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Dying duckweed



>Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 22:04:54 +0000
>From: "Jan Fidrmuc" <fidrmuc at united_econ.uni-bonn.de>
>Subject: Duckweed

>Strangely enogh, duckweed never survived for long in any of my tanks.
>Goldfish or not, it didn't even survive in a plant-only tank. Other
>plants do fine, but duckweed just disappears. Must be a very delicate
>plant.

Jan... well, "delicate" is certainly not a name I have heard it called
before! :) If you fling it in a ditch here, it grows. I presume that your
tank has no nutrients for it to use. Can anyone else think of a reason why
duckweed would NOT live.

Olga
in Vancouver