Some of you may or may not recall my question how to slow down the growth of the Vallis.....Well any & all measure taken here lead me nowhere but even longer Vallis. That in combination with a outstanding amount of duckweed made me do something on my 55g this AM that truly went against every fiber of my being but I seen no other option any more since the lower half of my tank really received NO MORE light at all and my poor cory's been swimming loops in there trying to find ONE spot to go up & get air......
I pulled the leaves of the Vallis ranging around 4ft out of my tank and cut them all with a pair of scissors much like lawnmower action in the tank; all now cut at the water surface height.
Then I scooped out 3 larger nets full of duckweed.
While I know this was necessary and many of you had suggested the cutting action prior it still doesn't seem quite right doing this. But fish come before plants....and its sure as heck super bright in my dim 55g now :lol:
LOL, I know what you mean, my 55gal doesn't have duck weed, but sometimes the plants sneak up on me and the next thing I know my fish I majorly running out of swimming space:lol:.
AMEN! I can clean & cut and what not this week and before you know it 2-3 days from now its all grown back - I actually started ref to this very tank as the "Bermuda triangle" cause all work I do there vanishes into thin air every time :lol: I'd hate to have to leave that tank alone for some 2 weeks :shock: come back and my office is solid green goop :lol:
That stuff REALLY is a pest - You get one little bitty one in on a plant and within less then 1 week my whole top is covered in it with very little to no light coming through any more for the other plants. ;-)
Oh, so it's more of a pest than a nice floating plant? SA sent me a little Salvinia but it's to tiny I think my fish are eating some of it and it certainly doesn't grow like it seems duckweed does. There's probably less in the tank than when I first put it in. Any suggestions on a nice floating plant for me then? One that doesn't look like a weed ;-)
I recently got some salvania, but I've always avoided duckweed up to this point. Duckweed is many times smaller than salvania, which is why it is such a pest. That said it only took salvania about four weeks to go from a dozen plants to covering almost every inch of my 20H tank:lol:.
I had a huge water lettuce infestation at one point. I still have it in one tank where it doesn't seem to grow very fast but in other tanks I was clearing half the tank surface every couple of days. Nice looking plant, but it did keep my tanks rather dim.
Basically all my salvinia is gone. I'm not removing it with my pwc, so my fish must be loving it. I need to find something hardier I guess. I do like pennywort. I have some planted. I think I'll get some as a floating plant too (the planted one isn't big enough to cut yet).
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