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.

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
...
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.

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. 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*

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
...
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.

NetMax wrote in message
.. .
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
...
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.

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. 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*

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
...
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.

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. 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*

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
...
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.

NetMax wrote in message
.. .
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
...
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.

It just occurred to me to ask... The only tanks I have duckweed in are
tanks I do not have pl*cos in. I've never seen pl*cos eating duckweed and,
frankly, have a hard time visualizing how they would physically position
themselves in order to do so. Does anyone have any direct eyeball-type
evidence of pl*cos eating duckweed?

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
...
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.

It just occurred to me to ask... The only tanks I have duckweed in are
tanks I do not have pl*cos in. I've never seen pl*cos eating duckweed and,
frankly, have a hard time visualizing how they would physically position
themselves in order to do so. Does anyone have any direct eyeball-type
evidence of pl*cos eating duckweed?

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
...
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.

It just occurred to me to ask... The only tanks I have duckweed in are
tanks I do not have pl*cos in. I've never seen pl*cos eating duckweed and,
frankly, have a hard time visualizing how they would physically position
themselves in order to do so. Does anyone have any direct eyeball-type
evidence of pl*cos eating duckweed?

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
...
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.

It just occurred to me to ask... The only tanks I have duckweed in are
tanks I do not have pl*cos in. I've never seen pl*cos eating duckweed and,
frankly, have a hard time visualizing how they would physically position
themselves in order to do so. Does anyone have any direct eyeball-type
evidence of pl*cos eating duckweed?

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
...
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.

It just occurred to me to ask... The only tanks I have duckweed in are
tanks I do not have pl*cos in. I've never seen pl*cos eating duckweed and,
frankly, have a hard time visualizing how they would physically position
themselves in order to do so. Does anyone have any direct eyeball-type
evidence of pl*cos eating duckweed?

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
...
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.

"Dunter Powries" wrote in
:

It just occurred to me to ask... The only tanks I have duckweed in
are tanks I do not have pl*cos in. I've never seen pl*cos eating
duckweed and, frankly, have a hard time visualizing how they would
physically position themselves in order to do so. Does anyone have
any direct eyeball-type evidence of pl*cos eating duckweed?

I've seen SAEs eat it, but I think that's because they were bored. IIRC
some other fish eats it too, but it's not one you'd want in a tank.

To get the stuff on the water, I usually just troll with a net (I have a
massive one with fine mesh that works wonders). Then I pick out my frogbit
and put it back in

~Empty

--
'You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it
kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other
till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains,
children, it's blood... blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may
be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.'
Spike

"Dunter Powries" wrote in
:

It just occurred to me to ask... The only tanks I have duckweed in
are tanks I do not have pl*cos in. I've never seen pl*cos eating
duckweed and, frankly, have a hard time visualizing how they would
physically position themselves in order to do so. Does anyone have
any direct eyeball-type evidence of pl*cos eating duckweed?

I've seen SAEs eat it, but I think that's because they were bored. IIRC
some other fish eats it too, but it's not one you'd want in a tank.

To get the stuff on the water, I usually just troll with a net (I have a
massive one with fine mesh that works wonders). Then I pick out my frogbit
and put it back in

~Empty

--
'You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it
kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other
till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains,
children, it's blood... blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may
be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.'
Spike

"Dunter Powries" wrote in
:

It just occurred to me to ask... The only tanks I have duckweed in
are tanks I do not have pl*cos in. I've never seen pl*cos eating
duckweed and, frankly, have a hard time visualizing how they would
physically position themselves in order to do so. Does anyone have
any direct eyeball-type evidence of pl*cos eating duckweed?

I've seen SAEs eat it, but I think that's because they were bored. IIRC
some other fish eats it too, but it's not one you'd want in a tank.

To get the stuff on the water, I usually just troll with a net (I have a
massive one with fine mesh that works wonders). Then I pick out my frogbit
and put it back in

~Empty

--
'You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it
kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other
till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains,
children, it's blood... blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may
be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.'
Spike