ive been making my own fish food out of duckweed using a mix of your other two home made shrimp food recipes and they LOVE IT so much more then the store bought by itself.
🤣🤣🤣🤣bald, blind, baboon that keeps shrimp 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 so good to see you Mark! I miss your regular uploads! Always a nice surprise to see you’ve uploaded a video! ❤
I've yet to keep duckweed because it seems like the glitter equivalent in the aquarium world haha. I've grown to like Sylvania (the length of the roots used to bug me, but that quickly went away when I saw how my shrimp, snails, and fish all loved it.) Always grows like crazy, but is easy enough to maintain and stay on top of! I got one pot from Tropica and it's the plant that keeps on giving and giving! I like the use of a comb to skim the top of the tank. Love seeing this clever and simple application of household items. Very cool video. Always enjoy your content because you cover a lot of things I don't see on other channels. Thank you for sharing!
Love the channel mark but im gonna have to tell you a better way which is less electric and easier to clean up ha, I scoop all my excess duck weed and throw it into a large seed try and spread it out then either leave it near a window or outside if the weather permits you can also use an absorbent tray liner, Few days later you can then grab some roll it into small pea sized balls (damp your fingers if needed) which are perfect for chickens and ducks, The rest then if its dry enough you can skip to next step if not on baking paper either in the oven on a low heat or dehydrator. throw it in blender until dust, some of this powder can be used alongside other ingredients to make fertiliser and your house plants will love it the rest i mix with spirulina powder and nettle powder ( same process ) you can then use this to make shrimp sticks and algae wafers, usually stock up enough to last me through winter and most of the summer. Lastly anything extra goes straight in the compost bin the worms love it Give it a try works wonders ;)
Wish I could've warned you about the air-fryer method lol Glad you didn't burn your house down, because the dried duckweed could fly around in the fryer and hit the heating element. It's quite a fire hazard. Even a zucchini will weigh like feather after it's dried.
Mark The Shrimper. Maybe???? You crack me up, I enjoy your updates. Would it not be easier to have a rectangular or square container to do your transfers? Do you think your cooking ideas would work with other plant matter from the aquariums? I have millions of plants ( maybe hundreds only), I usually throw all the surplus into the compost, but I do like the idea of processing it to put back into the tank as fodder Also freezing it after processing will keep longer, and it disperses as it defrosts? Great video, love the idea. Thx
What a great idea! Thank you for your ingenuity! I'm going to try it because my shrimp tank gets overloaded with duckweed. The chicken poop is why I will never eat tilapia (or any farm raised fish... gross!). I've heard they use pig waste too. I can't imagine!
Muito interessante , um amigo meu da universidade rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE) . Esta justamente criando um projeto para estudar o efeito da lemna, tanto para peixes quanto neocaridinas .. ela tem propriedades muito interessantes , e o custo é muito pequeno .
I sent you a follow-up email. It must have been too lengthy, I didn't get a reply. :( I just trust your feedback for help. They are so much conflicting information out there. I will continue the trial and error and one day I will be satisfied with my learnings. I guess it will mean more to know you got there on your own. I wish you continued success and all the best.
I wonder how it works for the tank nutrients wise. I think of duckweed as a way to remove excess nutrients, nitrate and other chemicals from the water after we introduce those with food, water and additives. If we reintroduce those elements back to the tank, it might cancel the main benefit of duckweed. Don't know for sure, just the way I picture it.
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Man I laughed picturing duckweed flying around the airfryer!
Yeah it made such a mess, all the little bits were coming apart. 😂
Air fryers are fantastic just not for duckweed lol
@@harryfp1494 So true! They'd be great for salvinia too!
ive been making my own fish food out of duckweed using a mix of your other two home made shrimp food recipes and they LOVE IT so much more then the store bought by itself.
Great video, Mark! I love your humour. 😂 Brilliant idea, too.
Fascinating!
🤣🤣🤣🤣bald, blind, baboon that keeps shrimp 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 so good to see you Mark! I miss your regular uploads! Always a nice surprise to see you’ve uploaded a video! ❤
Wow the blanched duckweed is so good. What do you guys think?
are there any other floater plants you can use like duckweed or are things like frogbit and red root floaters not high in protein?
I have cut off long frog bit roots (about 6 to 10 inches) and left them fall where they may and it generated a ton of bio film.
It was is a neo tank and about 10 plants.
I've yet to keep duckweed because it seems like the glitter equivalent in the aquarium world haha. I've grown to like Sylvania (the length of the roots used to bug me, but that quickly went away when I saw how my shrimp, snails, and fish all loved it.) Always grows like crazy, but is easy enough to maintain and stay on top of! I got one pot from Tropica and it's the plant that keeps on giving and giving! I like the use of a comb to skim the top of the tank. Love seeing this clever and simple application of household items. Very cool video. Always enjoy your content because you cover a lot of things I don't see on other channels. Thank you for sharing!
Love the channel mark but im gonna have to tell you a better way which is less electric and easier to clean up ha, I scoop all my excess duck weed and throw it into a large seed try and spread it out then either leave it near a window or outside if the weather permits you can also use an absorbent tray liner, Few days later you can then grab some roll it into small pea sized balls (damp your fingers if needed) which are perfect for chickens and ducks,
The rest then if its dry enough you can skip to next step if not on baking paper either in the oven on a low heat or dehydrator. throw it in blender until dust, some of this powder can be used alongside other ingredients to make fertiliser and your house plants will love it the rest i mix with spirulina powder and nettle powder ( same process ) you can then use this to make shrimp sticks and algae wafers, usually stock up enough to last me through winter and most of the summer.
Lastly anything extra goes straight in the compost bin the worms love it
Give it a try works wonders ;)
Thank you for this tip on how to get tiny fry and shrimp out of the duckweed!
Im just about to try this
This is an amazing idea 👏
I love this idea! I hope you’re off hiatus and back to more frequent videos!
Wish I could've warned you about the air-fryer method lol Glad you didn't burn your house down, because the dried duckweed could fly around in the fryer and hit the heating element. It's quite a fire hazard. Even a zucchini will weigh like feather after it's dried.
Mark The Shrimper. Maybe???? You crack me up, I enjoy your updates.
Would it not be easier to have a rectangular or square container to do your transfers?
Do you think your cooking ideas would work with other plant matter from the aquariums? I have millions of plants ( maybe hundreds only), I usually throw all the surplus into the compost, but I do like the idea of processing it to put back into the tank as fodder
Also freezing it after processing will keep longer, and it disperses as it defrosts?
Great video, love the idea. Thx
Whar awesome video thanks for sharing
I love how you "Identify" in so many different ways. "fisher-person" LOL. Just start identifying as "tongue twisted"
I dry it , and coffee grind it , feed as powder to fry. Free food 😂 people hate it but my fish love it 🎉
What a great idea! Thank you for your ingenuity! I'm going to try it because my shrimp tank gets overloaded with duckweed.
The chicken poop is why I will never eat tilapia (or any farm raised fish... gross!). I've heard they use pig waste too. I can't imagine!
Great and informative video Mark 😀
Thanks 👍
Interesting might try this I usually just scoop it out and put it my goldfish tank and they clean It up for me.
I wonder if you could do the same thing with string algae? I have a tank that just won’t stop producing it lol
Cheers 🥂
I may try and blanch some and add it to my repashy
Will the blanched duckweed reproduce or does the blanching stop that from happening?
First you can't get rid of it. When you finally figure out a use you can't find it anywhere.
You can add calcium powder too.
Nice 👍
Genius😊
My wife will never know 😂 Cheers man.
is it maybe possible to dry it in a food dryer, that is how I dry all my spice from the garden (parsley, basil ......)
How does it compare to the food you made from it years ago?
much better, I was just in the shrimp room and all the food I added is gone in all the tanks.
Love the video and I am envious of your many tanks. Anyway, how long do you leave it in the tank if uneaten?
Its gone pretty fast so I wouldnt worry about that
Lemna duckweed is meant to be great for humans to, like you say full of protein and goodness and very easy to grow. Meant to make a nice peppery salad
Muito interessante , um amigo meu da universidade rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE) . Esta justamente criando um projeto para estudar o efeito da lemna, tanto para peixes quanto neocaridinas ..
ela tem propriedades muito interessantes , e o custo é muito pequeno .
I LOVE DUCKWEEEEEED
I sent you a follow-up email. It must have been too lengthy, I didn't get a reply. :( I just trust your feedback for help. They are so much conflicting information out there. I will continue the trial and error and one day I will be satisfied with my learnings. I guess it will mean more to know you got there on your own. I wish you continued success and all the best.
We dehydrate in the sun and then store
It’s always better than the light stuff
I wonder if I can blanch it and freeze it and feed to pleco fry… ? 🤔
yes that a great idea.
Hmmm if you fry duckweed and feed it again, you even get more duckweed in a tank where no duckweed is growing regular??
What do you think? 😮😊
i had to reset my tank because i couldnt get rid of snails ..... Seeing how duckweed is, i think i will avoid it, not trying to reset the tank again
I wonder how it works for the tank nutrients wise. I think of duckweed as a way to remove excess nutrients, nitrate and other chemicals from the water after we introduce those with food, water and additives. If we reintroduce those elements back to the tank, it might cancel the main benefit of duckweed. Don't know for sure, just the way I picture it.
Bladder snails will just skim across the surface and eat duckweed.
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Pronouns 😂😂😂😂 ohhhh god dont start 😅😅😅