Duckweed Disappearing! HELP

[busterrox]

Hi I recently introduced duckweed into my 10 gallon aquarium inside the aquarium I have:

-1 dwarf gournami
-1 neon tetra getting more
-2 lace catfish
- no snails or shrimp but I'm going to be getting some ghost shrimp

Over night my duckweed seems to be Disappearing

that square was half full know that's all that is left.


I am starting to see some entangled by my catfishes favorite spot to stay. Please help and if you see some solution please let me know


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[busterrox]

Any ideas



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[cFolks24]

All I can think (because of my experience with dwarf hg) is either it was ate.. Or some in the filter. I'm not sure though! That's the only possibilities I can think of

 

[fishman888888]

Yea my fish love eating duckweed.... its gone within 24 hrs everytime i add some

 

[Delapool]

I found it doesn't like high water flow and the fish were eating the roots, then the centre out of them. Grr, I had I hopes too since it's meant to be quick growing.

 

[mattcham]

I find that duckweed multiplies super fast with zero care when grown outdoors under direct sunlight. However I find them to be messy aquarium plants because they shed a lot of root-like filaments even when healthy (growing like wildfire).

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[icydeath]

It might be in your filter or was eaten. Thats all I can think of atm.
Sorry I couldn't be of much help!

 

[Khuligirl93]

Your gourami ate them most likely!
I have a 10g with duckweed also, and it grows so fast I have to net some out every week so it doesn't clog the filter. In that tank I only have nano fish like endlers and CPDs. But whenever I add some of the duckweed to my larger tank which has rainbows in it, it gets eaten within minutes.


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