Great fish room and an excellent hack/tip to do away with some of that pesky excess duckweed!! It's always cracked me up that is known as the "herpes" of our Aquariums and as glitter is to the craft world 😂😂 I can handle it until it's time for a water change and it ends up getting into all my plants, mosses and Subwasstang 😭😂😂 And of course all over me 😂😂 Definitely do a video on making it, plus your trip to Wendy's 😂 Can't wait to see the whole video! Always thank you for all your videos Andrew and I hope you have a very blessed weekend 🙏🌿🐟🌿💚
Shucks, we have to eat Wendy’s and get a drink to make a video. That’s a terrible existence. lol. Yeah I can handle it until I have to start bagging fish and I hate it so much that I spend more time cleaning it out than bagging fish lol. Whole video will be coming out here shortly.
Ducked is good for humans. Dry it, and coarsely grind it and add it to muffin or bread recipes, replacing equivalent amount of flour as a protein supplement. Alternately can use it fresh directly on salads. Plenty of recipes out there on the East Asian foodie sites
Huh. I don’t know if I would eat the duckweed from an aquarium but might take some from an aquaponic system to try eating. What is your favorite recipe using duckweed?
@@TheAquariumLibrary Never made it myself, but tried a Raisin Bran Muffin with Duckweed added. You noticed the flavor change, but it was still good. Not sure if I would use it on a lightly flavored bread/muffin, but have heard of people using it with Pancake mixes.
Cool gadget. I started using a wet/dry shop vacuum hold the tip about 3/4 of an inch from the surface of the water and it skims the surface, make sure to scrub the sides and underneath the rim. Do it once a week to grab any stragglers and in a few weeks even the most infested tanks are duck weed free.
@@TheAquariumLibrary If the tank is heavily infested like mine were then take out any floating plant that you want to save. That is where it likes to hide so wash them well and put them in a different container for quarantine. I have been having a cold war with duck weed for years but this summer it got hot. I knew that it has to be completely wiped out from all tanks or it will just spread again. I first took my smaller 5 gallon and under tanks removed the fish and filters and took them outside and overflowed them. That worked and I just had to manually remove any stragglers in the following weeks. I wasn't sure how I was going to do the bigger tanks then I thought I would give the shop vac a try. I worked even better than overflowing the tank, I didn't have to remove the fish and if you are just sucking up the odd leftover duckweed you don't even have to remove your other floating plants if you are careful. The only tanks I have any duck weed issues with are the two that run hang on backs. The intake filters had a lot of duckweed in them which I didn't clean out as well as I could of, and the output would send it into the other plants. So, I have to do spot checks ever once and a while and they are about clean, but every other tank has been clear for months now.
@@TheAquariumLibrary I never thought I would get it under control. You have to clean where it likes to hide, the sides, under the rim and in other floating plants. I used a premade mini surface skimmer that worked ok but this DIY one in the video has more power. Instead of having to do periodic cleanings in the following weeks to remove the stragglers, I would probably just make one of these gadgets and run it for the next few weeks. Which is important because there will always be some popping back up, usually pieces that got stuck in other plants that eventually come to the surface.
Yeah there is some exciting stuff that people are looking at to try and better utilize this amazing little plant because it has such a higher protein content.
I accidentally introduced duckweed to my aquarium. I scooped every bit I could see out including inside my filter. Made a fairly strong current on surface for a couple of weeks. There was no area that had no flow. Floating plants hate being in current. Job done, duckweed gone and Kyle found innocent.
Strong surface agitation definitely helps disrupt floating plants though Brandon utilizes air filtration throughout his fish room. He doesn’t like running powerheads or canister filters to create that flow. I guess you could run them continuously for 2 weeks in a tank and then move it but I don’t know how much his guppies would like that much flow in a tank.
Great fish room and an excellent hack/tip to do away with some of that pesky excess duckweed!!
It's always cracked me up that is known as the "herpes" of our Aquariums and as glitter is to the craft world 😂😂
I can handle it until it's time for a water change and it ends up getting into all my plants, mosses and Subwasstang 😭😂😂
And of course all over me 😂😂
Definitely do a video on making it, plus your trip to Wendy's 😂
Can't wait to see the whole video!
Always thank you for all your videos Andrew and I hope you have a very blessed weekend 🙏🌿🐟🌿💚
Shucks, we have to eat Wendy’s and get a drink to make a video. That’s a terrible existence. lol.
Yeah I can handle it until I have to start bagging fish and I hate it so much that I spend more time cleaning it out than bagging fish lol.
Whole video will be coming out here shortly.
Ducked is good for humans. Dry it, and coarsely grind it and add it to muffin or bread recipes, replacing equivalent amount of flour as a protein supplement. Alternately can use it fresh directly on salads. Plenty of recipes out there on the East Asian foodie sites
Huh. I don’t know if I would eat the duckweed from an aquarium but might take some from an aquaponic system to try eating.
What is your favorite recipe using duckweed?
@@TheAquariumLibrary Never made it myself, but tried a Raisin Bran Muffin with Duckweed added. You noticed the flavor change, but it was still good. Not sure if I would use it on a lightly flavored bread/muffin, but have heard of people using it with Pancake mixes.
Cool gadget. I started using a wet/dry shop vacuum hold the tip about 3/4 of an inch from the surface of the water and it skims the surface, make sure to scrub the sides and underneath the rim. Do it once a week to grab any stragglers and in a few weeks even the most infested tanks are duck weed free.
Huh. That also would be a very good to get rid of duckweed. Does it work with other floating plants?
@@TheAquariumLibrary If the tank is heavily infested like mine were then take out any floating plant that you want to save. That is where it likes to hide so wash them well and put them in a different container for quarantine. I have been having a cold war with duck weed for years but this summer it got hot. I knew that it has to be completely wiped out from all tanks or it will just spread again. I first took my smaller 5 gallon and under tanks removed the fish and filters and took them outside and overflowed them. That worked and I just had to manually remove any stragglers in the following weeks. I wasn't sure how I was going to do the bigger tanks then I thought I would give the shop vac a try. I worked even better than overflowing the tank, I didn't have to remove the fish and if you are just sucking up the odd leftover duckweed you don't even have to remove your other floating plants if you are careful. The only tanks I have any duck weed issues with are the two that run hang on backs. The intake filters had a lot of duckweed in them which I didn't clean out as well as I could of, and the output would send it into the other plants. So, I have to do spot checks ever once and a while and they are about clean, but every other tank has been clear for months now.
Huh. That does sound a lot better than having to overflow a tank.
@@TheAquariumLibrary I never thought I would get it under control. You have to clean where it likes to hide, the sides, under the rim and in other floating plants. I used a premade mini surface skimmer that worked ok but this DIY one in the video has more power. Instead of having to do periodic cleanings in the following weeks to remove the stragglers, I would probably just make one of these gadgets and run it for the next few weeks. Which is important because there will always be some popping back up, usually pieces that got stuck in other plants that eventually come to the surface.
Yeah Brandon when he used it found that in 24 hours most everything was gone. It was a very passive way to get rid of duckweed.
Duckweed doesnt effect gas exchange. Its used in waste water treatment plants and contains 35% protein. Pretty amazing plant.
Yeah there is some exciting stuff that people are looking at to try and better utilize this amazing little plant because it has such a higher protein content.
Yes do a how to video please on both please 👍👍
We will see if we can make it happen.
I never got duckweed until I started feeding a certain flake food. The only tanks that have it are the ones I fed that food to.
Huh. That is very interesting.
Lol, another trick....but mother nature will find a way....
She always does. This can at least help control it and avoid having to spend lots of time with a net fishing it out.
I accidentally introduced duckweed to my aquarium. I scooped every bit I could see out including inside my filter. Made a fairly strong current on surface for a couple of weeks. There was no area that had no flow. Floating plants hate being in current. Job done, duckweed gone and Kyle found innocent.
Strong surface agitation definitely helps disrupt floating plants though Brandon utilizes air filtration throughout his fish room. He doesn’t like running powerheads or canister filters to create that flow. I guess you could run them continuously for 2 weeks in a tank and then move it but I don’t know how much his guppies would like that much flow in a tank.
DUCKWEED. ME HATE.
SAME.