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Duckweed
Lemna minor
Family: Araceae
📍 Worldwide
Duckweed is the smallest flowering plant and one of the fastest-growing aquatic plants available. It provides effective nutrient export and surface shade while serving as live food for herbivorous fish. It can quickly cover the entire surface if not managed.
Keeping this species
- co2
- Not required
- diet
- Water column nutrient uptake
- light
- Low to high
- tank size
- No minimum – floating
- growth rate
- Extremely fast
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Water it likes
- ph
- 5.0–8.0
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <60 ppm
- hardness
- 1–25 dGH
- temperature
- 50–86°F (10–30°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
59°F — 81°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Jul high)