I'm growing some swords in a one gallon fish bowl and I'm over dosing ferts and I have moss and what I thought was duckweed hitchhikers but this potential duckweed is growing weird. Is it in fact duckweed? I know I have a lot of algae in there but it's from the overdose of ferts and the 15 watt cfl over the one gallon bowl.
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FreshwaterTropical
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I would say that is not duckweed! It might be some moss or something?
FreshwaterTropical
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Huh I don't know then!
aqua_chem
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Doesnt look like glosso or hc. Maybe a marsilea? Google marsilea minuta and marsilea quadrafolia and see if it looks like either of those.
It might be water clover but how did i come about it. My most recent purchase was the Singapore moss its clung to and that was a month ago. It makes me think if my duckweed is even duckweed at all. I did buy the duckweed three months ago from aquarium plants . Com as an hc Cuba order and got this instead.
FreshwaterTropical
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That's not duckweed by the way! Duckweed is little leaves that float at the top of the water and have 1 little root going down. Google for pics.
FreshwaterTropical
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Ok well! If you want this other stuff out just pull it out or leave it in! It's your tank, I just don't know what it is!
mfdrookie516
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frogbit? if not, could you get a better picture of it, on a paper towel or something?
aqua_chem
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I would agree. I saw some pennywort the other day and your mystery plant was the first thing I thought of.
. Thanks everyone
mfdrookie516
Aquarium Free - 2+ Years
I never would have guessed it from the first picture. The second picture makes it really easy. That stuff grows like crazy btw... I had some until I realized it grew too quickly to keep up with it.
mfdrookie516
Aquarium Free - 2+ Years
I planted mine and it took off in every direction. You can see in this picture that it mainly grew up at a little bit of an angle, but over in the right corner, you can see some, as well as down to the right towards the middle. That's all off one piece that was about 5" long when I got it. It would grow 6" a week at least.
