I have been battling duckweed for months, I tried your DIY solution last night with the power head and water bottle, worked a treat! Thank you, thank you!
I just started a tank about a month ago for guppys to feed my common snapping turtles. I now am obsessed with aquariums and anything that goes with them. Im in Ohio and was wondering what a good plant I could get wild here for guppy fry to hide in. Your vids are by far my favorite source on UA-cam. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I got rid of most of my duckweed by adding frog bit in my ten gallon. It outcompeted most of it and got everything under control. The remaining duckweed now looks aesthetically pleasing and natural.
I hate the duckweed in my aquarium but I have around 20 baby bettas hiding in it so I have to wait to remove it all. You can dose hydrogen peroxide in your entire aquarium to kill off fungal and bacterial diseases, just make sure you remove your cycled filter, as it will kill the beneficial bacteria living there. I put my filter on a different tank so it could continue thriving and dosed my 55 gallon to kill out some disease issues I was having, it killed all of the algae in my tank as well! It does cause dying leaves on plants to melt away, and all of the leaves on my hornwort fell off, which was a huge mess that I could’ve avoided by throwing the hornwort in another tank. But peroxide is definitely an amazing tool. I did 1ml per 10 gallons I believe, and a little extra for good measure. Worked like a charm.
I made the mistake of purposefully adding duckweed to my aquarium cause I thought it looked cool and have been in constant battle for months. I'll try and follow some of your tips. And it doesn't specifically have to be flourish Excel, it can be another form of liquid carbon yes?
Bingo! And moving water. But a shop vac with pantyhoes over the nozzle can work also. Best of luck! I have up after thr 4th time it showed up (except on my aquascapes)
I like the duck weed, have it in a couple of tanks, but every couple of weeks I'll take a big scoop out and put it in my trophy tank. Constant food source
Yeah hell of a pain to get rid of. Even if you do the best job you can of manual removal, if you leave even one bit you can turn around a few days later and it's taking hold again. Incredibly annoying plant if you don't want it but have it.
What is the green plant in the front of your tank at 16:58? I've seen it in several of your videos, but I've never seen it for sale anywhere. I love it's flat look.
So thats an unusual one called Potomogeton Gayii (rainbow or bronze). Slow grower...doesnt need to be rooted...its similar to guppy grass actually. No co2 or fertz fequired either
I just use a wooden skewer held horizontally to skim across the surface. The duckweed bunches up. But I mostly have Lemna spirodela and Lemna minor. You’re cursed with tiny, tiny Wolffia 😭
Fun video. Despite being pretty, I have found that I only appreciate duckweed in a lighted sumps. Works like macro algae in a salt water refugium, only its freshwater. Still playing with flow rate though, sump flow rate was as bad as a power head at first... it's not a perfect system yet Plus my chickens love excess duckweed.
Jungle val is a mysterious and crazy plant...it melts so easily, yet messes with other plants a lot. Im convinced that it's not so much the living val that causes it.... but rather -when it breaks off in pieces and they turn color and decay, I think they release ammonia along with some other chemical thats toxic to a variety of plants. Also the broken val pieces really seem to last a long time if you let them....months in my metallic red corkscrew variety. It breaks off near water level, then turns gold to red to yellow/green to clear and broken down...but it kills all the duckweed, hornwort, water lettuce, red root floaters and bacopa it touches
@@ArnoldQMudskipper An unidentifiable-by-me Isoetes species (not commonly in the aquarium trade), Potamogeton perfoliatus, and water sprite. The watersprite was doing so well until a jungle val stolon popped up beside it and then it turned brown and died. :(
@@Fishtory While I'm not averse to considering your theory, I regularly trim my jungle vals because they're in a 10 gallon and so they haven't had a chance to break off and become debris. I have also noticed that the death of surrounding plants occurs when jungle vals creep near them and not necessarily if the leaves are near them. For months my Aponogeton crispus was doing fine, but then the creepers creeped up and now it's melting horribly. :( It could be competing for nutrients or strangling the other plant's roots. Perhaps more likely the latter as my substrate is over 2'' of potting soil capped with sand and gravel that malaysian trumpet snails have been sweeping fish poop into, so I don't think a nutrient deficiency is likely.
If you hate it so much, just scoop it out for awhile. Do a really good cleaning and organize out the different plants that you want and don’t. Do that for less than 5 minutes every day after and you’re good. You just have to take the time. In the time it took you to make this video, you could have gotten most of it out.
Potamogeton gayii or red tiger lotus :) The gayi is great stuff...each leaf is a random color of green, lime green, forest green, golden, copper or orange and some half lime green or reddish lines down the leaf's center....all very narrow and the colors come out much more with co2 and high light output. However, in low light and low fertilizer, no co2 - it still grows as a nice green and golden palate
There's dirt stains from poking my finger into old ada amazonia and plant about 50 plants in the new tank upstairs... but i do smoke 3 to 8 cigs a day when im smoking (i go off and on- but picked up the awful addiction when i quit alcohol and hard drugs 10 years ago, oddly. ). But yeah, this video.. its super old eco-complete and amazonia with fish poo and soil that i poked holes with... i only happen to remeber that because i was self conscious about it too and first wondered the same.
I managed to kill off Duckweed in my 75 Gallon tank and I'm not 100% sure what killed it but I think it was the high flow of the FX-6 that killed it off.
Simple....and a shop vac works too...but i have people asking me constantly...as if it were nearly impossible...so i figured - VIDEO TIME! thanks for watching Mister B!
Duckweed is great. All the stuff being dragged out is acting as a nitrogen sink. Some species love to eat it. Some people use floating rings to keep floating plants more separated.
Duck weed can't live in my aquarium with a hang on back filter the water coming out of the filter tumbles the duckweed and it dies every time I put it in there
@@kinglyzard They get sucked in and under, but mine were so persistent that they didn't care; they'd just pop back to the surface after doing loopdiloops for a minute.
It sucks up a ton of ammonia and nitrates and some fish eat it...so in theory you can just leave a goldfish with it on the water and it will survive fine eating it (54% protein)
I have been battling duckweed for months, I tried your DIY solution last night with the power head and water bottle, worked a treat! Thank you, thank you!
So glad to hear it! It's not 100% effective...but it works fairly well for me to keep it down
I just feed it all to my goldfish then giggle at their poops
GOLDFISH EAT IT??! WHAT?
Yep! NEON GREEN POOP!😂
I just started a tank about a month ago for guppys to feed my common snapping turtles. I now am obsessed with aquariums and anything that goes with them. Im in Ohio and was wondering what a good plant I could get wild here for guppy fry to hide in. Your vids are by far my favorite source on UA-cam. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
I got rid of most of my duckweed by adding frog bit in my ten gallon. It outcompeted most of it and got everything under control. The remaining duckweed now looks aesthetically pleasing and natural.
Frogbit got totally "fishbit" in my tank :.(
MadCity Jack press F to pay respects for frogbit
I hate the duckweed in my aquarium but I have around 20 baby bettas hiding in it so I have to wait to remove it all. You can dose hydrogen peroxide in your entire aquarium to kill off fungal and bacterial diseases, just make sure you remove your cycled filter, as it will kill the beneficial bacteria living there. I put my filter on a different tank so it could continue thriving and dosed my 55 gallon to kill out some disease issues I was having, it killed all of the algae in my tank as well! It does cause dying leaves on plants to melt away, and all of the leaves on my hornwort fell off, which was a huge mess that I could’ve avoided by throwing the hornwort in another tank. But peroxide is definitely an amazing tool. I did 1ml per 10 gallons I believe, and a little extra for good measure. Worked like a charm.
I made the mistake of purposefully adding duckweed to my aquarium cause I thought it looked cool and have been in constant battle for months. I'll try and follow some of your tips. And it doesn't specifically have to be flourish Excel, it can be another form of liquid carbon yes?
Bingo! And moving water. But a shop vac with pantyhoes over the nozzle can work also. Best of luck! I have up after thr 4th time it showed up (except on my aquascapes)
I like the duck weed, have it in a couple of tanks, but every couple of weeks I'll take a big scoop out and put it in my trophy tank. Constant food source
I used to have fish that ate it, also...and i didnt mind it as much then
Yeah hell of a pain to get rid of. Even if you do the best job you can of manual removal, if you leave even one bit you can turn around a few days later and it's taking hold again. Incredibly annoying plant if you don't want it but have it.
i have never been able to grow duck weed.i heard it is hard to get rid of, but i cant get it to grow.what i'm i doing right?lol
Maybe heavy flow HOB? low nitrates and nutrients....high ph and low light?
What is the green plant in the front of your tank at 16:58? I've seen it in several of your videos, but I've never seen it for sale anywhere. I love it's flat look.
So thats an unusual one called Potomogeton Gayii (rainbow or bronze). Slow grower...doesnt need to be rooted...its similar to guppy grass actually. No co2 or fertz fequired either
@@Fishtory thank you for responding! I'll be searching for one now!
What’s a good floating plant that’s good for your fish
Duckweed actually is the best nutritionally. But frogbit and water lettuce work as well
I just use a wooden skewer held horizontally to skim across the surface. The duckweed bunches up. But I mostly have Lemna spirodela and Lemna minor. You’re cursed with tiny, tiny Wolffia 😭
Haha yes
Fun video. Despite being pretty, I have found that I only appreciate duckweed in a lighted sumps. Works like macro algae in a salt water refugium, only its freshwater. Still playing with flow rate though, sump flow rate was as bad as a power head at first... it's not a perfect system yet
Plus my chickens love excess duckweed.
Totally
Marks Shrimp Tanks has a video how to make Shrimp food from Duckweed, its very good shrimp food.
Totally!
Why did you put it in the first place?
I did not intend to. It was in some moss probably. I went out of town for 10 days and came back to half the tank covered lol
What type of tank u got?
40 breeder
I live on the 2nd floor. My downstairs neighbor would lose his sh*t!! XD
I think Jungle Val kills duckweed through allelopathy (could be a cool topic to cover).
ArnoldQMudskipper it seems to be killing my other plants through allelopathy, too
@@VyvienneEaux Oh, what plants? I can't seem to grow hygrophila in mine. Supposed to be easy
Jungle val is a mysterious and crazy plant...it melts so easily, yet messes with other plants a lot. Im convinced that it's not so much the living val that causes it.... but rather -when it breaks off in pieces and they turn color and decay, I think they release ammonia along with some other chemical thats toxic to a variety of plants.
Also the broken val pieces really seem to last a long time if you let them....months in my metallic red corkscrew variety. It breaks off near water level, then turns gold to red to yellow/green to clear and broken down...but it kills all the duckweed, hornwort, water lettuce, red root floaters and bacopa it touches
@@ArnoldQMudskipper An unidentifiable-by-me Isoetes species (not commonly in the aquarium trade), Potamogeton perfoliatus, and water sprite. The watersprite was doing so well until a jungle val stolon popped up beside it and then it turned brown and died. :(
@@Fishtory While I'm not averse to considering your theory, I regularly trim my jungle vals because they're in a 10 gallon and so they haven't had a chance to break off and become debris. I have also noticed that the death of surrounding plants occurs when jungle vals creep near them and not necessarily if the leaves are near them. For months my Aponogeton crispus was doing fine, but then the creepers creeped up and now it's melting horribly. :(
It could be competing for nutrients or strangling the other plant's roots. Perhaps more likely the latter as my substrate is over 2'' of potting soil capped with sand and gravel that malaysian trumpet snails have been sweeping fish poop into, so I don't think a nutrient deficiency is likely.
If you hate it so much, just scoop it out for awhile. Do a really good cleaning and organize out the different plants that you want and don’t. Do that for less than 5 minutes every day after and you’re good. You just have to take the time. In the time it took you to make this video, you could have gotten most of it out.
Yup, that's what i do
Hi Alex what's the plant at 17,22 please
Potamogeton gayii or red tiger lotus :)
The gayi is great stuff...each leaf is a random color of green, lime green, forest green, golden, copper or orange and some half lime green or reddish lines down the leaf's center....all very narrow and the colors come out much more with co2 and high light output. However, in low light and low fertilizer, no co2 - it still grows as a nice green and golden palate
Lmao I wanna buy duck weed now coz it's funny how it just keeps growing
I have some if you live around here
@@Fishtory nah I'm in Asia lmao
@@Fishtory love ur vids btw their really entertaining and kinda therapeutic lol
Thanks for this!
Of course!
I use a hair lice removal comb to remove it .... easier than using a net. And it doesn't push/distribute it throughout the tank
Yes, afro picks also work
I just scoop it out
Holy duckweed! 🦆😁
That's right ROBIN! KABLEEWIE!
...Batman!
my wall is covered with duckweed from the corrydorras
your aquarium is too small for ur duckweed >.>
Lol check mate
Just wondering, could you lightly spray the peroxide on the duckweed? Just a spritz a day, maybe?
You can. It will cause it to yellow and die...but it is a fine line between killing it, and harming other plants or fish too
Are they nicotine stains on your pointer finger dude?
There's dirt stains from poking my finger into old ada amazonia and plant about 50 plants in the new tank upstairs... but i do smoke 3 to 8 cigs a day when im smoking (i go off and on- but picked up the awful addiction when i quit alcohol and hard drugs 10 years ago, oddly. ).
But yeah, this video.. its super old eco-complete and amazonia with fish poo and soil that i poked holes with... i only happen to remeber that because i was self conscious about it too and first wondered the same.
I managed to kill off Duckweed in my 75 Gallon tank and I'm not 100% sure what killed it but I think it was the high flow of the FX-6 that killed it off.
Good info for those that need it.
Simple....and a shop vac works too...but i have people asking me constantly...as if it were nearly impossible...so i figured - VIDEO TIME! thanks for watching Mister B!
always worry about oxygen exchange with the duck weed, otherwise i love it
Same
Duckweed is great. All the stuff being dragged out is acting as a nitrogen sink. Some species love to eat it. Some people use floating rings to keep floating plants more separated.
Well it's good for smoothies honestly too lol
@@Fishtory
Yum 😁
@@groot6830 lol
Scuds will eat that algae.
Totes!
Your thumbnail has a typo, your duckweed has an aquarium problem?
It's a joke
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium sorry
Ya only a little joke knucklehead
This could of been a 5 minute video
looks like some of my tanks
Duck weed can't live in my aquarium with a hang on back filter the water coming out of the filter tumbles the duckweed and it dies every time I put it in there
Yeah i have tanks like that... raise the water level if possible and or make airline loops to create calm water
@@Fishtory I'll try that thanks
@@Fishtory I don't have Airlines but I do have an adjustment on the filter for the flow
I’ve introduced duck weed several times it doesn’t stick. Something or someone are eating it I’m sure lol
I find they don't thrive around OTS filters. The mini waterfall really cramps their style.
@@kinglyzard They get sucked in and under, but mine were so persistent that they didn't care; they'd just pop back to the surface after doing loopdiloops for a minute.
You could also just use a skimmer!!!
Like normal human beings lmfao real talk
Why people buy duckweed?
It sucks up a ton of ammonia and nitrates and some fish eat it...so in theory you can just leave a goldfish with it on the water and it will survive fine eating it (54% protein)
Fish are unable to transmit ecoli or salmonella
Tanks can though
my state also gives free needles but for some reason we ban straws
Same
It's called incompetent government. Last time I went home to California I about lost it on a server after about 3 days of all the alternative straws
Duckweed will not live in my water. Just lucky I guess.
OT:
I just got done battling cyanobacteria. Yuk.
What a smelly mess that was :?
I have enough flow that my duckweed has never gotten too thick
dont kill duckweed its a great food for shrimp very easy to do check out "marks shrimp tanks" and search duckweed then sell the food
If i didn't already have endless shrimp food...and for that matter, dried and pressed duckweed cakes- id collect more
Beads off not puddles off.