Is my duckweed saveable?

[AmyKieran]

I’ve attached a photo of my duckweed in my outside container

It’s all turned white in a day, its in full sun (as much sun as we get in uk) all day ?

Can I save this or is it all dead?

 

[Sgooosh]

I’ve attached a photo of my duckweed in my outside container

It’s all turned white in a day, its in full sun (as much sun as we get in uk) all day ?

Can I save this or is it all dead?

possibly, put it under aquarium light

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

You can't kill duckweed if you try... maybe move the tub so it's half shaded, then top it up so the stuff stuck to the sides is back in the water.

 

[Back in the fold]

Not sure but what I think happened to you was the abrupt change from artificial light to strong natural sunlight. Not unlike going your lily white self to the beach after a long winter inside. But, like @AdoraBelle Dearheart said , You can't kill duckweed .

 

[seangee]

If you manage to kill it without harming your fish please share the secret.
Put a single dead leaf anywhere near your tank(s) and you will be back in a few months asking for advice on how to get rid of it

Hint: You can't

 

[StevenF]

You can't kill duckweed if you try...

Actually you can. All plants need 14 elements other than CO2 water and light to grow. If just just one is missing it might die. if it is missing several yes it will die. I have seen it in my own tank although at the time I didn't know what happened. Fertilize the water. Since many fertilizers assume your water has some of the nutrients also do a partial water change to be sure. There is still some great in the photo so they are not dead yet.

 

[itiwhetu]

If it is completely white it is dead, no coming back

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

Actually you can. All plants need 14 elements other than CO2 water and light to grow. If just just one is missing it might die. if it is missing several yes it will die. I have seen it in my own tank although at the time I didn't know what happened. Fertilize the water. Since many fertilizers assume your water has some of the nutrients also do a partial water change to be sure. There is still some great in the photo so they are not dead yet.

You know what I meant! duckweed is super, super hard to kill off, to the point that many of us have tried and failed!

I found duckweed thriving and propagating in a bucket of bleach solution I was soaking some fish stuff in once. It's recently reappeared in one of my tanks where it hasn't been present in like, eight months, without anything new added to that tank. Some dried out piece must have been stuck to some rarely used piece of equipment and rehydrated or something.

So yes, technically it can die off, but it's so hard to get rid of, that it's become a bit of a joke to many of us who really, really don't want duckweed in our tanks at all!

 

[Slaphppy7]

Death to duckweed.