Any photo's?

[roadmaster]

Wondering if someone could post photo of floating duck weed to help identify the floating plant that has taken over all my tanks due to same net's,bucket's, used for all tanks.
I cannot post pictures from computer here at work and have no computer at home.
I first thought the plant may be riccia, but perhap's it is duck weed.
The plant leaves often seem to be made up of three leaves and resemble three leaf clover,and plant leaves are roughly 1/2 cm in diameter with tiny root's .
Fishes love the stuff,but me,,not so much.
Get's on everything that comes near the tank during maint ,carpeting too, and is especially fond of sticking to the hairs on my arm's.
Does not like good surface movement and I can somewhat control it's growth in this way.

 

[Greenfinger2]

Hi Roadmaster, One photo of Duck weed 😉

 

[roadmaster]

Ahh! thanks for the image.
Believe this may be it.
My sister introduced the stuff to my tanks with some cherry shrimps a couple year's ago. Okay, she gave me the shrimp which were in a bucket with the stuff. It was I who actually introduced it.

 

[Greenfinger2]

Hi Roadmaster,

I made the same mistake once .Took me ages to get rid of it Not sure but i don't think it likes a lot of flow at the surface ?? I took out as much as pos 😱
and then increased the surface flow it seemed to die off. Took some time though

 

[roadmaster]

Would happily break into the "Carlton dance" at public mall to be rid of it.

 

[Aleksej]

I had an outbreak of this last year inadvertently introduced with some new livestock. Here's the method I used, it all cleared up in two or three weeks.

1. Catch the bulk of it with a fish net.
2. Using a large diameter hose (filter hose will do), do your normal (weekly) water change. Except...after starting the syphon, upturn the hose intake and point it at the water surface, keeping it about a centimer or so below the surface. You should see a small cyclone forming and some air will be pulled in, but if the distance is right the syphon won't break. Vacuum up everything until you've reached the amount of water you want to remove.
3. Repeat 1 & 2 until no duckweed is left. (In my case two or three WC did the trick.)

Turning of your filter during the cleaning might make it easier the catch the last bits.

Good luck; you should be rid of it soon enough.

 

[Greenfinger2]

I had an outbreak of this last year inadvertently introduced with some new livestock. Here's the method I used, it all cleared up in two or three weeks.

1. Catch the bulk of it with a fish net.
2. Using a large diameter hose (filter hose will do), do your normal (weekly) water change. Except...after starting the syphon, upturn the hose intake and point it at the water surface, keeping it about a centimer or so below the surface. You should see a small cyclone forming and some air will be pulled in, but if the distance is right the syphon won't break. Vacuum up everything until you've reached the amount of water you want to remove.
3. Repeat 1 & 2 until no duckweed is left. (In my case two or three WC did the trick.)

Turning of your filter during the cleaning might make it easier the catch the last bits.

Good luck; you should be rid of it soon enough.

Hi Aleksej, Neat Idea 😎