It's duckweed, not frogbit!

[angelcraze2]

I thought all this time I had a red leaf variety of frogbit, I just found out it is indeed giant duckweed hahaha.

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The underside of the leaves turn this reddish purple color in higher light, and the top of the leaves as well in even higher light.

Anyway, I have tried to make fish food out of it because I always had so much of it and figured it was high in nutrition. It didn't work yet, but I know I can make it work eventually.

I thought this was interesting to read. Turns out it is high in protein and calcium.
https://www.mobot.org/jwcross/duckweed/nutritional-composition.htm

[Nautilus291]

How did you find out it was duck weed? Do you use it to block some light for lower light plants near the bottom?

[angelcraze2]

Somebody told me lol. So I looked it up. I doubt it was some special frogbit all these years lol! Apparently frogbit is larger. I don't use it to block light, but to soak up excess nutrients, plus, I like the look of them. It's GIANT duckweed, not that regular PITA stuff. It's very prolific, but easier to eradicate if needed.

[Boundava]

Its alot nicer than the PITA stuff. Heck of a lot nicer.

[RiversGirl]

I like the looks of it, too! It's very pretty with the roots dangling.

[bpete]

I do like the looks of the dangling roots,

[angelcraze2]

And here I replaced it with water lettuce in my 120g because the roots are longer on the lettuce. I keep the GIANT dukweed in smaller tanks though. Idk, I might go back to giant duckweed....

Which one do you think would remove more nitrate?