The invasion cannot be stopped (joke)

[Sgooosh]

Well at least it is yummy for mystery snails……..

 

[PheonixKingZ]

Aaand that’s why I don’t keep duckweed... ?

 

[Cydeth]

I find that the only real problem with duckweed is when you want to remove it permanently. It's a very good floating plant when it comes to absorbing excess nutrients from the water column and providing shade.

A floating ring helps to stop it blocking too much light, and some fish love eating it direcly from the surface, particularly gold fish.

There are also plenty of videos on YouTube showing how to make it into a great fish food. I've had a lot of success feeding a duckweed and spirulina fish food to my shrimp and Otocinclus.

 

[StevenF]

The only two things I have found that work. Remove all you see Every day until you don't see any for a couple of months. All it takes is one microscopic plant you miss to bring it back. In addition to that I put Salvinia minima in my tank (another larger floating plant. This would force the duck wee to compete with Slavonia for nutrients. Also Salvinia leaves took up more surface area than duck week so it eventually will crowd it out. Also the Duckweed got trapped between the leaves of the Salvinia. So when I removed the Excess Salvinia I also removed Duckweed. There are other large leaf floating plants but legal restrictions in my area make them unavailable to me.. Compared to Duckweek Salvinia is easy to remove when you no longer want it.

 

[Sgooosh]

hi, im going to dry it and chop it into fish food and feed my guppies\
not removing, its really cool
i might add like waterlettuce so it can balance
water hyacinth?