for all you Duckweed haters.

mellowvision

mellowvision

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May 17, 2007
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I think, since I've started using excel, my duckweed has almost all died off. It's possible my fish are eating it, because I feed them sparingly... but I haven't seen that happen. I know I've removed quite a bit lately, but it used to spread like wild fire and hasn't at all. I can only think of the excel as a reason.

Anyone else have similar experiences?
 
midiamin said:
Aah, why get rid of it. It's da best goldfish/koi food on the planet, ackage it and sell it!
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I can vouch for the goldfish food aspect... mine ate it up pronto. Don't know about the Excel, or water movement for that matter. I do have tanks where it does better than in other tanks. I haven't been able to attribute it to anything in particular, as my tanks are all very similar with respect to temp, light, etc. and I rarely use ferts.....haaayyyy, now that you mention it, my little Dwarf Puffer tank had more Duckweed die off than the other tanks and it is one where I recently added a bit of PlantGro. So maybe it's the ferts after all.
 
I expect you are right about the excel, it can kill or harm other sensitive plants too like vallis. True goldfish love the stuff.
 
wtf is duckweed plz post a pic i would apreciate it.
 
*googled it* Ohhhhh, so that's what that stuff was that came with my last plants! I thought it was cute and hoped it would multiply, but it's slowly disappeared from getting stuck to my arms and syphon during maintenance. I use Excel in all my tanks. I never noticed the "duckweed" looking bad. I just never saw it propagate.
 
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