I have three tanks of Gourami and I put duck weed in there for breeding. It disappears with in a few days. Are the Gouramies eating it or is it dying?
My Duck weed is gone
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Yes.
Gouramis need plants like anubis to breed in. Much hardier, but harder to accumulate a large quantity of unless you are very patient.
Gouramis need plants like anubis to breed in. Much hardier, but harder to accumulate a large quantity of unless you are very patient.
small stalks of floating watersprites, rooted/rooting, worked very well for most bubblenesters. & they grow and spread so well without much efforts.!
I don't know why I can't keep it growing I have other plants that are doing well. I am just wondering why I have to keep replacing it. One fish store gave me a whole cup of it and it lasted a month and now I have very little left.
if it's dissapearing, they might be swallowing it, but mine really just like to move it into their nest.
You could have too much flow at the surface, duckweed prefers slower waters.
You could have too much flow at the surface, duckweed prefers slower waters.
DW is so prolific that most people curse having it. Usually very hard to get rid of and since yours disappears, the likely culprits are your fish.
I had some in a betta tank (undergravel filter) and it disappeared to. The bettas would only try eating it once LOL, then left it alone. I was hoping to grow some for the pond, guess not. (Watersprite also dies off faster than it grows, don't know why..)
I can only guess, but I'd think it's possible that at least 3 things are happening to your duckweed:
1. they are eating some of it
2. some is dying
3. some gets in the filter, then dies
4. some might be getting in the nests
(no, I can't count lol)
It grows like mad in my 10g. I just net out the excess and put it in my 50g for my Rainbows to munch on. It doesn't last a day in there.
