How to Grow Duckweed - Good vs Bad? If you’re having issues keeping this plant alive in your aquarium these tips and tricks and keeping Duckweed alive will really help. I also talked about a lot of variables people don’t think of like water agitation and types of lighting and the different hates that you keep your aquarium light at.
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I got some wild duckweed from a pond nearby. I’ve read conflicting reviews on using wild duckweed and what to do before introducing it to my tank. Curious what y’all have to say.
Before you add it.. Remember when you decide you no longer like it and rather try a new floating plant or non at all. It will always come back, just when you thought you picked every single last tiny piece! It just randomly appears again! Or atleast that’s what I have found.
Yeah we get it in on other plants we've bought. I've got fish that'll eat it, so I just take a net full out when I think there's too much and feed it to my other fish.
The stream of the filter forces it down into the tank and it goes everywhere. It ends up clogging the intake part of your filter if the tank isn't big enough.
Yeah well that doesn't sound fun! I could see that happening in the danio tank. Their flake food goes everywhere if i don't shut the bubbler and filter off while they eat. So i picture the same thing happening with the plants.
Yeah mine did to until I grew it in a separate tank and now I have enough even if they eat some they can’t get it all. I also started feeding my snails and they don’t eat it as much. They really like zucchini.
I mean, kinda....I've read its a good floater plant. I've got some bettas and danios that i think would like it. I'm just starting the live plant stuff. I've got a sweet potato that seems to be doing good and some lucky bamboo. Ask on my town page if anyone had some floaters or knew where to get some and a lady said there was some in a nearby pond.
But none of the big box places carry floaters around here and our local fish store needs to be shut down. I'm somewhat rural so I'm guessing I'll have to order some. I also noticed you don't have a lid. Was that for the picture or that's how it always is? I have some jumpers so i have to keep a lid on.
The roots are pretty fragile tho and if lightly touchy they break off causing a bit of a mess at the filter intake but they seem to help my tank with nitrate removal.
Duckeeed is a fast growing plant and it will spread like wildfire.. although it removes nitrates effectively, it also block light.
In some countries like USA (Florida), and some parts of Australia this plant has been banned due to its fast spreading!
Well I started with red root floaters and they are great! Had one piece of duckweed that I knew I should have pulled out. Went on vacation for 6 days and now it completely covered my tank and no matter how much I try to get rid of it I can’t.
I love my duck weed but I’ve had to get creative to keep it away from my filter out flow to prevent it from getting in my decorations I have my filter pickup underneath my gravel so there is no way it would get into my intake.
It’s easy to grow. Too easy and it’s hard to get out of your tank once you have it. The only way I found to “control” it was to use surface agitation which it doesn’t like. It’s not that they are bad for the tank but a lot like adding dandelions to you lawn in my opinion.
I have it in my 75 gallon. The hob filter forces everything to one side, which I love cuz I have one side heavy plants and the other side open. I have hornwort underneath the duckweed. The roots like kinda press against it keeping it all in place. If it gets outta control, just take a couple cups of it out.
Hoping somebody can help me please been set up nearly 4 weeks have white Mountain minnows in using stability done 50 percent water changes what else can I do please to get these levels right ?