Please ID this plant

DragnX · 03-18-2013, 02:07 AM

What in the world is this plant? It floating on my tank. Is it dwarf baby tear?

keithy · 03-18-2013, 02:14 AM

duckweed. not drawf baby tears

DragnX · 03-18-2013, 02:34 AM

man I was hoping it was not duckweed. I thought duckweed have no roots.

keithy · 03-18-2013, 02:48 AM

I may be wrong as I am not too familar with floaters, but it does looks like some kind of duckweed. Depending on the size, it may be giant duckweed. The smaller duckweed is the ones that you don't want to have.

**sp33drhno** · 03-18-2013, 02:54 AM

That's definitely duckweed. It's a great nitrate sponge, but it gets everywhere, including your arms and whatever else you stick in the tank.

DragnX · 03-18-2013, 07:39 AM

Cuz I brought 3 mats of dwarf baby tears recently and most of them are gone. Then I started seeing these plants floating on tank.

03-18-2013, 02:07 AM	#1
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03-18-2013, 02:14 AM	#2
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03-18-2013, 02:48 AM	#4
keithy Planted Tank Enthusiast (View User Tanks) PTrader: (10/100%) Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Lexington, KY Posts: 837	I may be wrong as I am not too familar with floaters, but it does looks like some kind of duckweed. Depending on the size, it may be giant duckweed. The smaller duckweed is the ones that you don't want to have. __________________ Proud 39th Member of the RAOK club!

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sp33drhno Planted Tank Obsessed (View User Tanks) PTrader: (32/100%) Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 339	That's definitely duckweed. It's a great nitrate sponge, but it gets everywhere, including your arms and whatever else you stick in the tank. __________________ 40B-Meadow of Rasboras

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03-18-2013, 02:34 AM	#3
DragnX Algae Grower (View User Tanks) PTrader: (0/0%) Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Chicago,IL Posts: 24	man I was hoping it was not duckweed. I thought duckweed have no roots.

03-18-2013, 07:39 AM	#6
DragnX Algae Grower (View User Tanks) PTrader: (0/0%) Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Chicago,IL Posts: 24	Cuz I brought 3 mats of dwarf baby tears recently and most of them are gone. Then I started seeing these plants floating on tank.