I have never owned a fish in my life, nor an aquarium. But I really really want to, and have been sponging so much info from you since I discovered this channel maybe a week ago. It's great.
I like red root floaters for this as they are easier to control and don’t magically spread like mad to all your tanks. But I do agree, duckweed does look nice.
I kind of hate it and love it the same time. I would like to keep because it looks nice keeping the nitrites low it but it grows a very thick mat sucking all the light and nutrients from the other plants and I am too lazy to keep it under control.
Yeah duckweed can really block a lot of light from the water. On the other hand, because duckweed multiplies so insanely fast, it also filters the water extremely fast, since it only feeds from the water column. I heard that it can even remove cobalt from the water... but enough is definitely enough ;)
I find a cheap, fine-tooth, plastic comb works great for smaller tanks and eliminates the possibility of accidentally picking up smaller fish/fry. I like to use the stuff I remove as mulch for my house plants. I find a nice mat of dried duck weed helps retain moisture in the soil.
I had put some duckweed in my goldfish tank yesterday, and today I noticed it was all gone. LOL Father Fish just confirmed why. Now I know that when I want to thin the duckweed in my other tanks, I can just give it to my goldfish as a snack. Wonderful! (I like duckweed. I even gathered some yesterday from a creek.)
I tried the same thing, I had not a chance growing it out in my goldfish tank 😂 I just grow it out in other tanks and outdoor tubs. I just scoop out and feed it once I have too much. 😊
@@Twinkley1981 Goldfish are hard on most plants it seems. Once a month I take plants from my outdoor pond and put them in my indoor goldfish aquarium. Gives them something to chew on. LOL
I harvest it once a month. Dry it all out on a plate in a window sill. Crush it up into powder. Mix it into minced raw fish, some fresh minced garlic and spurlina flakes. Freeze it all in sandwhich bags and feed a piece to the big aquarium every other day or so. The smaller cichlids, and cory cats go nuts for that mixture.
Thank you for teaching us how to get rid of duckweed. This is much easier than what I have been doing. I grow it in all my tanks for my chickens. My chickens love this stuff.
I tried using a hair comb to get the duckweed out of my tanks and that works also! Another fish keeper recommended this. I've found duckweed helps to get a tank cycling quicker. But I like the bigger floating plants a bit better.😊
I love duck weed. I grow it in my other tanks to scoop out and feed to my fancy goldfish. I find turning my pump off to stop it moving around helps when scooping it out.
Ι put duck weed in my tank, while i had severe algae issue. Within a week the algae is half of what it was. It is dying in real time, i can see it dying. Of course i keep it in control but another good aspect of it is that my angelfish are eating it like crazy and staying away from the hygrophyla, which was severely struggling from angels eating it. Now it is growing nice and healthy. When the plants take of i will try to reduce it or even eliminate it. I'll see.
@FatherFish i had a friend insisting for me to do it and i am really glad i did! It just needs control. As i say, god knows what he made and why! We just need to find out....🙂
I understand the problem, but we forget that it is most efffective way to "suck" up nutrients from the water aswell and even it at end will "black out" the light it can balance the ecosystem father.
I usually keep a plastic ring which is an inch thick and keep the floating plants inside them so that way you can remove or trim them whenever they overflow
What perfect timing. I was talking to Dina about this just a couple of days ago. ❤🐻
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Some great alternatives to floating duckweed are frog bit, water sprite, and guppy grass. They’ll act as nutrient sponges and are easy to grow but can be easily removed when they fill the aquarium.
Duckweed is the best thing ever.. Why? Because it let's you run a tank almost forever without water changes, and have a very healthy ecosystem. Just because of the reason you list.. The duckweed absorb excess nutrients in the water.. You add food to feed your fishes, they poop, the bacteria in your filters etc converts that to nitrates, which the plants use.. The duckweed grows, and you scoop it out once a week and dump it in the trash.. You then have a balanced ecosystem. I ran a 150l aquatium for more than a year without waterchanges, highly stocked, and the fish thrived like crazy.
Duckweed, I like it for my shrimp, but my other tanks do not need it haha. Once when I was brushing my hair, I found duckweed in it lol. 😅It haunts me haha. Thanks for the video!
Everyone who likes duckweed, have fun watching it take over the entire top of your tank and overtake any and all other types of floaters, and once it's in your tank, you'll never get it out
Haha you're so funny Lou, it does have its benefits all the same. I recall you mentioning in past times that a mechanical filter will eradicate it quickly as doezn't enjoy moving water. I just found some wild duckweed along with wild snails and have them in my 30 litre. I think its pretty cool but everyone has their preferences.
My duckweed keeps my plants from growing out of my tank. You just have to scoop a good portion of it out once a week. Its also helps with the fish waste.
If you disturb the water surface with air stone or other means, it will discourage it. Duckweed does not like moving water. The goldfish is a good idea. Maybe buy a Comet Goldfish for a few pennies and put it in there. :) BTW, Duckweed can be a real life-saver in a dirty tank. It will eat the pollution like crazy. I don't mind a little in the tank. The worst thing about it is when the filter outfall or some other flow pushes the Duckweed down into the plants and it gets stuck under water.
My solutions for duckweed are Buenos aires tetras and my hands. 😁 For the latter, I use the duckweed "ability" to stuck to the hand/arm, collect all I can find, bring my arm over the toilet bowl, pour some water and off they go. Alternatively, for those that have gardens, you can use the water pouring trick to...well, water your plants. 🤓
Duckweed is an issue in most of my fish tanks. Only in paludarium (too dark for duck weed) and large tank with Angelfish and Black skirt tetras it's not an issue (they eat it). I heard it may disappear if the water becomes too soft or when it's missing certain nutrients, but the latter may affect other plants. I hate when duckweed appears in a tank with guppies or shrimp. It's way too easy to catch some while using net. Currently I use wooden stick (skewer) or my fingers, but I heard hairbrush works the best to remove it.
I guess that explains why I don't have any duckweed in my 75 gal tank. I have both Angels (small) and Black Skirt Tetras in that tank. But my 5 gallon quarantine tank has tons of it. I dip most of it out periodically.
I found Malawi chic lids eat it. , but in some circumstances it’s a good thing. Dry it and use it as fish food for mollies or to start infusoria cultures for fish fry.
If you have hermit crabs, they love duckweed (at least mine do). I've also noticed in one of my tanks the salvinia minima seems to have outcompeted the duckweed and in another water lettuce thrives but not the duckweed.
I DO get too frustrated😅 I’ve got plants and tubes and driftwood that stick out the top so it makes it very tricky. I don’t mind having duckweed but I just wish I didn’t have to do it so often or else my plants below don’t get much light
Usually I scoop out the excess , i leave an area within a specific area with a DIY floating device made from pipe ... the excess I removed , I let it dry under direct sunlight or the aquarium light ... when I have a good amount, I put them in the microwave, then in the grinder to make it like a powder ... and I give some little spoon to the fish or shrimp as snack ... they absolutely love it like crazy 😂😂😂 ... Guess I'll give more to the goldfish
I got some from some fosh i bought and its almost completely gone.. not sure what happened but i do have my filter set to the max output so maybe it doesnt like the agitation of the water
What do i do that whenever I actively put duckweed in a tank, like in a new tank to control nitrates, it allways dies off somehow some time after once stablished. Until that very moment, this is pretty much how you deal with this lovely crazy growing plant!
I literally had to do this in my microfauna tank yesterday omg that darn stuff grows so fast. I dont even put it in my 55 or my 10 gallon betta tank. Know i use hornwort and salvania floating plant i got from you father fish. Cause i got tired of having to do that everyweek with the duckweed
I prefer Salvinia minima & Limnobium laevigatum since they're bigger and therefore it's easier to get rid off excessieve amounts.
24 дня назад
American/Florida flag fish (Jordanella floridae) love to eat duckweed. I place a school of them in my aquariums to tackle hair algae and duckweed. They’ll destroy it all in a few days. Here in Florida we can trap our own with minnow traps in any freshwater but outside of Florida most pet stores can get them for you.
I discover the goldfish tip by myself, because im a newbie who dont know anything. I love you video but dont understand if you have pump or not because your tank water is moving and bubbling. I want start a natural and seek for a real step by step (not the big lines you repeats, i get them)
I thought I would never see FF been triggered like that about a plant 😂 I think duckweed is a really cool plant for it's ability to grow and maintain good quality of water buuut it can become a mess if it doesn't get along with your tank set-up
Well, basically my solution to it is the same but a lot easier 😉...after skimming most of the duckweed, I put a water surface skimmer attached to a filter..I kinda made a DIY duckweed trap before the water inlet...I also made sure to find a way that other plants' leaves are away from the surface temporarily..then every after 24 hours, I clean out the trapped duckweed. After a week or less, the whole infestation is solved. Then I remove the skimmer. Also, I use a different skimming net per tank to avoid further contamination. Easy.
I liked duckweed until I needed to remove it from a shrimp tank. Persistence is indeed the key. Used a measuring cup and net. Used the water flow into the cup to force the duckweed into it. Kept a careful eye for shrimp. Would dump into the net and removed it all that way. Would find more through the following weeks and did a couple more times
I'd imagine it would be very hard to remove duckweed without loosing shrimplets. I vacuum my internal filter and almost always find shrimplets in my bucket that are very hard to see and tricky to catch.
@ I imagine I did lose some but hopefully minimal. Great thing about the cups, use a clear one and you can hold it up to see if there’s anything swimming around. White one, the shrimp stick out like a sore thumb on the bottom.
I'm so amazed how u could still handle with your tanks without hurting your back back.... I'm in my late 30th with 40 tanks... maintaining all my tanks..hurt my back alot😂😂😂😂
@@DashDrones Duckweed DOES NOT block enough light to make a difference. My plants FLOURISH under as carpet of duckweed. All you duckweed naysayers are doing something wrong.
You should start growing it to use it as a resurce, then it will become impossible to keep alive 😂 but seriously, I find using a pocket comb and/or surface scimmer to be much easier and effective than using a net 😊
Yeah it floats but it can stick to something on the bottom and bide its evil little time 'til you're not looking and two weeks later your tank is covered in it again. The best thing to do with riccia is just pinch off a small amount you know doesn't have dw in it and let that grow out in a dw free tank. It grows fast. Trying to get the dw out of the riccia is just about impossible. There's always one in there biding its time. I propogate a small bit of it and throw out the rest 'cause I know there's dw hiding in it.
My black skirt tetras and my Australian rainbow fish constantly ate my duck weed matter of fact sometimes I would feed it out of my other tanks just to feed them
I have to disagree. Duckweed is the Aquarists best friend IMO, and not a scourge at all. My plants are SUPER THICK despite a dense carpet of duckweed on the surface. It obviously doesn't do a very good job of blocking the light. If I could keep only one plant species it would be duckweed. I ordered some plants from Aquarium co-op and I was super lucky to find one duckweed in the order. Now all my tanks are blessed and my outdoor ponds too. Maybe because duckweed can do it all by itself is why PEOPLE WHO SELL PLANTS hate it. Duckweed IS the ultimate solution. I have MAD THICK dwarf saggitaria, annubias nana and bacopa(?) UNDER a thick canopy of duckweed using only a home depot led strip plant light. My first video is going to have to be about DUCKWEED.... dispelling all the lies and misinformation surrounding it. It's like ANY kind of work is too much (getting rid of it, keeping it down) for some people. I've been in this hobby for over 50 years Father Fish and you've extolled the great walstadt method but you are WRONG about duckweed. HEALTHY and NATURAL outdoor ecosystems have duckweed on their surface. It only gets X thick and blocks only X much light. Duckweed is a first world aquarists (non) problem.
Feather fish thank you so much for teaching us and I love duckweed. Mystery snails also love duckweed and you can even watch them digest it on the side of the tank
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I have never owned a fish in my life, nor an aquarium. But I really really want to, and have been sponging so much info from you since I discovered this channel maybe a week ago. It's great.
I like some duckweed in my tanks, gives shelter for my fish and filters my water in the tank naturally, but I do maintain the amount of it allowed
Agreed!
I like red root floaters for this as they are easier to control and don’t magically spread like mad to all your tanks. But I do agree, duckweed does look nice.
:/…what do you mean… magically spreads to other tanks?
@somevids4187 I never said that, don't know what you're talking about
@@scotttucker8127 tolstoy21 above me said it. I was replying to him.
I love my duckweed ! It looks cool I think fish and shrimps love it and it keeps water clean, nitrates 0 etc. I think it is ok if kept in control
I kind of hate it and love it the same time. I would like to keep because it looks nice keeping the nitrites low it but it grows a very thick mat sucking all the light and nutrients from the other plants and I am too lazy to keep it under control.
Yeah duckweed can really block a lot of light from the water. On the other hand, because duckweed multiplies so insanely fast, it also filters the water extremely fast, since it only feeds from the water column. I heard that it can even remove cobalt from the water... but enough is definitely enough ;)
I find a cheap, fine-tooth, plastic comb works great for smaller tanks and eliminates the possibility of accidentally picking up smaller fish/fry. I like to use the stuff I remove as mulch for my house plants. I find a nice mat of dried duck weed helps retain moisture in the soil.
@@Average_Brad that's such a good idea I'll have to try that
I had put some duckweed in my goldfish tank yesterday, and today I noticed it was all gone. LOL Father Fish just confirmed why. Now I know that when I want to thin the duckweed in my other tanks, I can just give it to my goldfish as a snack. Wonderful! (I like duckweed. I even gathered some yesterday from a creek.)
I tried the same thing, I had not a chance growing it out in my goldfish tank 😂 I just grow it out in other tanks and outdoor tubs. I just scoop out and feed it once I have too much. 😊
@@Twinkley1981 Goldfish are hard on most plants it seems. Once a month I take plants from my outdoor pond and put them in my indoor goldfish aquarium. Gives them something to chew on. LOL
I harvest it once a month. Dry it all out on a plate in a window sill. Crush it up into powder. Mix it into minced raw fish, some fresh minced garlic and spurlina flakes. Freeze it all in sandwhich bags and feed a piece to the big aquarium every other day or so.
The smaller cichlids, and cory cats go nuts for that mixture.
Beautiful tanks. Goldfish are definitely the ultimate duckweed removers 👍🏻
Thank you for teaching us how to get rid of duckweed. This is much easier than what I have been doing. I grow it in all my tanks for my chickens. My chickens love this stuff.
I tried using a hair comb to get the duckweed out of my tanks and that works also! Another fish keeper recommended this. I've found duckweed helps to get a tank cycling quicker. But I like the bigger floating plants a bit better.😊
The guy at the pet store tried to warn me about duckweed but I didn't listen. I just get a net and skim them off once in a while like you showed.
I like duckweed it's beneficial for the tank😊
I love duck weed. I grow it in my other tanks to scoop out and feed to my fancy goldfish. I find turning my pump off to stop it moving around helps when scooping it out.
Ι put duck weed in my tank, while i had severe algae issue. Within a week the algae is half of what it was. It is dying in real time, i can see it dying. Of course i keep it in control but another good aspect of it is that my angelfish are eating it like crazy and staying away from the hygrophyla, which was severely struggling from angels eating it. Now it is growing nice and healthy. When the plants take of i will try to reduce it or even eliminate it. I'll see.
very smart
@FatherFish i had a friend insisting for me to do it and i am really glad i did! It just needs control. As i say, god knows what he made and why! We just need to find out....🙂
I have learned about lightning and the duck weed is nicely controlled. Happy!!!
Thank you, Lou.You are nothing if not "persistent!"
I understand the problem, but we forget that it is most efffective way to "suck" up nutrients from the water aswell and even it at end will "black out" the light it can balance the ecosystem father.
Thank you FF for your tips ! Greetings from Algeria
I usually keep a plastic ring which is an inch thick and keep the floating plants inside them so that way you can remove or trim them whenever they overflow
The obvious solution: put a duck in your aquarium. (I advise one duck for every ten gallons of water)
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I had a large female blue Gourami that eat every piece of duckweed out of her tank. I also grow duckweed to feed my goldfish.
I like it especially since my tank is uncovered I just scoop out a handful or two each week to keep it from getting crazy
Thanks Father fish! I learn so much from you!
What perfect timing. I was talking to Dina about this just a couple of days ago. ❤🐻
Some great alternatives to floating duckweed are frog bit, water sprite, and guppy grass. They’ll act as nutrient sponges and are easy to grow but can be easily removed when they fill the aquarium.
Duckweed is the best thing ever.. Why? Because it let's you run a tank almost forever without water changes, and have a very healthy ecosystem. Just because of the reason you list.. The duckweed absorb excess nutrients in the water.. You add food to feed your fishes, they poop, the bacteria in your filters etc converts that to nitrates, which the plants use..
The duckweed grows, and you scoop it out once a week and dump it in the trash.. You then have a balanced ecosystem. I ran a 150l aquatium for more than a year without waterchanges, highly stocked, and the fish thrived like crazy.
@Eye-1-70 Not living in the US... I vote, pirate.. :P
Duckweed, I like it for my shrimp, but my other tanks do not need it haha. Once when I was brushing my hair, I found duckweed in it lol. 😅It haunts me haha. Thanks for the video!
Everyone who likes duckweed, have fun watching it take over the entire top of your tank and overtake any and all other types of floaters, and once it's in your tank, you'll never get it out
Exactly
I wish I had some plants for my pond. And a light. Very good stuff. I think my fish would love it.
Haha you're so funny Lou, it does have its benefits all the same. I recall you mentioning in past times that a mechanical filter will eradicate it quickly as doezn't enjoy moving water. I just found some wild duckweed along with wild snails and have them in my 30 litre. I think its pretty cool but everyone has their preferences.
My duckweed keeps my plants from growing out of my tank. You just have to scoop a good portion of it out once a week. Its also helps with the fish waste.
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If you disturb the water surface with air stone or other means, it will discourage it. Duckweed does not like moving water. The goldfish is a good idea. Maybe buy a Comet Goldfish for a few pennies and put it in there. :) BTW, Duckweed can be a real life-saver in a dirty tank. It will eat the pollution like crazy. I don't mind a little in the tank. The worst thing about it is when the filter outfall or some other flow pushes the Duckweed down into the plants and it gets stuck under water.
My solutions for duckweed are Buenos aires tetras and my hands. 😁
For the latter, I use the duckweed "ability" to stuck to the hand/arm, collect all I can find, bring my arm over the toilet bowl, pour some water and off they go. Alternatively, for those that have gardens, you can use the water pouring trick to...well, water your plants. 🤓
I think it’s like black beard algae. The way to get rid of it is decide you like it. Mine always dies out eventually
Another fish that eats gills is Hasemania nana. Just don't feed it for a few days and it will definitely eliminate it.
I really like the Spanish Moss at 7:03. Was it harvested locally?
shipped to me from Florida. I understand there is some in a cypress swamp near by
Duckweed is an issue in most of my fish tanks. Only in paludarium (too dark for duck weed) and large tank with Angelfish and Black skirt tetras it's not an issue (they eat it). I heard it may disappear if the water becomes too soft or when it's missing certain nutrients, but the latter may affect other plants. I hate when duckweed appears in a tank with guppies or shrimp. It's way too easy to catch some while using net. Currently I use wooden stick (skewer) or my fingers, but I heard hairbrush works the best to remove it.
I guess that explains why I don't have any duckweed in my 75 gal tank. I have both Angels (small) and Black Skirt Tetras in that tank. But my 5 gallon quarantine tank has tons of it. I dip most of it out periodically.
Hi Father Fish. Is there a natural solution for skin & gill flukes?
manual removal
I found Malawi chic lids eat it. , but in some circumstances it’s a good thing. Dry it and use it as fish food for mollies or to start infusoria cultures for fish fry.
I think I'll have to grab some for my goldfish tank if it is good for goldfish to feed
It's a superfood
If you have hermit crabs, they love duckweed (at least mine do). I've also noticed in one of my tanks the salvinia minima seems to have outcompeted the duckweed and in another water lettuce thrives but not the duckweed.
I DO get too frustrated😅 I’ve got plants and tubes and driftwood that stick out the top so it makes it very tricky. I don’t mind having duckweed but I just wish I didn’t have to do it so often or else my plants below don’t get much light
What about drying it and powdering it for food?
AFAIK it's edible and also used to feed cows in Benelux.
I bought a 2 gallon shop vac and sucked it all out in every corner and surface every day until all my tanks have nothing left of it.
Usually I scoop out the excess , i leave an area within a specific area with a DIY floating device made from pipe ... the excess I removed , I let it dry under direct sunlight or the aquarium light ... when I have a good amount, I put them in the microwave, then in the grinder to make it like a powder ... and I give some little spoon to the fish or shrimp as snack ... they absolutely love it like crazy 😂😂😂 ...
Guess I'll give more to the goldfish
I use a hair comb with a bucket of water. Scoop up and dip the comb, does fast work of duckweed.
Not sure if you already have, but you should do a video on liquid carbon and how stuff like Seachem Excel is literally poison for your tank.
Even Rosy Barbs work wonders to remove duckweed (for the ones who don't have space for large fish such as goldfish)
I got some from some fosh i bought and its almost completely gone.. not sure what happened but i do have my filter set to the max output so maybe it doesnt like the agitation of the water
That was fun to watch 😂
Duckweed in my coffee... duckweed in my soup... duckweed in my bathwater. Hahh... duckweed😂 we dance daily with it and the ramhorns.
What do i do that whenever I actively put duckweed in a tank, like in a new tank to control nitrates, it allways dies off somehow some time after once stablished.
Until that very moment, this is pretty much how you deal with this lovely crazy growing plant!
My black neons and lemon tetras eat duckweed so no problem in one of my tanks. Unfortunately I can't say the same for my other tanks 😂
I literally had to do this in my microfauna tank yesterday omg that darn stuff grows so fast. I dont even put it in my 55 or my 10 gallon betta tank. Know i use hornwort and salvania floating plant i got from you father fish. Cause i got tired of having to do that everyweek with the duckweed
I prefer Salvinia minima & Limnobium laevigatum since they're bigger and therefore it's easier to get rid off excessieve amounts.
American/Florida flag fish (Jordanella floridae) love to eat duckweed. I place a school of them in my aquariums to tackle hair algae and duckweed. They’ll destroy it all in a few days. Here in Florida we can trap our own with minnow traps in any freshwater but outside of Florida most pet stores can get them for you.
I hate duckweed but my fancy goldfish love it.
Will all goldfish eat it? Or is it just a specific species?
all will eat it, but you need to teach the goldfish to do it if the fish isnt adapted to that food
I didn't realize goldfish enjoyed duckweed !
I wanted duckweed so bad when I started. I just couldn't get it to grow ... now, I can't get rid of it.
increase the flow.
I discover the goldfish tip by myself, because im a newbie who dont know anything. I love you video but dont understand if you have pump or not because your tank water is moving and bubbling. I want start a natural and seek for a real step by step (not the big lines you repeats, i get them)
Wouldn't gold fish ear small fry?
they can
I absolutely hate duck weed. Question will gold fish eat frog bit that I have mixed in with duck weed?
Yes they will a lady use to come pick up all the extra frog bit i had and feed it to gold fish
@johnbivens1451 thanks I love my frog bit but hate the dang duck weed mixed in it
Father fish my soil is highly acidic what should I do?
Add buffers like bone meal and baking soda
Thanks!@@FatherFish
if you get rid of all the duckweed whats eating the goldfish?
I thought I would never see FF been triggered like that about a plant 😂 I think duckweed is a really cool plant for it's ability to grow and maintain good quality of water buuut it can become a mess if it doesn't get along with your tank set-up
i like my duckweed :-P
Me too!
Well, basically my solution to it is the same but a lot easier 😉...after skimming most of the duckweed, I put a water surface skimmer attached to a filter..I kinda made a DIY duckweed trap before the water inlet...I also made sure to find a way that other plants' leaves are away from the surface temporarily..then every after 24 hours, I clean out the trapped duckweed. After a week or less, the whole infestation is solved. Then I remove the skimmer.
Also, I use a different skimming net per tank to avoid further contamination. Easy.
I liked duckweed until I needed to remove it from a shrimp tank. Persistence is indeed the key. Used a measuring cup and net. Used the water flow into the cup to force the duckweed into it. Kept a careful eye for shrimp. Would dump into the net and removed it all that way. Would find more through the following weeks and did a couple more times
I'd imagine it would be very hard to remove duckweed without loosing shrimplets. I vacuum my internal filter and almost always find shrimplets in my bucket that are very hard to see and tricky to catch.
@ I imagine I did lose some but hopefully minimal. Great thing about the cups, use a clear one and you can hold it up to see if there’s anything swimming around. White one, the shrimp stick out like a sore thumb on the bottom.
Wow. I wish I could grow them in my tank. They always seem to disappear.
The sneaky ones that sink to the bottom, then pop up months later are the best!
I leave the duckweed. Every now and then I take as much as possible and use it for my smoothie 😂
I'm so amazed how u could still handle with your tanks without hurting your back back.... I'm in my late 30th with 40 tanks... maintaining all my tanks..hurt my back alot😂😂😂😂
I harvest my duckweeds and let it dry in the sun after that I grind it and mix it with fish food for my guppy.
What's wrong with duck weed?
Exactly. Nothing is wrong with duckweed.
It blocks the light getting to the plants beneath. Look for alternatives..
@@DashDrones Duckweed DOES NOT block enough light to make a difference. My plants FLOURISH under as carpet of duckweed. All you duckweed naysayers are doing something wrong.
@@scottmerrow1488 sure
@@scottmerrow1488 post a video
I wish I had some.
You should start growing it to use it as a resurce, then it will become impossible to keep alive 😂 but seriously, I find using a pocket comb and/or surface scimmer to be much easier and effective than using a net 😊
Corydoras and mystery snails will snack on duckweed.
I hates it too. I got it from somewhere. It blocked my tank and a lot of plants died. I am constantly removing it now.
Yeah it floats but it can stick to something on the bottom and bide its evil little time 'til you're not looking and two weeks later your tank is covered in it again.
The best thing to do with riccia is just pinch off a small amount you know doesn't have dw in it and let that grow out in a dw free tank. It grows fast. Trying to get the dw out of the riccia is just about impossible. There's always one in there biding its time. I propogate a small bit of it and throw out the rest 'cause I know there's dw hiding in it.
My black skirt tetras and my Australian rainbow fish constantly ate my duck weed matter of fact sometimes I would feed it out of my other tanks just to feed them
I finally found what father fish hates more then fertilizer it's duckweed
What is so crazy, I just cleaned out 3/4 of my duck weed, check my phone and fatherfish post a duckweed video!!!!! Getting a goldfish later!!!
I was about to order food ring and even added that in amazon cart today then i saw this video 😂😂
Goldfish are the thing you (father fish) should be warning us about.
I am saving my skimmed off duck weed for my out door gold fish. My shrimp and fish like duck weed.😅 after the snow melts.
I'm glad I chose frogbit instead. I've never allowed duck weed into my tanks
If you saw my tanks CRAZY plant growth despite duckweed you'd be very jealous.
my African cichlids and goldfish eat the duckweed, I only have one tank now that has duckweed that I farm from.
I deal with it daily or it takes over. I didn't add any, must have come in with my Frog Bit from Online order.
I have to disagree. Duckweed is the Aquarists best friend IMO, and not a scourge at all. My plants are SUPER THICK despite a dense carpet of duckweed on the surface. It obviously doesn't do a very good job of blocking the light. If I could keep only one plant species it would be duckweed. I ordered some plants from Aquarium co-op and I was super lucky to find one duckweed in the order. Now all my tanks are blessed and my outdoor ponds too. Maybe because duckweed can do it all by itself is why PEOPLE WHO SELL PLANTS hate it. Duckweed IS the ultimate solution. I have MAD THICK dwarf saggitaria, annubias nana and bacopa(?) UNDER a thick canopy of duckweed using only a home depot led strip plant light. My first video is going to have to be about DUCKWEED.... dispelling all the lies and misinformation surrounding it. It's like ANY kind of work is too much (getting rid of it, keeping it down) for some people. I've been in this hobby for over 50 years Father Fish and you've extolled the great walstadt method but you are WRONG about duckweed. HEALTHY and NATURAL outdoor ecosystems have duckweed on their surface.
It only gets X thick and blocks only X much light. Duckweed is a first world aquarists (non) problem.
I hates nasty duckweed!
Duck weed cleans the water . fish fells more safe when the surface is covered . Fry can hide .
true. There are other plants that do a better job, riccia, for example provides a deper strata for babies and microfauna.
Feather fish thank you so much for teaching us and I love duckweed. Mystery snails also love duckweed and you can even watch them digest it on the side of the tank
I tried adding duckweed to my pond.... Multiple handfuls, and my koi made sure I had 0 left by the next day
I've had success with a fine toothed comb
I put the excess into mine brine shrimp tanks
Doesn’t survive in my tank
Lol 😆 i could not get duck weed could to thrive in my aquarium why I got no clue 😅 maybe to much current 😊
snail, also eat duckweed very fast
Surprisingly duckweed doesn’t take over my tanks. I think my lighting might not be great
similar to goldfish, my Rosy barbs and buenos aries tetras eat all the duckweed I add