duckweed

On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 22:49:00 -0800, "John H."
wrote:

..

I cant seem to get rid of this hair algae problem. I tried less light but it
still seems to hang on.
I recently added some more plants to consume more of the available nutirents
( left over food etc). I've read in this group that DW is great at getting
rid of algae. This algae problem all started when I took out this lilly pad
type plant. It must have been keeping the algae problem down. I wish I knew
what the name of it was, I'd buy another.
If the duckweek gets to be to bothersome, why cant I just net it all out?

Netting it out should work if you can get all of it. My tanks always
have plants with leaves on the surface, so without taking everything
out of the tank a little of the duckweed remains. Then it multiplies.

Taking some out from time to time will be essential if you want to
reduce the nutrient load, just letting the plants grow and die does
nothing. I also have hair algae, it is getting less and less as the
tanks age, mine were all recently set up again. I just grab it by the
handful and pull it out.