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Duckweed predator




	Date:	Tue, 09 Nov 1999 21:13:21 -0500
	From:	krandall at world_std.com
	Subject:	Duckweed predator

		>Try an environmentally freindly way of exterminating
duckweed: put a small
		>Giant Gouramy (Osphronemus gouramy) in your tank. They
eat the stuff. In
		>Indonesia duckweed is actually collected by some people
who raise giant
		>gouramy for food


		How about goldfish.  They LOVE it.  I have a small pond
with 4 goldfish.  I put all the duckweed I can in the pond and it is
going in a couple of days.  I have read that some koi keeper grow
duckweed for them.