<\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nAn aquarium ring is actually designed to keep your fish’s food contained in one place, but it will work fine for keeping duckweed contained too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. Increase Surface Agitation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Duckweed reproduces best on the surface of still or slow-flowing water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Increasing water surface agitation is a great way to control duckweed, this can be done using a powerful HOB filter or having a powerhead at the top of the tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sponge filters can work too, but they tend to only keep the area above the filter free of duckweed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3. Manual Trimming<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Using a net to remove duckweed on a regular basis is the quickest and easiest method to help keep it under control, make sure you don’t use the same net in other tanks unless you want another duckweed outbreak!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
4. Limiting The Use Of Tank Lights<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Plants use light to grow and reproduce as part of the photosynthesis process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Limiting the amount of light you give to your duckweed could help with keeping it under control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
5. Keep Fish That Feed On It<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
As covered further up the post, many fish will eat duckweed, but always make sure your nitrogen cycle can handle the extra bio load before adding new tank mates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Closing Thoughts…..<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
So, is duckweed in aquariums good or bad? I prefer not to put it in my aquariums as the cons outweigh the pros for me, but there are many people out there that love duckweed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you’re still unsure whether to try duckweed in your aquarium, maybe try similar floating plants that aren’t as high maintenance such as frogbit, water lettuce, or red root floater if you fancy a change from green plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Check out the aquascaping<\/a> section for more guides on making your fish tank look its best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can you put duckweed in an aquarium? Yes, you can. But, before you go out and buy some, read this post and weigh up the pros and cons. It grows very fast and can quickly become a nightmare if it gets out of hand!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquaristgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquaristgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquaristgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquaristgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquaristgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aquaristgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquaristgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aquaristgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquaristgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aquaristgeek.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}