Me as a Goldfish keeper: I need a freaking pool of Duckweedssssss!!!!

@ellierae3448

7 ай бұрын

Lol I love my goldfish, I’ll grow out all my duckweed and bring it to them

@PotooBurd

2 ай бұрын

Same

I could never understand the hate for duckweed until ONE tiny duckweed leaf hitchhiked on a plant I ordered, I blinked and my 3 foot tank was under attack. Very entertaining watch!!

@cyborgbadger1015

25 күн бұрын

I loved my duckweed until i realised it was clogging the filter then I had to get rid of it.

Has anyone noticed how stand up this is. He could definitely have some followers on a routine. I loved it!

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

What a kind thing to say.

Excellent video in every way. When I first got into fishkeeping, I had troubles keeping duckweed alive because I used hang on the back filters so I'm surprised no one ever talks about surface agitation being the duckweed killer.

@DEXTER-TV-series

8 ай бұрын

Excellent speech with nice but annoying music background. 🙉🙉🙉

@mariamsuliman6035

8 ай бұрын

Same and I thought here I am the exception to the norm

@arnicamoana7861

7 ай бұрын

Same! I didn’t understand why my duckweed couldn’t survive. I thought my water quality was that bad. Turns out, my filter was crazy agitating.

"Makes great wallpaper on your hopes and dreams." What a great line :)

Man this channel looks like a hidden gem

"the solution is always more fish tanks" Classic 😎 Good luck with all the weeeeed bruhhh

@BrentonsFish

9 ай бұрын

see you on the other side 👻

One of the most fun planted aquarium videos I've watched so far. Thank you.

@BrentonsFish

7 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks!

I don't even keep fish and I still found this video entertaining. Great stuff!

I am your 970th sub. One day i wish you get 1k, and ill be here. Due to this video, duckweed in my tank shall not pass. Love this video, good editing.

All you were missing was a Braveheart duckweed scene 😂👍 Loving the vids

duck for the duck god weed for the weed throne

The polarization in the community over duckweed 😂 Amazing content, best wishes to you and your future projects! 🌻

Thank you for warning us about duckweed! I found few in my tank which sneaked in with some other plants I bought two days ago. Picked them all out. 👍

New to the channel had to come from the thumbnail 😂 im getting tier zoo vibes i like it subbed!

Great video! Can confirm deciding to like duckweed alone is a sure fire way to have it all die!

Thank you fop warning me about duckweed! I found few in my tank which sneaked in with some other plants I bought two days ago. 👍

I had the same experience. All my duckweed disappeared when I used a pump that created flow on the surface. I also got rid of it in another tank after cleaning it out, and it never came back. Thanks for the video.

I can't get enough of the stuff. My crayfish LOVE it!

And there is still videos on internet teaching you how to grow your duckweed. Honestly, who needs those tutorials lmao

Only real ones know keep pushing brother

This video was amazing - my housemates and I literally screamed laughing at it a couple of times. Our other housemate keeps a bunch of fish tanks and the weeds are a nightmare.

I have to say this was one of the funniest aquarium related videos I've seen, I have bit of a love/hate relationship with duckweed but what I noticed is that tanks with flow (HOB or canister filter) have pretty managable amounts and its just bit annoying but tanks running sponge filters are a nightmare so yeah I can imagine adding tons more current would destroy it.

I picked up some random species of duckweed from a bog years ago and have never been the same since

That opening line got me good! That was hilarious!

I honestly love this video. I'm subscribing!

Me, who can’t even grow Java fern: “you guys are getting healthy plants?”

@BrentonsFish

7 ай бұрын

The Java fern has been a nightmare for me too. I’ll have to record the shriveled piece I’ve had for 3 years.

@cyborgbadger1015

25 күн бұрын

Java fern didn't flourish in my tank either plus it looked horrid.

@Noxlion28

25 күн бұрын

@@cyborgbadger1015 yeah I’ve pretty much abandoned Java fern. It looks horrible especially when it grows newer plants off its leaves.

Thanks for the laugh. I really enjoyed your dry humor. Got a sub from me.

Love your videos. Keep it up

Crazy how the internet just knows what people need. I've had aquariums for years and never seen duckweed, today I had shrimp delivered with guppy grass and like 10-20 little bits of duckweed and I just added it to my tank. Im interested now to see if it takes over lol

@Lady_Lavandula

8 ай бұрын

I had ONE piece come in with my java moss. About two years ago. I’ve probably thrown out four 29 gallon surface areas worth of it now

@celticbarry9877

8 ай бұрын

I actually just seen it 5 minutes ago in my tank, I opened the lid as one of my big vallisneria plants is floating and on top of it I thought "what is that" thinking it looked like seeds before remembering its the duckweed all 6/7 bits are all sitting on top of it together like they were growing off it @@Lady_Lavandula

@Lady_Lavandula

8 ай бұрын

@@celticbarry9877 well good luck! It starts slow but it’s basically exponential so all of a sudden it will be everywhere 😂

amazing content!

one of the first times i clicked on a video just because the thumbnail was so clever and funny, havnt even watched the vid yet lol

I only have 10 gallons and smaller so it was nothing to pull out the HOB and skim every little leaf out. Now I have nothing but Salvinia minima and I love that plant. I dry amd grind up the overgrowth and turn it into gel food for my shrimp, snails, and kuhli loaches !

@BrentonsFish

2 ай бұрын

Water spangles is one of my strongest growers, indoors and out. I don’t know what it is that makes it grow so fast compared to other floaters but I should start selling it by the handfuls.

Yeah, i just scoped out every single tiny piece out of my tank for a week or so.

@BrentonsFish

9 ай бұрын

At 27 tanks I’m getting anxiety just thinkin about it.

@TheIncredibleHieb

9 ай бұрын

@@BrentonsFish Hahaha understandable

@voluntaryismistheanswer

8 ай бұрын

I have two pristine duckweed-free tanks and they are precious out of my twenty

The struggle w duckweed is so so real

@voluntaryismistheanswer

8 ай бұрын

Especially in deep tanks

@726fhd7ywhjjfuudik

8 ай бұрын

@@voluntaryismistheanswer yeah for sure. And then tons of flow in a narrow tank can cause more green water

@oliewray8357

8 ай бұрын

Just scoop it out it's the easiest thing ever

Goldfish Or I had success with using a powerhead at the surface of my 75 gal. It pushed the duckweed to one corner and I just regularly pulled it out and got rid of it. My duckweed came as a hitch hiker from plants bought out of a bog at a local fish store.

I found moonlight gourami actually eat duckweed pretty well if you can keep one in a duckweed infested tank I would suggest it n.n all my tanks have dw but after adding the moonlight gourami to one all the duckweed vanished and they are known for eating plants so I think it was my gourami

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

I need one of these. I’m sold.

@snikerdoodlefox3979

8 ай бұрын

@@BrentonsFish be wary. They get really big and could easily eat a guppy fry or young guppy

I have a 29gal with a seachem tidal filter. It has a built in skimmer that keeps my duckweed in check. I still have duckweed, but it never seems to take over because the skimmer picks it off so fast. I do have to change out my filter floss about every 5 days, but I don't mind it. I get the perks of duckweed without the headache. For context, a 29 is 30" x 12", and my duckweed takes up maybe about a softball size circle on the surface on any given day. I do run high lights for about 8 hours a day and lots of ferts, as well for my other plants in the tank.

I really don't understand how anybody hates duckweed. Mine was sold to me as frog bit from my local pet store. I now know that it's duckweed lol but I love the look of it. I've actually purposely spread it to all of my tanks. When it gets too thick and starts to stack on itself, i just scoop out a bit and throw it away

Funny thing, I had a duckweed problem a while ago, but for some reason my dwarf gouramis started developing a taste for it after not doing anything to it after months, and a month later all the duckweeds are eradicated and I cant put them anymore

amazing video, thanks

cool content. not boring and good job.

amazing video and also super hilarious. liked and subbed and will be trying this method, my duckweed hopefully wont stand a chance

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

Watch your fish and make sure they're not getting too tired, consider a timer and maybe run it only 1 to 3 hours a day. I've got all mine on pause because I have a bunch of fry. When they get older they seem to take the current better but I also may just need better refuges like slates of stone.

@joeyjorczak406

8 ай бұрын

@@BrentonsFish its a standard 55 gallon so its a pretty tall tank, i think theres plenty of low flow space toward the bottom of the tank

@joeyjorczak406

8 ай бұрын

Also, If I run the pump long enough will it permanently kill the duckweed and I will be able to remove the pump eventually?

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

Oh okay you’ve got a lot of space to work with. You can remove the pump eventually. As long as it’s been agitating the duckweed for 3 weeks or more. You’ll see the duckweed fade away, there’s a point of no return when the duckweed has faded enough that’s it’s not coming back and then the air stones are enough to prevent a comeback.

once a week a take a small net and scoop duckweed from the aquariums , put it in a bag and freeze it for 24 hours. then I take the frozen duckweed and add it to the blend when I make snailo .

@BrentonsFish

9 ай бұрын

“We’re gonna need a bigger snail”

@sandman6617

8 ай бұрын

Huh??

I have a pond of comet goldfish and I have to keep a separate pool to grow duckweed because the fish eat it all, maybe because I don't feed them. Maybe you need some goldfish

I’ve had success with red root floaters having basically no surface agitation and as much light as I can afford to have over the tank. If you deprive them of nutrients for a week or two they’ll get super red. I have super hard water btw.

I learned a lot while laughing, thx:)

I got duckweed because of its benefits (I didn't know about other types of floating plants) and now its getting everywhere and its making aquarium tasks very difficult had lost a pair of rare chocolate mollies oxygen deficiency and I had enough... another tip I use to sort of control its to let the light be on for more hours than usual, duckweed don't like light that much and they sort of reduce their size, if you have your tanks indoors just turning off the lights more often kind of also wilt although this one is risky if you have other plants...

Featherhead minnows. Works every single time

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

✍️ add featherhead minnows to every tank.

Do you have an Amazon link to that grow room fan? Thanks!

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

"Woozoo Globe Multi-Directional 5-Speed Oscillating Fan" on ebay. It's sold out at Costco, it's $76 on Amazon but I found it for $50 on eBay.

Manual removal then a skimmer type filter with a top intake, clean every day as the duckweed collect at the intake

I must be the only one who's never been able to get duckweed to take hold in any tank or pond. I've had it hitch in on other plants and I look at it and it will float there and the plants will live, look healthy but it never takes off.

I’ve got water lettuce and it doesn’t grow anywhere near the size of yours. How do you do it? It covers the tank with a giant interconnected web in 1-2 weeks but none of them ever get bigger than dime-size.

@tysenp8193

9 ай бұрын

Soft, acidic tank water btw. The tank has caradina shrimp

@BrentonsFish

9 ай бұрын

It's even the dwarf water lettuce which is smaller (is that an actual thing? the seller told me it was but could be marketing). I get different sizes in different tanks. It's the light. Those round ponds were outside under the sun a few weeks ago and now they’re under led grow lights for 14 hrs. We may be polar opposites water-wise. My PH is 7.4 out of the pipes and it's med-hard water. Around 200-300ppm. Under my $8 aquarium led the lettuce grows smaller, but not smaller than a golf ball on average.

@voluntaryismistheanswer

8 ай бұрын

It's small and flat on indoor mode and then poofs up in summer outdoors

i recently got a 44gallon tank and when i was setting it up the duckweed invaded... but something that came with the tank i bought was a wave maker. it was like a snowglobe of duckweed!

Just give it to me, I manage to kill it off somehow and have to keep purchasing more. What am I doing wrong???? I have 10 gallons with only a betta, low flow filter.

Hell yeah brother man, show that duckweed who's boss. The pond buckets are looking very nice :)

@BrentonsFish

9 ай бұрын

Yatta!!

@voluntaryismistheanswer

8 ай бұрын

I just mulched with a bucket of mine from my pond lol, even the goldies can't keep up

This video is gold! Halarios!

Kills all your more valuable time consuming to grow plants

ive bought duckweed a few times but my apple snail ended up eating all of them each time. now im trying agin on a shrimp tank without snails and it goes crazy

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

✍️ I’m creating a list of animals that eat duckweed

I tried growing duckweed in my tank twice but it all died due to filter flow for me.

Thank the lord i dont have duckweed. Closest thing to duckweed i have is dwarf water lettuce... Out of two twenty longs under a grow light i manage to fill the surface every week. I scoop out about 3/4 of it only to do it again 7 days later. Both tanks have a carpet of pearlweed with rotala in the two back corners some hornwort floating around(which grows as stupidly fast as the dwarf water lettuce) and a bunch of pothos and pink polka dot plants growing out the top... I feel like im the supplier for the local fish store with dwarf water lettuce, hornwort, pearlweed, rotala, pothos and pink polka dot plants. I really have to learn how to ship plants... I got to damn many haha

Bruh the duckweed died in my aquarium, everything does really well except moss and duckweed, two of the easiest things to take care of and it blows my mind

@BrentonsFish

7 ай бұрын

I will say each moss has its own story. I don’t want to encourage you to waste money but if you really want moss, I’ve tried like 8 mosses and 4 of them really like me, the other 4 died. Pilo moss, weeping moss, Taiwan moss worked well for me (so maybe don’t choose this because my water is different). Java moss is a nightmare for me, it seemed so sensitive.

Can you put a link to the music you use?

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

The great cave offensive - Kirby super star

I have one tank where I have a couple of blood parrots and angel fish that would eat duckweed gone in less than hour.

I’ve learnt to embrace it, harvest it for the gold fish

Forgive me if I am missing something... I just scoop it out with a net. Take off lid let water sit for 5 mins. Spend about an hour scooping. And duckweed hiding under water should reach the surface in the next day or 2. Repeat every other day until gone.

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

With 27 tanks spending an hour scooping will be 27 hours total.

@RosefMudson1414

7 ай бұрын

hire some guy at home depot parking lot@@BrentonsFish

just made a small order of an aquarium plant from you on your website. Hope you're still in operation. Guess I should have asked before.....

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! Yes, the website is always runnin unless a hurricane is comin. I’ll be sending your order this Saturday. Thanks again.

This is a funny video 😅 I feel for you. It looks really cool when there are 10 of them should I get rid of them?

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

Bail! There's probably 120 now.

@i_nvade8098

8 ай бұрын

@@BrentonsFish mine for some reason stick to plants they don't raise to top is that bad?

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

I didn’t see this reply! That’s not bad for the duckweed. They’ll wiggle out and float again. Frogbit will die if it’s left submerged but not duckeeed.

@i_nvade8098

8 ай бұрын

@BrentonsFish I just removed them all I see 1 or 2 once in a while I just remove it

Just hire a little goldfish for a while, JOB DONE!

haha , as i comment always , duckweed are nightmare on elm street , planted tank ver

I subscribed because of the aquarium glitter lol the term is spreading

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

The term has doubled it’s biomass every 24 hrs.

What's the big deal about scooping them out completely with a net one day and if in a few days you find some more just scoop out again and you won't see any more. I have done that 3 times. If I miss them I can get more and when I had enough I get rid of them again easily.

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

It’s always that one tiny piece that survives and creates a green blanket, I’m sure less than optimal water conditions may slow the duckweed but it grows solid in my high KH, hard water. I’m not in a duckweed cleaning mood everyday and the weed exploits this human weakness and makes a comeback. The way you described seems like duckweed keeps making its comeback on you too. I’m looking for duckweed free 100% and I got other fish chores other than manually scooping 20lbs of duckweed out of 27 tanks. I am not a bonsai tree trimmer nor am I interested in making such precise movements for millions of tiny plants the size of a flea. If I had a bare tank with no other plants or animals it would be simple. Scooping with net catches fish and knocks duckweed into hiding.

@LOSADM02

8 ай бұрын

@@BrentonsFish Oh, OK. Mine does not come back, I put it back if I miss it. And when I don't want it any more I scoop it and it's gone. Thanks for the advice and informing about that method.

Nice video. Feed ur snails dead leaves. They looked like they needed some calcium. I use leaves from the pond and yard. Cheers

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

That’s the hive mind magic of the internet. Thanks so much for the heads up. I’ve been desperate to get calcium in them and the tums seems to work only a little bit.

Mine disappeared when I put a surface skimmer

Personnaly i enjoy the look of duckweed, and to keep it without oxygen issues i made 3D printed floating rings and hanging tubes to isolate the flow out of the pum from the rest of the surface. That way there are still clear areas and no duckweed thrown underwater clogging the filter and roting.

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

As soon as you think “okay duckweed, that’s enough,” it’s all out war.

@H2SO4pyro

8 ай бұрын

@@BrentonsFish Nah, i'm keeping the excess dried and powdered as shrimp food. The little buggers seems to love it ! :D

I'll see you duckweed, and raise you blue green cyano. ;)

my only co2 tank has jungle vas going crazy in it, spreads just as fast lmao

@voluntaryismistheanswer

8 ай бұрын

I planted summer tubs with it and I'm sitting here with buckets trying to find room

my duckweed is just dying off without me doing anything no idea why

I have 7 tanks....one time i found one....ONE little four leaf clover little duck weed.....now i have four tanks and PROBABLY nout 10 pounds of it......from ONE little tiny piece

Haha, you need to do equilibrium with your ecosystems, Goldfish love to eat that hehe

@BrentonsFish

7 ай бұрын

What does equilibrium do? Are you saying that gets rid of the duckweed? Or you talking snail shells? I’ve been dosing it to my mystery’s 4x a month but it recently occurred to me that I haven’t been premixing the solution.

I'll take 1 egg and watercress sandwich to go thank you Perni sorry I mean Brenton.

@BrentonsFish

7 ай бұрын

Yatta!

My black ruby barbs make quick work of duckweed.

Try a skimmer like, for example, the Eheim 350 and you'll kiss goodbye any floating annoyance 😉

A few months ago I started with a handful duckweed and I wanted to have more of it but it got so bad that I recently scooped it all out and threw it away and that was the best decision I made.

So duckweed depletes oxygen in the water?

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

There’s debate in this, it’s almost a wife’s tale. Scientifically no, only rotting duckweed consumes oxygen, duckweed creates oxygen however I’ve seen my fish have trouble when air pumps were unable to agitate the water surface through the duckweed blanket and the tank is heavy stocked. Anecdotally it’s an issue for me.

i hope i get a duckweed invasion someday. so i can eat it.

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

There’s an abnormal amount of comments that have brought this up. Making me wonder about y'all.

@sunnyd9884

5 ай бұрын

hello, youtube says its been three months, i got my invasion when i intended to only plant water lettuce. It is very delicious, but i also have regrets@@BrentonsFish

@sunnyd9884

5 ай бұрын

oh and that aside im also feeding it to the koi pond

Surface skimmer?

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

I think it takes too long. It captures fry and gets duckweed two tablespoons at a time. By the time you empty the skimmer 50 times you may as well used the net. Perhaps it's my approach.

I run a sump, I have never had a duckweed problem even when I get hitchhikers. As a matter of fact I've never had duckweed and those odd occasions when I did end up with a piece or two they are instantly filtered out of the system. I have never had a use for duckweed so I just don't use it, never needed to.

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

I've never considered that

@kosys5338

8 ай бұрын

@@BrentonsFish I have a 90 gallon tank that is drilled, the tank has a weir on the overflow. It 100% skims the surface of the tank and anything floating on the surface ends up in a filter sock including duckweed. It would drive me nuts having to deal with duckweed sticking to everything. I'm just too lazy to deal with Duckweed lol.

Ducks actually love duck weed for food. Even though that doesn't help.

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

I do like ducks.

As a collector of floating plants, it's annoying but I still love it 😂

in my experience when you have duckweed problem Put some goldfish in thae tank and let them starving . just 1 week after no any single duckweed in my sigh.

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

It’s not a bad plan honestly. I could shift all of my guppies and fry to a new tank. The shrimp would be very hard to collect 100%. All of the plants would be in danger and a pain to move without the duckweed clinging to it.

omg this is hilarious man

Wow, i love duckweed and thought it was good for your tanks. My tetras actually eat it lol

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

What kind of tetras? They may be my new favorite fish.

@davidolivares6421

8 ай бұрын

@@BrentonsFish I have a couple stripped zebra danios that have been munching on them. I normally clean off the excess duckweed from my hand/arms in their tank and within a day or so they've eaten it all. I also don't feed daily so that could be part of it. My neon tetras may be eating some too, learning from the danios. I expected the duckweed to take over but any floating debris has been eaten thus far.

@davidolivares6421

8 ай бұрын

Meant to say Danios - but they are black neon tetras@@BrentonsFish

I use it to feed my goldfish tank. They absolutely love it!

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

Duckweed is way better in fish poop form.

@meminustherandomgooglenumbers

8 ай бұрын

@@BrentonsFishI heard some people say add a feeder goldfish, they’ll clean the tank. But I bet you prolly gotta scoop the bulk of the duckweed out first. Also I heard people say they mash it up and make fish food with it, they say more types of fish eat it that way, and it’s very nutritious. They’re even looking at using it for astronaut food for flying to other planets.

ill have to try crystal wort later, thanks

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

Crystalwort is one the few plants I know that survives copper sulfate as well.

My duckweed is doing terrible in my new tank but is somehow still annoying.

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

This is hilarious. Hell hath no fury.

Lol this stopped me from putting duckweed in my aquarium.

@BrentonsFish

6 ай бұрын

Smart move, there's so many other floaters.

I can't keep duckweed alive for the life of me. I think we should meet 1/2 way :)

@BrentonsFish

25 күн бұрын

I will mail you some

If you didn't know, Spirodela Polyrhiza, Wolffia Globosa & lemna minor are all edible. So I mean... if you get peckish....

@BrentonsFish

8 ай бұрын

Well my plan for the apocalypse is all sorted then.

@sandy_carpetsthesecond5013

8 ай бұрын

@@BrentonsFish I mean, you wouldn't be entirely wrong. They're all pretty high in proteins, too, So they'd actually make a pretty good clutch food if you really needed it.

my goldfish love it

@BrentonsFish

7 ай бұрын

Need me some goldfish.