Duckweed: "Impossible to eradicate". Unless you have 2 goldfish. I covered my 40 gal with it for a goldfish snack and it was all gone within the week. Pigs. Lol.
There is a way to combat this, albeit not covering your tank completely. Simply make a floating raft frame with a net to keep the fish out of it. Of course, some fish might jump that boarder barrier and you may not find it aesthetically appealing, but if you must keep it for goldfish & don't have a second tank (or just can't be bothered), then this works (speaking from experience)
@@condorX2 could have been lol. I have a hard time keeping it in my turtle pond because of the strong filtration needed, just takes the stuff out sometimes. Not alot of slow moving water in my pond lol
And my blood parrot eat it a few times when they have fallen down when I do something in the aquarium. I personally love duckweed. Suspect some fish in my tank eat a lot since it hasn't gotten out of control
What about Watersprite? This is my #1 floating plant great at sucking up nitrates and nitrites, grows fast but can be kept in check. Great for male Bettas to build a bubble nest under and give his fry hiding places. Can be fed to chickens and goats if you have the livestock, or can be dug into your garden soil to enrich it with lots of nutrients. Can be composted easily and turned into fish/shrimp food just like duckweed by putting it in a blender and then backing the slurry until it flakes. Good food, as whole plants or leaves, for pet crabs and crayfish (red clawed or land hermit crabs, for example). Good habitat for live bearer fry, and their roots harbor aufwuchs and infusoria, good fry foods. #2 I also like water lilies with floating lily pads, though not technically a floating plant as the bulb or corm is burried or sitting on the substrate the leaves (lily pads) do float and the flowers are spectacular. #3 If you have an open top tank with a hanging light from the ceiling, you can try normal water lettuce which has beautiful crenelated leaves. #4 Any Salvina. #5 Banana plants, though like water lilies they do not actually float at the surface, but their leaves (pads) will reach for the surface just like water lilies. I had a question for you: have you ever grown any papyrus for African Congo river basin tanks? Definitely needs an open top tank though and is a perenial, dying back each "dry season".
I never even had to buy duckweed, I just scooped up some from a pond and took it home in a jar. It came with some interesting little buggies, probably mayfly larva, that my fish eventually ended up eating. I don't see why people hate it when you already have to do tank maintenance once a week or more. It's too easy to just scoop out the duckweed so it doesn't cover the tank. And as a bonus, it's edible! It's very high in protein and you can dry it off and put it on salad or in stir-fry like you would sprouts. Just make sure the water it's coming from is not polluted (or medicated).
I never even bought duckweed either. I bought a different plant, and I guessed the duckweed came along with it for the journey. I never had duckweed before and was very confused about how this plant multiplied so quickly
The only reason I got duckweed is because I have a BUNCH of big goldfish (and varieties) that LOVE the little bit I got stuck in the bag of my algae eaters. They eat it up super quick, and I love the protein in it... they don't go through as much tubifex or bloodworms when they have it.
@@viv8871 I'll keep that in mind. I'm considering a fantail tank, something small compared to the 120. Mostly, and this is when you have a problem, because of this beautiful gem like fine gravel at the LFS for way too much money.
I keep fancy goldfish, so I love duckweed. I have to keep it in other tanks and then move it over to the goldfish tank, because the goldfish can eradicate it in a matter of hours.
My goldfish cows eat everything I can't keep a single plant in their tank they even uprooted the lilypad ball and ate that down to nothing I'm going to get some of this for my 55 gallon tank and do what you do
wyzemann I put frogbit or duckweed in my goldfish tank and my goldfish have never had swimbladder. I can’t say if that’s why they haven’t though and they eat ALL of it so I keep having to buy more as I haven’t had success growing it in other tanks.
@@wyzemann it will neither help nor harm swim bladder issues. It's simply a high protein source that will fatten them up if you don't regulate how much access they have to it.
My personal favorite is antlerfern (ceratopteris pteridoides), a rare floating fern cousin of watersprite that produces many lateral fiddleheads growing emersed or submerged into full leaves. They produce many offshoots budding off of the leaves and starting root systems much like Java fern. Its root systems are short and the gaps between the leaves allows light to penetrate better than other floating plants. It makes the best bed for bettas too. Snails and other inverts (especially shrimp) love hitchhiking rides on them. Best still, they do not seem to eat the live leaves only the bacterial/algal film on them. I also really like Asian waterweed (hygroryza aristata). It's one of extremely few fully aquatic true grass species and its growth it horizontal and vining like red root floaters. Salvinia cucullata is one of my favorite plants and under high lighting conditions it produces a honeycomb-like growth. This video doesn't truly do it justice, but I'm glad that it's on your list because it's one of the best as far as I'm concerned.
Thank you, I needed this!!! my one floating plant is dying and nobody sells floating plants near me. My betta loves the floating ones. I'll definitely take a look at the site!
I love duckweed cause it lets more light through than the others, I still take it out when it gets thick. I had red root floaters and they got outcompeted by the duckweed, I'm down to one, they can't seem to get nutrients against it, I love duckweed though
I wish some store would sell _hygroryza aristata_ which is a grass that thrives as a floating plant in Asia. It looks like a bloated bamboo that sends dozens of roots if grown on water.
Duckweed is a funny plant. I doubt ducks ever eat it. But if you want something to cover the surface and shade it and cut off the oxygen, then duckweed is what you want... 😜
I agree with your choices! Awesome video!! By the way my mollies eat duck weed. Lol. If it gets out of hand in my other tanks I just put the excess in my molly tanks and they eat it up. Lol
Fluval flex 5 gallon built-in filtration system does a lovely job of sucking up duckweed. When I added my frog-bit, some duckweed went with it, but it's slowly but surely got sucked right into the filter intake, which was way too fine tooth for the from pit. No more duckweed!
I love duckweed because it really does help keep my water clean. I have a friend that has goldfish so I take my extra trimmings to him and his goldfish get a tasty treat.
Debit grows as fast as the rest. I clean out my floating plants twice a week. I have red root floaters, dwarf water lettuce and frogbit. Light also impacts how the water lettuce grows. If you leave a baby in your tank with bright light and nutrients the plant will get bigger. I had one get as big as a dinner plate. Flow doesn’t bother these plants as much as water splash. Water splash will rot most of these. Red root floaters need the right light to grow. Mine love the Hygger lights. Also to get the red to pop you need more light. My floating plants tend to double on the surface everyday, so as I said, I take plants out twice a week cutting back by half. Water lettuce is just as good as duckweed for filtering water. You have to let the roots grow though. I love my floating plants and so do fish and shrimp. If you have floaters on a shrimp take, be sure and shake the plants before removing as you will get shrimp in the roots and shrimp lets love the roots too. Just be careful when you thin out your floating plants.
Top tip to buying aquarium plants. Take all the rules people give you (other than water parameters etc.) and throw them out. Grow that duckweed. Grow that hornwort. Do what you want.
Duckweed is actually illegal to sell here in Malaga,spain. Went looking for it at 2 different aquarium stores last week and at both places they told me that here in Andalucia its illegal because its so invasive. So bought loads of Pistia seeds and some frogbits instead.
my problem with duckweed is if you dont have a cover for your filter the little duckweed will be sucked it and causing your filter to be jammed and you really need to cleean your filter frequently
I've had duckweed for weeks even months at a time never could get it to grow but now i have some tag along from a different plant I'm just hoping they grow 😉
All my red root floaters been great for half a year. They just made red islands topping on one another, untill they used all the excess nutrients and died.
I have a 5.5 gal tank, with a male betta and a nerite snail. I'm preparing to add three or so ghost shrimp, so I'm getting hiding places ready and making sure they're also safe for my betta. I have an amazon sword plant, some unidentified groundcover that I got from seeds from an app called "AliExpress" for like a quarter, and a huge mass of java moss that floats in the right side of my tank that my betta retreats to hide in. I've always thought it would be good to have floor, mid-level, and floating plants in my aquarium, and I'm only missing floating plants. I don't do water changes often, but my betta is always moderately active with a good appetite and solid healthy fins, and my snail keeps me from having to scrub my tank walls. Maybe I'll add frogbit to my aquarium next, as I've always wanted to have something my betta could flop up onto and rest on like I've heard other people's bettas doing. I hope to have a heavily planted aquarium, so that the bioload is eased and all my critters are free from stress with all the places to hide in.
Also, duckweed is native to many places and by very definition is NOT invasive. If you live somewhere its not native than yes it is invasive. It is the one plant on this list that is not invasive in the US.
Thank you for the video. I have a 60 gallon tank with South American cichlids in it. I tried changing the tank to a dirt substrate and adding plants but I could not keep up with the algae growth, so I switched to a sand substrate and again the algae was everywhere. Even the sand turned green. I do water changes and keep the parameters at good levels except for my Nitrates which are always high. My tap water comes out with high Nitrates. I have now gotten rid of live plants and switched to Caribe Sea cichlid gravel. I even tried to put in Pothis house plants on the top of the tank with just the roots in the water but they did not fair well either. Now I'm thinking of just going with floating plants like the Red Root Floaters you talked about? Can I mix these Red Root Floaters with some of the Salvinia cucullata or something else? Will these help with my Nitrate levels and Algae? Any suggestions appreciated.
frogbit is my favorite, but I can never seem to keep it growing. I have a few leaves left so I'm hoping they survive (sadly bought from a random seller online). But my other plants from you are finally producing new leaves. I'm still new to floating plants so thank you for this video!!
Noob question: do floating plants not stop the plants beneath them in the tank from getting light? Thinking of putting some in my tank, but i don't want other plants to suffer. Thanks.
B I’m not a pro so take what i day with a grain of salt but I think they do starve the plants at the bottom of light but you can get a little ring for the surface so the plants can still get light which might help you
it depends on the light requirements of the plants you keep in your aquarium! i've not had a problem with floating plants blocking the light so much that the plants below suffer and die, buy y'know being a beginner myself, the plants I bought for my aquarium are hardy and forgiving. it may pay to look up how much light your specific plants need though 👍🏻
Yes... or rather, they "can." See, some plants are called low tech, meaning they don't require a lot of light (or co2) & even they can be blacked out by the full coverage of say, duckweed. So two ways to work with floaters is to 1) restrict their movement (see other responses) or 2) consider low tech plants like some mosses for the substrate level.
Im 3 years late but loved the video. I like duckweed, water hyacinth, water lettuce, water sprite and frogbit. Never been able to get frogbit though just like the idea of it
i am really annoyed with the plants I have, they look like frogbit but get really long roots, they just keep growing and cover the whole aquarium in no time and grow into the substrat. can you reccoment some floating plants that dont get long roots? I have a 70 gallon aquarium and id like the roots not be longer than 10cm / 3-4 inches
I've found salvinia minima will out compete the duckweed in my tanks. I've only recently heard of salvinia cucullata. It's so hard to find! Glad to see some of my favorites on your list!
I love the Duck Weed for guppy fry. The first thing guppy fry do is float to the surface of the water. They will soon go off and hide but at first they float up and the Duck Weed gives them enough cover so they don’t get eaten right away by other fish in my tank. I also love how crystal clear my water has been since I accidentally got Duck Weed in my tank when buying Guppy Grass. I do realize I’ll be scooping and tossing often but I’m just enjoying it for now lol 😏 So…thanks for excluding Duck Weed 😉😉
I have giant duckweeds. It would be suitable to nano tank like batta fish tank although I don't have batta. The roots do not extend so long but absorbs excessive nutrition very well. So allege issue can be solved.
many years ago I stole a tiny bit of Salvina from the NYC botanical garden, so easy to grow, I just put in a plastic container on a window sil, and it just was so easy. Just keep the water up, obviously. salad for the goldfish!! all healthy and that. :)
I have freshwater angelfish and they need the shade from duckweed. When I have too much, I get an handfuls and feed my jewel cichlids with it. My cichlids goes crazy over duckweed.
Do the red root floater flowers have an aroma? BTW, I have gotten rid of duck weed very easily - in fact I have not even been able to keep duck weed alive - my hand on back filters suck it up & then it is all gone.
I have 3 large goldfish in a 40 gallon tank and sometimes get nitrate issues. So I just got some duckweed a couple days ago. Lets see how it work out. The goldfish really like to eat it.
I used to hate duckweed, then I discovered that shrimp love them, and will swim to the surface eat them. Eventually I threw my filter away when I learned about the benefits of having them in the tank. Like most weeds, amazing!
I have read that if you have multiple tanks, if one has duckweed, it’ll spread to all the tanks eventually, will this same issue occur with the frogbit or dwarf water lettuce or salvinia?
I know this video is old but I still want to cry on the Internet about my dying frogbit 😭 I don't know why but it's losing more and more roots, leaves are turning brown and they even came with unwanted snail eggs (just like the one in your video but many of them 🐌)
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Duckweed: "Impossible to eradicate". Unless you have 2 goldfish. I covered my 40 gal with it for a goldfish snack and it was all gone within the week. Pigs. Lol.
There is a way to combat this, albeit not covering your tank completely. Simply make a floating raft frame with a net to keep the fish out of it. Of course, some fish might jump that boarder barrier and you may not find it aesthetically appealing, but if you must keep it for goldfish & don't have a second tank (or just can't be bothered), then this works (speaking from experience)
Are you sure your filter wasn't the culprit? 🤣
@@condorX2 could have been lol. I have a hard time keeping it in my turtle pond because of the strong filtration needed, just takes the stuff out sometimes. Not alot of slow moving water in my pond lol
I saw one one of my Mollys eat duckweed a couple of times.
And my blood parrot eat it a few times when they have fallen down when I do something in the aquarium. I personally love duckweed. Suspect some fish in my tank eat a lot since it hasn't gotten out of control
am i the only one that likes the faster growing?... i like to trim them lol
Me
I leave for work and business
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LETS GROW
Lol me too
My betta sleeps on top of a frogbit leaf with just his head out of the water. It freaked me out the first time I caught him doing it
Wtf, :D
hahaha so funny
Lmao
Bruh I caught my betta taking Sun bathing on the stone. Only thing that was missing was the sun glasses
1:00 frogbit
2:20 dwarf water lettuce
3:46 red root floater
5:28 silvinia
7:35 duckweed
Thx
You tha real MVP 😎
blesu
Thanks
1:04- Frog bit
2:18- Dwarf water lettuce
3:45- Red Root Floaters
5:25- Salvinia cucullata
7:33- Duck weed
When you said superfood I thought you meant for people 😆
It is a superfood for people!
It's extremely high in protein, like red meat level. So yeah, it's a super food for humans as well...🤷🏾♂️
I immediately thought of trying to eat it!
Gianluca Ciocca It’s also a natural source of bio-available B12. Duckweed is great stuff! 😃 💖🍃🌸
It is lol
Just got red root and duckweed on eBay the other day for my first aquarium, a 20 long. Glad I picked well!
Essie S Ha Red Root Floaters are awesome. Duckweed I love too. I love seeing my shrimp climb on it.
What about Watersprite? This is my #1 floating plant great at sucking up nitrates and nitrites, grows fast but can be kept in check. Great for male Bettas to build a bubble nest under and give his fry hiding places. Can be fed to chickens and goats if you have the livestock, or can be dug into your garden soil to enrich it with lots of nutrients. Can be composted easily and turned into fish/shrimp food just like duckweed by putting it in a blender and then backing the slurry until it flakes. Good food, as whole plants or leaves, for pet crabs and crayfish (red clawed or land hermit crabs, for example). Good habitat for live bearer fry, and their roots harbor aufwuchs and infusoria, good fry foods.
#2 I also like water lilies with floating lily pads, though not technically a floating plant as the bulb or corm is burried or sitting on the substrate the leaves (lily pads) do float and the flowers are spectacular.
#3 If you have an open top tank with a hanging light from the ceiling, you can try normal water lettuce which has beautiful crenelated leaves.
#4 Any Salvina.
#5 Banana plants, though like water lilies they do not actually float at the surface, but their leaves (pads) will reach for the surface just like water lilies.
I had a question for you: have you ever grown any papyrus for African Congo river basin tanks? Definitely needs an open top tank though and is a perenial, dying back each "dry season".
Pup314 nice
I never even had to buy duckweed, I just scooped up some from a pond and took it home in a jar. It came with some interesting little buggies, probably mayfly larva, that my fish eventually ended up eating. I don't see why people hate it when you already have to do tank maintenance once a week or more. It's too easy to just scoop out the duckweed so it doesn't cover the tank. And as a bonus, it's edible! It's very high in protein and you can dry it off and put it on salad or in stir-fry like you would sprouts. Just make sure the water it's coming from is not polluted (or medicated).
Kaiser Frost Yep, would you rather scoop up some duck weed or perform a water change?
@@ericlind6581 i'd rather scoop it up
Im too worried about parasites to do that.
I never even bought duckweed either. I bought a different plant, and I guessed the duckweed came along with it for the journey. I never had duckweed before and was very confused about how this plant multiplied so quickly
That’s nasty hahah
You're Face Just Like Mr.crayfish
there's a snail on the frogbit ._.
Just say NO to duck weed... Dont fall victim to peer pressure
It's a gateway drug
Pier pressure is a terrible thing.
Could lead to a full blown goose cabbage addiction 😂
The only reason I got duckweed is because I have a BUNCH of big goldfish (and varieties) that LOVE the little bit I got stuck in the bag of my algae eaters. They eat it up super quick, and I love the protein in it... they don't go through as much tubifex or bloodworms when they have it.
@@viv8871 I'll keep that in mind. I'm considering a fantail tank, something small compared to the 120. Mostly, and this is when you have a problem, because of this beautiful gem like fine gravel at the LFS for way too much money.
I keep fancy goldfish, so I love duckweed. I have to keep it in other tanks and then move it over to the goldfish tank, because the goldfish can eradicate it in a matter of hours.
Darryl Moore Will duckweed help prevent or treat swim bladder issues in fancy goldfish?
My goldfish cows eat everything I can't keep a single plant in their tank they even uprooted the lilypad ball and ate that down to nothing I'm going to get some of this for my 55 gallon tank and do what you do
wyzemann I put frogbit or duckweed in my goldfish tank and my goldfish have never had swimbladder. I can’t say if that’s why they haven’t though and they eat ALL of it so I keep having to buy more as I haven’t had success growing it in other tanks.
@@wyzemann it will neither help nor harm swim bladder issues. It's simply a high protein source that will fatten them up if you don't regulate how much access they have to it.
deadfred821 Thank You
Awesome! I got some Red roof floater for free, I accidentally got it when I bought my fish
That's cool, but how did you accidentally get a plant?
@@briannawarren4174 they scoop up the plant by accident when I got my fish.
😂🍬
My personal favorite is antlerfern (ceratopteris pteridoides), a rare floating fern cousin of watersprite that produces many lateral fiddleheads growing emersed or submerged into full leaves. They produce many offshoots budding off of the leaves and starting root systems much like Java fern. Its root systems are short and the gaps between the leaves allows light to penetrate better than other floating plants. It makes the best bed for bettas too. Snails and other inverts (especially shrimp) love hitchhiking rides on them. Best still, they do not seem to eat the live leaves only the bacterial/algal film on them.
I also really like Asian waterweed (hygroryza aristata). It's one of extremely few fully aquatic true grass species and its growth it horizontal and vining like red root floaters.
Salvinia cucullata is one of my favorite plants and under high lighting conditions it produces a honeycomb-like growth. This video doesn't truly do it justice, but I'm glad that it's on your list because it's one of the best as far as I'm concerned.
Duckweed. seriously! Ok, I get it. But not my favorite. However will be reconsidering it as Goldfish are currently on my radar.
Thank you, I needed this!!! my one floating plant is dying and nobody sells floating plants near me. My betta loves the floating ones. I'll definitely take a look at the site!
I love duckweed cause it lets more light through than the others, I still take it out when it gets thick. I had red root floaters and they got outcompeted by the duckweed, I'm down to one, they can't seem to get nutrients against it, I love duckweed though
5:28 salvinia cucullata
Gonna try getting this.
I always wanted some frogbit
I LOOOVE Duckweed, for my projects! I'm super happy that it was your #1
I had duckweed in my tank and it just kinda disappeared. I even wanted it in my tank and all my other plants are doing fine
I wish some store would sell _hygroryza aristata_ which is a grass that thrives as a floating plant in Asia. It looks like a bloated bamboo that sends dozens of roots if grown on water.
Hygroryza
he ran out of breath so fast, you vape too much bro
Can you cut the root when too long?
I'm sorry but your audio makes this hard to watch.
Duckweed is a funny plant. I doubt ducks ever eat it. But if you want something to cover the surface and shade it and cut off the oxygen, then duckweed is what you want... 😜
Zom Bee Nature actually it’s called duckweed because ducks actually do love to eat it:
Ducks favourite!!!
Yumyum for ducks
Salvinia is amazing. in the dfw area its hard to find red roots right now
I agree with your choices! Awesome video!! By the way my mollies eat duck weed. Lol. If it gets out of hand in my other tanks I just put the excess in my molly tanks and they eat it up. Lol
Fluval flex 5 gallon built-in filtration system does a lovely job of sucking up duckweed. When I added my frog-bit, some duckweed went with it, but it's slowly but surely got sucked right into the filter intake, which was way too fine tooth for the from pit. No more duckweed!
No my favourite floating plants is duck weed
8:02, I think every other floating can do the same thing, with the added bonus that they aren’t so invasive in the aquarium.
my duckweed dies.. any reason?
i have LED light. run it for 10 hrs minimum.
i have spong filter with low bubble raise..
I love duckweed because it really does help keep my water clean. I have a friend that has goldfish so I take my extra trimmings to him and his goldfish get a tasty treat.
microphone makes weird noises ... was kinda distracting and not enjoyable
Frogbit roots can go up to 1.2ft. When he said duckweed, I ran away. 🤣🤣
Awesome information, thank you! Please go a little slower. Lol thank you so much
Debit grows as fast as the rest. I clean out my floating plants twice a week. I have red root floaters, dwarf water lettuce and frogbit. Light also impacts how the water lettuce grows. If you leave a baby in your tank with bright light and nutrients the plant will get bigger. I had one get as big as a dinner plate. Flow doesn’t bother these plants as much as water splash. Water splash will rot most of these. Red root floaters need the right light to grow. Mine love the Hygger lights. Also to get the red to pop you need more light. My floating plants tend to double on the surface everyday, so as I said, I take plants out twice a week cutting back by half. Water lettuce is just as good as duckweed for filtering water. You have to let the roots grow though.
I love my floating plants and so do fish and shrimp. If you have floaters on a shrimp take, be sure and shake the plants before removing as you will get shrimp in the roots and shrimp lets love the roots too. Just be careful when you thin out your floating plants.
Does ramshorn snail eat duckweed and frogbit?
I love all of these plants and something else; I LOVE your shirt....sorry not sorry lol
My goldfish didn't touch the duckweed i put in my pond. Now i have a duckweed blanket on my water and i can't see shit.
Duckweed!
Super food!
👍
Do you have to be licensed to sell aquarium plants typically?
Top tip to buying aquarium plants. Take all the rules people give you (other than water parameters etc.) and throw them out. Grow that duckweed. Grow that hornwort. Do what you want.
Frogbit sounds awesome
Duckweed is actually illegal to sell here in Malaga,spain. Went looking for it at 2 different aquarium stores last week and at both places they told me that here in Andalucia its illegal because its so invasive. So bought loads of Pistia seeds and some frogbits instead.
my problem with duckweed is if you dont have a cover for your filter the little duckweed will be sucked it and causing your filter to be jammed and you really need to cleean your filter frequently
can you recommend plant with high flow water?
My back yard pond is over grown with these floating plants
Give me
You should sell them
Parasites though
The only way I’d ever even consider gettin’ duck weed is if I had goldfish and I don’t right now
I've had duckweed for weeks even months at a time never could get it to grow but now i have some tag along from a different plant I'm just hoping they grow 😉
All my red root floaters been great for half a year. They just made red islands topping on one another, untill they used all the excess nutrients and died.
I have a 5.5 gal tank, with a male betta and a nerite snail. I'm preparing to add three or so ghost shrimp, so I'm getting hiding places ready and making sure they're also safe for my betta. I have an amazon sword plant, some unidentified groundcover that I got from seeds from an app called "AliExpress" for like a quarter, and a huge mass of java moss that floats in the right side of my tank that my betta retreats to hide in. I've always thought it would be good to have floor, mid-level, and floating plants in my aquarium, and I'm only missing floating plants. I don't do water changes often, but my betta is always moderately active with a good appetite and solid healthy fins, and my snail keeps me from having to scrub my tank walls. Maybe I'll add frogbit to my aquarium next, as I've always wanted to have something my betta could flop up onto and rest on like I've heard other people's bettas doing. I hope to have a heavily planted aquarium, so that the bioload is eased and all my critters are free from stress with all the places to hide in.
How did the betta react to the shrimp? I want to get some
@@Jose-ki6si careful it may go crazy
I absolutely love duck weed it is my favorite plant I feed it to my chickens they love it better than the fish too
Also, duckweed is native to many places and by very definition is NOT invasive. If you live somewhere its not native than yes it is invasive. It is the one plant on this list that is not invasive in the US.
Water hyacinth is my go-to and popular in my region.
What is a good floater for a tank with common goldfish?
Is that frog bit a special kind because it is huge mine are tiny they are healthy but smaller leaves
Silver dollars can eradicate duckweed as well.
Do you sell and ship plants?
I love plants but even from shops u always get snails which I hate
Thanks for the info on duck weed
I actually like duckweed. :(
Do you know here i can buy wollfia?
Scientific names my friend
I'm curious about keeping red root outdoors. I live half hour to an hour from the gulf coast. I just wonder what winter temperature is in the amazon.
Where can i buy this plants in LA?
Thank you for the video. I have a 60 gallon tank with South American cichlids in it. I tried changing the tank to a dirt substrate and adding plants but I could not keep up with the algae growth, so I switched to a sand substrate and again the algae was everywhere. Even the sand turned green. I do water changes and keep the parameters at good levels except for my Nitrates which are always high. My tap water comes out with high Nitrates. I have now gotten rid of live plants and switched to Caribe Sea cichlid gravel. I even tried to put in Pothis house plants on the top of the tank with just the roots in the water but they did not fair well either. Now I'm thinking of just going with floating plants like the Red Root Floaters you talked about? Can I mix these Red Root Floaters with some of the Salvinia cucullata or something else? Will these help with my Nitrate levels and Algae? Any suggestions appreciated.
Yes you can mix them and they'll do great work on your nitrates
I love duckweed
What type of silvinia is that?
frogbit is my favorite, but I can never seem to keep it growing. I have a few leaves left so I'm hoping they survive (sadly bought from a random seller online). But my other plants from you are finally producing new leaves. I'm still new to floating plants so thank you for this video!!
Red Root Floaters!!
Noob question: do floating plants not stop the plants beneath them in the tank from getting light? Thinking of putting some in my tank, but i don't want other plants to suffer. Thanks.
B I’m not a pro so take what i day with a grain of salt but I think they do starve the plants at the bottom of light but you can get a little ring for the surface so the plants can still get light which might help you
it depends on the light requirements of the plants you keep in your aquarium! i've not had a problem with floating plants blocking the light so much that the plants below suffer and die, buy y'know being a beginner myself, the plants I bought for my aquarium are hardy and forgiving. it may pay to look up how much light your specific plants need though 👍🏻
Yes... or rather, they "can." See, some plants are called low tech, meaning they don't require a lot of light (or co2) & even they can be blacked out by the full coverage of say, duckweed.
So two ways to work with floaters is to 1) restrict their movement (see other responses) or 2) consider low tech plants like some mosses for the substrate level.
What about azola??
i have low light , which will be the best ?
duck weed has great surface area
I like all those floating plants but red root is my favorite!
what are the optimal growth settings for red root? light? current? additives?
Thanks!!!
Im 3 years late but loved the video. I like duckweed, water hyacinth, water lettuce, water sprite and frogbit. Never been able to get frogbit though just like the idea of it
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Wait so you're telling me there's other floaters than frogbit and duckweed 😜
i am really annoyed with the plants I have, they look like frogbit but get really long roots, they just keep growing and cover the whole aquarium in no time and grow into the substrat. can you reccoment some floating plants that dont get long roots? I have a 70 gallon aquarium and id like the roots not be longer than 10cm / 3-4 inches
I've found salvinia minima will out compete the duckweed in my tanks. I've only recently heard of salvinia cucullata. It's so hard to find! Glad to see some of my favorites on your list!
My frogbit grows VERY fast! It grows from 20% surface area coverage to 100% in just 1 week. I have to remove it very often haha.
I love the Duck Weed for guppy fry. The first thing guppy fry do is float to the surface of the water. They will soon go off and hide but at first they float up and the Duck Weed gives them enough cover so they don’t get eaten right away by other fish in my tank. I also love how crystal clear my water has been since I accidentally got Duck Weed in my tank when buying Guppy Grass. I do realize I’ll be scooping and tossing often but I’m just enjoying it for now lol 😏 So…thanks for excluding Duck Weed 😉😉
OK so do these stay alive in cold Temps like below freezing
I have some tiny tiny black bugs on top of my mature frogbits...Anyone know if they are ok for my aquarium or....
I have giant duckweeds. It would be suitable to nano tank like batta fish tank although I don't have batta. The roots do not extend so long but absorbs excessive nutrition very well. So allege issue can be solved.
many years ago I stole a tiny bit of Salvina from the NYC botanical garden, so easy to grow, I just put in a plastic container on a window sil, and it just was so easy. Just keep the water up, obviously. salad for the goldfish!! all healthy and that. :)
I have freshwater angelfish and they need the shade from duckweed. When I have too much, I get an handfuls and feed my jewel cichlids with it. My cichlids goes crazy over duckweed.
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Do the red root floater flowers have an aroma? BTW, I have gotten rid of duck weed very easily - in fact I have not even been able to keep duck weed alive - my hand on back filters suck it up & then it is all gone.
I have 3 large goldfish in a 40 gallon tank and sometimes get nitrate issues. So I just got some duckweed a couple days ago. Lets see how it work out. The goldfish really like to eat it.
If purchased from a store or shipped, Can duckweed be bleach dipped before adding to aquarium ?
I used to hate duckweed, then I discovered that shrimp love them, and will swim to the surface eat them. Eventually I threw my filter away when I learned about the benefits of having them in the tank. Like most weeds, amazing!
If you have Koi they need and love Duck weed
I have read that if you have multiple tanks, if one has duckweed, it’ll spread to all the tanks eventually, will this same issue occur with the frogbit or dwarf water lettuce or salvinia?
I know this video is old but I still want to cry on the Internet about my dying frogbit 😭 I don't know why but it's losing more and more roots, leaves are turning brown and they even came with unwanted snail eggs (just like the one in your video but many of them 🐌)
I love frogbit so much, but where I live, it's illegal to have :( I was so disappointed when I found out