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Thank youuuu, this was SO helpful for a novice like me

Best video I've ever seen on Duckweed. I learned a ton very quickly. Everyone should watch this. Straight and to the point. Great info!

and if the apocalypse comes this stuff is edible and full of vitamins lol

I was so confused why my duckweed doesn’t grow and only dies. I use hang on back filters and ugh now I know why it dies. Thank You for the information I do really appreciate it!

Top easy to keep floating plants. Best for breeding. Best sharing

I like duck weed, as Cam said increase the flow to control it. It looks good in a heavily planted tank, in my case with swordtails

Hi there, thank you for the video/info. Got some questions, if you don't mind. I'm less interested in growing fish, but more the duckweed itself. I live in central VA where the climate is mostly moderate, and I plan to put some containers outside in mostly shade/partial sun. I was thinking that it might be a good idea to put a relative few fish in there with the duckweed as a food source (their poop), and in turn, I figured the fish could eat the duckweed and whatever insects or the like get in there. Does this sound feasible, and what would be a good kind of fish to put in there? I don't want them to eat too much of the duckweed since I'm harvesting it (obviously I will keep the number of the fish down). I know that duckweed likes a high nutrient environment and before the fish start a'pooping enough, I figured I would put some good composted soil on the bottom to start up the nutrient process. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. Cheers.

i got suprise duckweed from something else. 10g tower tank running an ugf + box filter with filter foam, so relatively slow water flow. I had dwarf water lettuce as a floating plant and suspect the duckweed had hitched a ride on decor. over a couple weeks, the water lettuce all died off and the duckweed clumped up in the corners while hair algae expoded in the tank. Physically removed the algae and dialed my light time on from 12 hours to just 7. Hair algae has mostly cleared up. Tank has several anubias on driftwood, rim to rim duckweed, a shoal of 7 glowlight tetras and at least five bladder snails. Used to have a dwarf gourami in there too, but she only lasted 6 months.

I had trouble keeping it for years. I finally made one of my takes a community aquarium. Now I can keep some. I still have my other tanks that have tilapia and a pond that has koi. Anything outside the community tank can’t keep it. The fish eat it within a few days.

Can you feed it to poultry as scooped from the water, as is, or does it need some treating or drying first?

Hello, I have a water filter in my aquarium which makes little flow in the surface of the water. Not very much. But still noticeable. Will that condition is suitable for the growth of duckweed

Really helpful! Thankyou

Def love my giant duckweed, even tho is has consumed the entire top of my large bichir tank.

I just got duckweed from a guy but he said it would take 2 weeks to fill half a tank. He did have his tank in airated tanks and there was very little light so I'm hoping by putting it in the sun it grows fast cause I want it for chickens and ducks.

Cool vid thank you! Do you sell it too.

I love duckweed but have never managed to get it to grow very fast. The way people talk about it it's like it's some feral beast that will take over yoir tank overnight, I've kep it in a couple different aquariums and my frog vivarium and it grows slower than literally everything else 😭 I have good lighting, very little surface agitation and fertilize, nitrates never drop below 5 so not like it's starving

Hello, I am a big fan of your videos on KZfaq. I am a master’s student in environmental engineering from Iraq. I have research on the effectiveness of Duck Weed in treating wastewater, but the type of Duck weed is not known to me. Is it possible for me to send you a picture of my plant and give me its type, since you are very knowledgeable For botany with my sincere regards

Muje ye plant dona please paise se

I had duckweed cake for breakfast in Vietnam today.