On Fri, 6 Mar 2009, Bob Hobden wrote

"Sacha" wrote
Any chance that frogs and/or tadpoles eat duckweed?!

It's taken me years to get rid of the stuff on our pond, had to buy a
skimmer (Oase SwimSkim) in the end and that has worked so far. Never seen
any of our fish eat it, indeed when they gulp down a mouthful of pellets and
accidentally get some Duckweed too they spit it out.
Maybe it's not carp that eat it.


Well it's not frogs either, or water snails, both of which are plentiful
in our tiny pond in France. I even saw a water snake basking in it,
resting on a cushion of duckweed. I wish I could find something that
would eat it - what fish might?

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Kate B

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