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Lesser duckweed (Lemna minor)
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| Common Name: |
Lesser duckweed |
| Proper Name: |
Lemna minor |
| Category: |
Floating Plants |
| Temperature: |
15 - 30 C |
| PH: |
6 - 8 |
| Lighting: |
High |
| Growth Rate: |
Fast |
| Difficulty: |
Very Easy |
| Origin: |
Cosmopolitan |
| Position in Aquascape: |
Floating |
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Planted Tank Obsessed
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This duckweed has only one root per thallus lobe.
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Nice surface covering plant for a any kind of light set-up. I started with only three little single ones. Since then its reproduced enough of it to completely cover a 55gal, 29gal, 20 gal long, and a 5gal in two months. Spreads fast but extremely hard to get rid of.
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Liking the 37g
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i love this stuff it grows like crazy in a medium light no Co2 tank
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Junior Member
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This stuff is the bane of my exsistance. grows extremely fast and crazy hard to get rid of.
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Newbie
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One of the best NO2-NO3 cleaner in the tank.Together with Eichornia crassipes are used in purification of water procedures.
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Algae Grower
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I am possibly one of the few people who have managed to kill them off faster than they can reproduce. I believe it was the low pH of the water and that one of our bulbs was a 12000K ..Those two issues have since been addressed though. So, the duckweed is making a comeback
As a side note, if you happen to also have a separate goldfish tank, you could just dump them into that tank if you're trying to rid yourself of it from another tank . They love to gobble it all up.
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Algae Grower
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I hate this stuff -_____-
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Wannabe Guru
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Baby angel fish like to eat the root off this stuff. Good plant for helping cycle a tank.
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Victor Pimp last x + 1
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I had the worst case of this stuff imaginable. I put two $4.99 size oranda into my 150 gallon high light/CO2 tank that was completely overrun with duckweed. I netted as much of it as I could, then let the Oranda have at it. When I returned from an out-of-town trip 2 weeks later, I had big, fat Oranda and not a spec of duckweed.
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Algae Grower
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It is close to impossible to get rid of this plant. It does provide a floating carpet, very good to provide shade to other plants, but a mess if you got to catch a fish or work on the tank.
I now sell it on ebay as goldfish natural greens..  They seem to love it, so does turtles and most platties and mollies.
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