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Are you sure your not looking for some Duck butter there Benign
Pudding boy? I think its duck butter that your searching for! ------- I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know! |
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wrote: Does anyone know of a trustworthy source for duckweed on the web? People BUY that stuff? I consider it a pest at best a noxious weed at worst. If you lived near me I'd give you garbage bags full of the crap. -- Need Mercedes parts? http://parts.mbz.org Richard Sexton | Mercedes stuff: http://mbz.org 1970 280SE, 72 280SE | Home pages: http://rs79.vrx.net 633CSi 250SE/C 300SD | http://aquaria.net http://killi.net |
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On Apr 23, 1:01 pm, (Richard Sexton) wrote:
In article .com, wrote: Does anyone know of a trustworthy source for duckweed on the web? People BUY that stuff? I consider it a pest at best a noxious weed at worst. If you lived near me I'd give you garbage bags full of the crap. Duckweed is important if you are running a natural low-tech tank. Instead of changing the water you scoop out some of the duckweed. The only water that gets changed in my tank is whatever is in the biofilter when I clean it. |
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On May 6, 1:28 pm, Vreejack wrote:
On Apr 23, 1:01 pm, (Richard Sexton) wrote: In article .com, wrote: Does anyone know of a trustworthy source for duckweed on the web? People BUY that stuff? I consider it a pest at best a noxious weed at worst. If you lived near me I'd give you garbage bags full of the crap. Duckweed is important if you are running a natural low-tech tank. Instead of changing the water you scoop out some of the duckweed. The only water that gets changed in my tank is whatever is in the biofilter when I clean it. Floating plants also help to shade other plants when you have too much light. I have 120W of fluorescent on my 29 gallon tank. |
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Vreejack" wrote in message
ps.com... On Apr 23, 1:01 pm, (Richard Sexton) wrote: In article .com, wrote: Does anyone know of a trustworthy source for duckweed on the web? People BUY that stuff? I consider it a pest at best a noxious weed at worst. If you lived near me I'd give you garbage bags full of the crap. Duckweed is important if you are running a natural low-tech tank. Instead of changing the water you scoop out some of the duckweed. The only water that gets changed in my tank is whatever is in the biofilter when I clean it. That's really interesting. I ended up with some duckweed in one of my tanks, probably due to adding a plant, and now it's in all my tanks. I scoop it out periodically and give it to my pond goldfish. I find it a mild annoyance but I've never tried very hard to get rid of it entirely. Sounds like it's actually doing some good! I still do partial water changes, but only about once a month. So far all my fish seem healthy. Gail |
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In article om,
Vreejack wrote: On Apr 23, 1:01 pm, (Richard Sexton) wrote: In article .com, wrote: Does anyone know of a trustworthy source for duckweed on the web? People BUY that stuff? I consider it a pest at best a noxious weed at worst. If you lived near me I'd give you garbage bags full of the crap. Duckweed is important if you are running a natural low-tech tank. Instead of changing the water you scoop out some of the duckweed. The only water that gets changed in my tank is whatever is in the biofilter when I clean it. Ah! So there's a name for my particular brand of aquatic neglect. -- Need Mercedes parts? http://parts.mbz.org Richard Sexton | Mercedes stuff: http://mbz.org 1970 280SE, 72 280SE | Home pages: http://rs79.vrx.net 633CSi 250SE/C 300SD | http://aquaria.net http://killi.net |
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On May 8, 1:10 am, (Richard Sexton) wrote:
In article om, Vreejack wrote: On Apr 23, 1:01 pm, (Richard Sexton) wrote: In article .com, wrote: Does anyone know of a trustworthy source for duckweed on the web? People BUY that stuff? I consider it a pest at best a noxious weed at worst. If you lived near me I'd give you garbage bags full of the crap. Duckweed is important if you are running a natural low-tech tank. Instead of changing the water you scoop out some of the duckweed. The only water that gets changed in my tank is whatever is in the biofilter when I clean it. Ah! So there's a name for my particular brand of aquatic neglect. If you let it go the duckweed will eventually screen out all the light. This is why many aquatic plants secrete allelochemicals that stymie duckweed growth (and even more importantly, algae). Many plants can stop floaters from germinating, and some lilies can actually kill duckweed outright. If you change the water frequently this will not happen because the allelochems will be removed, but it should be said that many aquatic plants have similar effects on each other and the interactions are difficult to sort out. If you run a natural tank like I do then you have to find out the hard way which plants are being stunted by others. |
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Duckweed is important if you are active a accustomed low-tech tank. Instead of alteration the baptize you beat out some of the duckweed. The only baptize that gets afflicted in my catchbasin is whatever is in the biofilter if I apple-pie it.
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