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I had heard that duckweeds were in some paludariums, but I had no idea of the extreme usefulness of it. I found out today that duckweed is an excellent way to suck up extra nutrients from the water! This sounds like a bad thing at first, but sometimes there are things in the water that simply shouldn’t be — and duckweed will cure that problem!
If there are fish in the tank, you will probably need to change the water, since fish can be messy animals. But wait! Duckweed will clean the water for you! In fact, everything that a goldfish puts out, duckweed will absorb, and then, in turn, the goldfish will eat the duckweed! Having too many goldfish might be a bad thing, since all the duckweed will soon disappear, but one goldfish should probably be able to peacefully exist in a pond covered with duckweed!
Now I’ve solved two problems — animals making a mess of the water and having to feed the fish. So I can’t say for sure what else will be in the paludarium yet, but a goldfish and duckweed will definitely be part of it.
Your duckweed-eating herbivore,
Jared
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I have a small pond (150 gallons) that I have a variety of small fish (goldfish guppies) in. I am having to clean the filter to the pump every 2 weeks and feed the fish every day, which does not sound too bad, but when I leave town and have someone else take care of it, they always mess it up, and it takes weeks to stabilize afterwards. the duckweed sounds ideal. Where do I get seeds, and does it grow in the water or do I need to have a perlite bed for it?
Comment by Michael January 21, 2009 @ 9:06 pm