duckweed
 

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How does it propegate? would it be a good plant filter for a sump style
filter? Or would it be hard to keep out of the main tank? I would think
simple mechanical filtration would be able to keep it in place.

I'm clueless as to using them in a sump since I have freshwater fish only.
They should do well anywhere there's enough light and nutrients.

Unrelated question... does anyone ever light their tanks from the side?
Does the glass make a significant effect on the amount of light that
passes through? I ask because I have an all plant aquarium for growing
out plants on a shelf that hardly has enough room for the hood. It
would be so much easier to put the light fixture behind the tank for
easy access to the surface.

All the plants would look horrible because they'd all be leaning towards the
lights.
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"Daniel Morrow" wrote in message
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I had the light closer to the plant this way because normally the
light has to be at least a foot above the water surface so the popping
bubbles don't get onto the bulb too much because if it does the
fluorescent
screw in bulb will die. But I stopped keeping the light coming in from the
side after a certain point because some hair algae started growing on the
glass that had the light real close to it. Good luck and later!
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I use the screw-in fluorescent bulbs in my tanks (except the 55s) and the
only one that died was the one I dropped in the water. Well, I dropped the
hood it was screwed into in the water. Bummer,... the bulb was only a few
weeks old.
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Aquariums since 1952
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"Richard Sexton" wrote in message
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If the duckweek gets to be to bothersome, why cant I just net it all
out?
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You can! It's easy to remove.

Not if you have a lot of tanks. I've almost got rid of it, andhave been
trying
for about a year. One lousy piece is all it takes. I've throw away pounds
of
that crap.
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That may be true with a lot of tanks but I just skim it off the surface with
a net and feed it to the koi and goldfish. They consider it the best salad
they ever had. :-) If you want to get rid of it for good keep one
goldfish around and move it from tank to tank.
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Aquariums since 1952
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If the conditions are right, you better believe it! I have my way, Now I have to give up its net filling every 3 or 4 days. I like to grow up Plants, but they are quickly becoming a pest. This will be robbed of light from the bottom of the plants and can cause major accidents PH value and suffocation Your fish, if you inject carbon dioxide and you do not stay on top of that good stuff Enough, let it take over the surface. I know it too hard.