duck weed

**joestoys** · 15th Apr 2002, 18:41

Have anyone use these so called :duck weed: in their tank.....
it's round size of diameter of 3-5mm green leaf withsome tiny roots, floats on the surface of the water... looks like a carpeted water surface if there is lot of them.... cos I saw it in those plant nursery

**spilopterus** · 15th Apr 2002, 19:18

ECtan once wrote something about that. It's a great way to keep the nutrient level down and therefore prevent algae, but they propogate fast, so you'll have to clear it every week.

**kelstorm** · 15th Apr 2002, 22:04

they block out the lights as well..

**buzzmario** · 15th Apr 2002, 22:44

nature chan gave me some, but i found that with these duck weed, it make changing water hell lots of mess.

**Simon** · 15th Apr 2002, 23:55

try frogbits.. they r bigger, therefore easily to remove than duckweed.. which can clog up yr filter if u not carefully

**kelstorm** · 16th Apr 2002, 00:09

yeah.. me using frog bits.. [

] yeah.. go for frog bits.. nicer too..

**juggler** · 16th Apr 2002, 00:10

If you have big tanks with plants growing near the surface, better not try them. It took me more than 1/2 a year to get rid of them. Even one small leave left un-noticed will propagate to a bunch of them in no time.

I switched to uing Salvinia and Frogbit.

**DEA** · 16th Apr 2002, 02:26

my personal favourite
big, fast growing, looks very nice indeed
think it's phyllanthus fluitans
happy aquarium has them

**joestoys** · 16th Apr 2002, 18:34

Thanks guys for the info...

frog bit... DEA can't see the photo.....

**kingpin** · 16th Apr 2002, 18:51

Looks very delicious...[

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**hwchoy** · 16th Apr 2002, 19:33

is this the water lettuce?

**DEA** · 16th Apr 2002, 21:53

it's not any of the more common types of floating plants
from tropica's watercolour pictures it looks like phyllanthus fluitans
but regardless, it's a nice plant