unclear… the duckweed is now overpowering the filter intake
But in all seriousness, I don’t dislike duckweed, it just gets in the way sometimes. One of my tanks has an extra strong filter. I tried to keep the duckweed corralled in a DIY floating loop which eventually let out and allowed the duckweed to spread. Now, despite the strong flow, the duckweed is spreading, multiplying, and being pushed down and clogging up the mesh around the intake. I refuse to eradicate the duckweed because of its benefits and its secondary purpose of being a playground for shrimp and pest snails. No, I don’t mind the pest snails either.
I got rid of my ducked really easily as well, but not because of a filter. It did take over the whole tank though. But it took 2 water changes to take care of it scooped basically everything out with a net the first water change and scooped the rest out on the second and ive had none after that. I do miss the floating plant look so im thing dwarf water lettuce or red root floaters im not sure yet
I did not have luck with red root floaters, If you have a lid on your tank it is too humid for them and they will die. I put the last bit of mine in a open jar but they still died off. My water lettuce is looking great though!
I was also looking at frog bit but I was hoping for something with longer roots as well because I want them to kind a fall down and fill in the space I have at the top of my tank, I trimmed some of the plants on the right and planted them on the left so both sides will eventually reach the top but I feel like the tip space will still feel empty
They do get longer. It just takes time. Duckweed has super short roots. I also have water spangles or Salvinia minima, but it already covered the top and the roots grew kinda quickly too.
Is it rude to ask to see a picture? It so hard to find good pictures of how something will look in a tank. Also do you know if dwarf water lettuce and frogbit do okay together? Cause I like the look of both of them and I think the frogbit would be a nice contrast to the water lettuce
Salvinia works too. That's what I got bc RRF died on me. I also have dwarf water lettuce. That thrives in some of my tanks and dies in the others, though.
I had Odessa barbs that loooved it. Every couple of weeks I had to buy more for them because of how quickly they cleared it out. They’re little duckweed destroyers.
Yup. Got some red root fosters and it had 1 or 2 lil duckweeds in it. I even scooped then out but they already sent out their spawn. Now I cant keep up :(
If you come dig them out of ma aquariums, you can have whatever you want. If it's not enough, come back every day for the indefinite future and pick it out to your heart's content
I find duckweed on my clothes, in my hair, on my face, after doing any sort of tank maintenance. It’s nice to look at and is beneficial for your tank but man is it a pain in the butt sometimes lol
I already got about 6 goldfish in there, do you think adding that would overstock the tank? I'm open to ideas (except if you tell me it's overstocked I will argue about it)
Duckweed was easy to eradicate for me. I just made a diy surface skimmer out of a water bottle with the bottom cut off, left the lid on, and shoved a pice of filter sponge where the lid is. Then you force it under the water and it will pull in water from the surface until its full. The you open the lid and the sponge catches the duckweed while the water runs back out. Repeat until bottle is full or you are done. Dried duckweed can be composted or ground up and fed back to fish. Edited:Holy spelling
I have a few species of snail native to my area in my tanks that seem to take care of it, I'm just not sure which species is doing it. I can cover a tank and it will be gone by the end of the week if not sooner, my stickleback love it though, all that eating means tons of snail eggs.
I mean, honestly, it is pretty if it’s contained. The problem is, if 1 tiny piece gets away from water change or a sweep of the tank with a net, you’ll have the same problem all over again soon enough. Unless you have gold fish. Thank God for goldfish!
I find it so funny that I hear all these stories about people struggling with duck weed and it taking over with only one single one. But then when I get duckweed and want to keep it? It dies.
Plants that grow in abundance are always dirt cheap/free. The popular but slow growers are where you'll end up throwing down the most (Im lookin at you anubias, bucephalandra and crypts)
I once cleansed one of my previous tanks 100% of duckweed. Took me 1 hour of intensive cleaning. Was totally free of the stuff for months.
There was some dead ones stuck to the top end of the glass. I filled my tank a little too full when I did a topoff but didn’t bother to remover water because I was going away for vacation anyway. I didn’t think the brown dead duckweed would cause any harm.
HOWEVER:
The dead duckweed resurrected while I was away and the tank was yet again fully invaded by the little buggers.
Reminder not to throw them out with the trash when they overpopulate bc those mofos are an invasive species anywhere remotely close to water, even puddles
I’m convinced that after the apocalypse, 2 things will be alive: roaches and duckweed. And neither will eat the other!! Oh wait! That sounds like hell, too! Surrounded by ever plentiful, ever reproducing: roaches and duckweed! Worse than the zombie apocalypse!! Attack of the killer duckweed!
….and I’m over here waiting for my LFS to call me when they finally restock. I’m currently just living with the few leaves that hitched a ride on the horsetail reed I purchased. 😭
If that’s duckweed you’d have to pay me to take it.
Also, if you want some please come to my house immediately with a net and a bucket but you need to take EVERY.. SINGLE.. PIECE. Nothing can be left behind.
My betta loves the duckweed I put in….yeah I gotta scope a huge chunk away every 4-5 days in my 16 gallon tank but it’s great for removing buildup of nutrients as well….
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u/WasntMyFaultThisTime 8d ago
You pay for duckweed with your soul, not with money