Never letting duckweed grow in a tank again...

sorberj

sorberj

wannabe fish whisperer
Sep 14, 2009
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Grrr....I just spent the last hour removing duckweed from a 20 gallon. To be fair it wasn't very planted when the duckweed got in there and I didn't pay much attention to it because I wasn't doing much with the tank at the time.

I'm fully expecting some more time standing over it with as some that was trapped under the surface emerges. That stuff is a menace.

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I wonder if I could mount lasers on the shrimp in the tank. Then they could zap the stuff.

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and yet we still occasionally see plaintive requests from misguided souls to actually buy the infernal vegetation. Duckweed, as we have patiently explained, is OF THE DEVIL and the correct response to its presence is to dust off and nuke it from orbit, just to be sure.

i finally managed to annihilate the last of it from my fw 10g a couple of months ago. At the cost of losing all my riccia (with which it was irrevocably intertwined) and nearly all my other worthwhile plants as well. Now the foliage consists almost entirely of black beard algae and this green hair stuff that floats off the walls like very damp green cotton candy. Attractive yet ugly at the same time. Still...it is better than duckweed.

best wishes. Know that you fight on the side of Right and the struggle is worth it. :)
 
I'm currently on the same mission to remove it from all my tanks. I'm (5) tanks clean now with six to go.
 
I've always heard this...but it's not a problem for me. I think maybe I have enough filter stirring it around that it just doesnt take. I have it in a 5g that has no filter and it's seriously thick! But all my other tanks, even when accidently introduced it never makes it!
 
I live my duckweed it only will stay in certain areas around the edge of my tank where the hob filters don't create surface movement. It sucks up extra nutrients that algae use to grow. I just scoop some out now and then to thin in. It's like macro algae that you would use in a sw tank


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