I have never had a hatred for duckweed lol, call me crazy but I’ve actually introduced it on purpose a few times

@liamkennedy5702

3 жыл бұрын

Your crazy

@nictennick1650

3 жыл бұрын

Same, I scoop it out of the main tank with it and put it in all my other tanks

@mjhorner1496

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! I like it. Everyone else I know hates it and thinks I'm nuts.

@herpdiversity9152

3 жыл бұрын

I used to now i really dislike it besides on paludariums where i like it.

@pranav2577

2 ай бұрын

I like it it's arriving in 5 days🎉

Man, I should've known the answer would be "lol you just gotta be patient and methodical!" That betta looks extremely happy!

A comb works too

Great idea. I've never had duckweed in my tanks, but I do have salvinia, which is a little larger but still very fast growing. I use a hair pick that I picked up from the dollar store to remove it when it starts to overtake the surface area. I use a similar technique as you; dipping the hair pick under the surface of the water and then pulling the plants up from underneath and use a pitcher of water to remove them from the pick. Occasionally, if I'm removing all of the floating plants, there are too many stragglers for the pick to be effective. I like the tweezer method. I'll be using that for sure.

I’ve been considering getting duckweed. I think my goldfish would enjoy. - I like your removal process. Thank you.

Duckweed in glass aquariums is the worst but duckweed in ponds is the best... If you have duckweed in aquariums.. If the duckweed covers too much of the surface all you need to do in place a floating ring.. You can make one using styrofoam , you can cut it into a ring or even making a ring using airline hose

@savannamm

3 жыл бұрын

I use the airline ring to contain my red root floaters

Yeah I actually love duckweed too. I purposefully introduce it in my tanks- it's a fantastic nutrient sink and personally i think it looks kinda pretty. I've also used it to to get rid of cyanobacteria multiple times- as soon as I see any, I clean the tank walls, do a water change, and drop a couple handfuls of duckweed from my grow out tank and usually within a week or two tops there's no more issues.

Awesome tip🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 great video as always

I like your videos! I use a eheim skimmer when I want one of my tanks clear of duckweed. It's super effective and you don't stir the duckweed arround as much as with a net. The skimmer works well for removing trimmings from monte carlo to.

Wow how did you know I was searching for this everywhere haha

Thanks for the information!

I blend up my duckweed and mix pollen in and feed it to my shrimp and dojo loaches. Because I actually like duckweed I never ended up having it sneak it's way into my tank

I love algae too, and so far my fish eat all of the floating plants I've put in every tank lol. Merry Christmas to you and yours Zenzo!

@garyi3039

3 жыл бұрын

Hi. May I ask what fish you have that eat the duckweed please?

I've wanted to try duckweed but didnt know if i could stay ahead of it. Your idea looks like a great idea. I just might give it a try now. Thanks.

I like it, I'll have to get a pair of those on my next coop order.

The forceps/tweezers are a good idea to supplement my current routine! I currently use a small hair pick and comb a lot of duckweed out of the water, then hold the pick over one of the potted plants nearby and tab it on the rim of the pot, so the duckweed falls into the container. It takes me just a couple of minutes and I do it about once a week. I like having SOME duckweed in the tank, so I only do this when it gets to be too much. I only have duckweed in a couple of tanks though...

Thank you!!!

that betta is super cute

Never had duckweed, but very helpful if I ever get it 🤓

Your fish room is beautiful.

Have a diy on the nets you keep in the tanks?

I love duckweed, I just don't want it in all of my tanks for aesthetic reasons. I've been using a plastic fork to remove mine rather than tweezers, I'm totally giving this a try next time I need to remove some.

@reecemohammed5930

3 жыл бұрын

Try using a fine, small net

@sams7708

3 жыл бұрын

@@reecemohammed5930 I will next time I want to pull a bunch! Thank you! Normally I'm picking it out around the marginal plants I have.

@reecemohammed5930

3 жыл бұрын

@@sams7708 you are welcome.. I'm just a hobbyist sharing my experience to help others.

Love it for cycling new tanks and shy fish. After that, prefer hornwort and guppy grass. I use pump and bottle to skim duck weed out.

I’ve been using those tweezers upside down and wrong this entire time. Thanks for the info! Also, I have the opposite problem, never had success growing duckweed for goldfish

@btandrews29

3 жыл бұрын

Use a separate container for growing it and toss it to the goldfish. A warm semi sunny area with “dirty “ pond or aquarium water works good.

@LylyAm123

Жыл бұрын

Goldfish love to eat duckweed, that's how some people get rid of duckweed - by putting in goldfish!

I love duckweed when I get too much, I feed it too my pet turtle bubbles, some day I'll do a video of it on my channel Also merry Christmas zenzo!

@russiannpcbot6408

3 жыл бұрын

Feed it to my 6" fancy goldfish. My two can eat a whole net full in one day.

I just net it out. Takes a couple times but that's it.

Greater duckweed is beauty too, have red colour in the bottom leaf part.

that room 🫵🫵🫵💯💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥

Useful tips to combat duckweed, the same as a lot of comments I also like this in the tanks and just remove some when it gets too much.

It has to be maintained but like you I love it and it is a fantastic water cleaner.In fact I used it successfully to remove black beard algae.(I upgraded from a smaller tank to a bigger tank and added Rosy Barbs who kept on uprooting plants on their search for food.Moat plants died eventually and there was a period when I did not had enough plants inside and black beard algae grew.While I need algae in that tank for the algae eaters I did not wanted blackbeard.Over a few month I found plants which succeeded in not being dug up.by the Rosie's but the algae was there.So I added duckweed to that tank and it does not even look beautiful and natural in the riverbanks floating between and around the valisneria but the excess I have from all the tanks where I got duckweed makes a great fertilizer for my house and garden plants.Additionally I grow it for consumption in a extra container as it contains 40% protein.

Good tips! I don’t mind the look of duckweed, but don’t like it getting on all my equipment/hands so have worked to get rid of it. If I had any fish who would eat it then I might feel differently 😂

thanks! I always use duckweed in new tanks to help with nitrates, but could not get it all out of my long nano with a net because of the many 'roots' breaking the surface.

In one tank, duckweed has grown to such a proportion, and regrows so fast, I've learned just to pull it out entirely by hand - fingers very slightly spread, scooping it out, squeezing out the excess water, and dumping it. This tank is full of mollies and plecos. The mollies, as a gang, nibble on my hand as I do this. It's pretty funny. Agreed it's a great way to remove nitrates and a share of excess phosphates, in one go. Can't use a net in the tank with hundreds of shrimp, as I catch too many baby shrimp with the net along with the duckweed. I just use my hand, but go very, very slowly - this chases off the lil shrimp. It's a lot of work, but again, I appreciate the filtering quality of this rapidly growing, wicked little weed. PS: I put the mollies in there hoping they'd eat the duckweed. Nope. Tempted to 'rent' some goldfish, but I think 80F is too warm for them.

I actually didn't realize it was so beneficial. When I first saw it my first concern was that it would be bad for my shrimp. But now that I know it's not harmful I might keep it in there (just clean it up a bit)

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Do you have separate tanks for growing duckweed to feed to your Mbuna and other fish?

One of the best methods I learned for heavy growth was using a wetvac just above the surface of the water. Works ten times better than skimming with a net which for me always kicks some down and gets it stuck to some ornamental moss. Then just go for the stragglers like you do.

@TazawaTanks

3 жыл бұрын

Good tip.

I use a small net to get a net full once a day to feed my 6" fancy goldfish. They'll eat it all up in a few hours. My mollies raise the duckweed for my goldfish.

FLOOD THE TANK - easiest way to get rid of floaters. Another option is to make a surface skimmer with a water pump and a water bottle (King of DIY video) and let the flow do the work for you

@TazawaTanks

3 жыл бұрын

Flooding a tank is impractical 99.9% of the time. This would really only be viable for outdoor tanks.

Ironic that my biggest problem is that there's no one in my city selling duckweed. It costs like $20 dollars of shipping from the nearest producer. This pandemic has destroyed all the aquarium stores in my region :(

@TazawaTanks

3 жыл бұрын

That’s sad to hear. I hope they rebound!

Nice! Im trying to cultivate Salvinia natans, because its more pretty than duckweed.

The problem I have is that I may scoop up some guppies who are accustomed to going to the surface whenever I work on the tank. When I was moving plants to my dwarf frog tank, I saw two guppy fry in there (still there as of five months).

You can use a small fine net to remove the duckweed

Tazawa Tanks: HOW TO GET RID OF DUCKWEED me: how do i get it, I'm so bad at caring for plants that not even the annoying ones can survive

@TazawaTanks

3 жыл бұрын

LOL!!!!

Never had duckweed (my goldies would love it I'm sure) but always been a bit unsure of transmission of pests etc.

@vb2377

3 жыл бұрын

Disease for sure

I love me some duckweed. I keep turtles and goldfish though. So I farm it in my other tanks to feed to them and I cannot grow it fast enough. It also serves as am unofficial water test. If it blows up in a tank, I know that I need to check the water change schedule and water testing bc it is clearly having excess nutrients. My flowerhorn Tank is the biggest duckweed producer.

Yup duckweed fan here too. Needs a feed ring though. And it's a PITA even if you love it, gets on everything and dries. My salvinia has little chance in competition with my duckweed. I have a lid and duckweed loves it. I always wonder using a net to remove duckweed that the thing that takes it out will also introduce it back as good luck cleaning it out of a net entirely. Seems like you'd have to burn the net, and the tank for that matter to get rid of it for good. Scorched substrate etc.

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@WirTrivedi

3 жыл бұрын

Name some fish that eat duckweed

I love Duckweed as a feeding source for my 75 gallon fancy goldfish tank and as a water treatment device. I let it grow in my 29G community tank too and transfer over some every day to my 75. Problem is I cannot seem to ever grow enough and they eventually clear all of it out. I have tried to create a Duckweed pond situation but have had no success. Any advice where I could get information on creating an endless supply of it for the goldies in an indoor pond? I usually buy a bunch at local fish club auction (not lately obviously) and it will last for a month or two and I am out again. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks

@TazawaTanks

3 жыл бұрын

Try setting up a couple of buckets outside with old tank water from water changes and a scoop of duckweed. It should grow.

@vinceolshove1499

3 жыл бұрын

@@TazawaTanks Thanks for the quick reply. Do I need to "feed" it anything or just an every few day top off with more old tank water? I tried that in the house and it didn't seem to work. Maybe outside in the sun will give better results.

@TazawaTanks

3 жыл бұрын

@@vinceolshove1499 just add old tank water every few days. You could also just sprinkle in some fish food once a week or so. Duckweed will do better with light, so sunlight would be the easiest/most cost effective.

I had I conversation with you recently because of cloudy water in the 20 gallon tank I have my blue crayfish. Well I don’t know what else to do maybe you can help me and give me some idea of what to do. Janice

The zooming is exploding my eyes,,,,jeeez

@TazawaTanks

3 жыл бұрын

The zooming or my stupid auto focus? LOL!

The COOP needs to invest in some colors like the shirt you were wearing for the superfans!

I used surface skimmer to get the duckweed 😁

Fine tooth comb way easier gets loose roots as well 😅

I love it but it is a pain. This method looks good.

Can you talk about how you made that net in the corner of your office aquarium for your duckweed? I’d love to get something like that!

@TazawaTanks

3 жыл бұрын

It’s plastic sewing mesh that came from a craft store.

@AnnAnder25

3 жыл бұрын

@@TazawaTanks Awesome! That’s easy! What did you use to attach it to the glass?

@TazawaTanks

3 жыл бұрын

@@AnnAnder25 just two suction cups that held it in place.

I let it grow in one tank then harvest about half then place them in my tank with parrot and angel fish and they would clear it up in minutes.

how do you easily dispose of the duckweed once you have it in that cup with water? How do you get the duckweed off of the nets easily as well?

@TazawaTanks

3 жыл бұрын

I feed it to my mbuna and goldfish. I just rinse the nets off in the sink.

@dajoke24

3 жыл бұрын

@@TazawaTanks Oh ok thx. I'd assume not to flush down toilet so wasn't sure how to throw away in the trash.

@TazawaTanks

3 жыл бұрын

@@dajoke24 well, I hardly ever have any that goes down the drain since I feed it to my fish. Otherwise, the trash, compost, or in the yard should be okay.

I introduced it to my og tanks, it had it's purpose but now it's just pissing me off😂

Shop vac works the best to remove it

Hi. Do guppies and angel fish eat the duckweed?

@TazawaTanks

3 жыл бұрын

No.

@garyi3039

3 жыл бұрын

@@TazawaTanks thank you!

@TazawaTanks

3 жыл бұрын

@@garyi3039 Sorry for the very short reply. The only fish that will eat duckweed are fish that are primarily herbivores.

@garyi3039

3 жыл бұрын

@@TazawaTanks thank you! And no worries! You gave me the perfect answer. Short and sweet! Thank you!!!

Amigo sería mucho pedir subtítulos en Español, Latinoamerica te lo agradecería mucho Gracias.

I wish there was a way to remove it from the giant chunk of riccia I've just binned! I've saved some of the riccia but I've had to get rid of about a foot square chunk of it!

I love duckweed, I love algae (not in my saltwater tank) lol I also always kill my duckweed... I have a really brown thumb.

Does having a lid on a tank prevent duckweed from growing? All my tanks have lids and I can’t seem to ever be able to keep duckweed alive.

@TazawaTanks

3 жыл бұрын

Not really. I have duckeed growing in several tanks with lids. Maybe your isn't getting enough light.

@carmoscreations2802

3 жыл бұрын

@@TazawaTanks interesting... I only use Fluval 3.0 plant lights on my tanks. I’ll have to try duckweed again when I can pick some up from the Co-Op. Thanks for the reply!

I feed it to my rainbow fish. They eat it voraciously

Black ceiling much better!!

Goldfish

Someone told me duckweed was the best top water plant, so I ordered some, these little things ruined my tank, and my filters. What are some actual good top water plants that aren’t annoying and won’t spread like wild fire

@shackleDev

11 ай бұрын

Dwarf water lettuce is good if you don't mind long roots, else any kind of salvinia will do it's job

you could also just buy a surface scimmer and remove it that way!!!!

That's way too much work for a large tank though. Normally I'll clear the surface and wait till it starts to fill out again before skimming. I like about 20% max in my tanks but some are free of it completely. Big net and a small pump works for me, blow them into it just like a lead blower.

I was never successful with any floating plants.. my frogsies looove any type of floating "salad" i serve them..

Not a problem for me. My red blood parrots, turtles and goldfish eat it.

Why do this? It's easier to use a tiny power head and make a bottle skimmer with filter wool.

I buy duck weed and my gold fish eat it faster than I can grow it.

A hair pic is a lot easier

@TazawaTanks

3 жыл бұрын

A hair pick or a comb work well, but they don't always get those individual ones hiding in corners and around plants.