NetMax wrote in message
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Regarding this gadget, does anyone have positive experience with it.

To Dunter, after you have laboriously removed every duckweed you find, my
experience is that there is always one more hiding somewhere, in a filter
pipe, under a leaf etc...

Oh, yes. This is NOT the first time I've performed this excercise.

Check again in about 1 week, to prevent the
next onslaught. It usually takes more than one episode of mechanical
removal to truly make your tank duckweed-free. Even though it's a
nuisance, I wish I could get rid of my snails as easily. Is there some
magic potion I could put in which would make all my snails float to the
surface where I could pick them off like duckweed? *humour*

Lettuce works for me in my open tanks. Just put a leaf of lettuce in every
night and remove it every morning. Depending on the variety of snail, it
should clean out the tank in a couple of weeks.

NetMax

"Carlos" wrote in message
...
theres somewhere in this news group someone who invented a gadget to
kill
duckweed or dispose of it as fast as possible, you can try finding it,
maybe subject is duckweed, i remember somewhere reading about it.

take care.


"Dunter Powries" wrote in message
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I spent two hours picking duckweed out of a 30" x 12" x 3" mat of
Riccia
with tweezers and a jewelers loupe while my four-year old ran around
my
legs
tunelessly screaming Christmas songs and my two-year old repeatedly
attempted to immerse himself in the rinse bucket. I HATE duckweed...
and,
at this point, nearly everything else.