Those tanks behind you and all the other tanks in the video are cool looking with the root runners down the back of the tank, this video gave me some pretty great ideas as I will be slowly turning my 55gal Angelfish/EBA tank into a planted tank, thanks for the ideas.

Do you have more tips for pothos after 3 years of this video was posted?

This is genius.

I love the red plant in your top tank. What is it please?

I like your pov 😊🌿🌱🪴🐠

Between vals and duckweed, they have gone crazy. Water quality is good. Kinda feel like I have tanks with plants, more than I have tanks with fish. Did get the plant hangers and have lucky bamboo and pothos in them now. Your channel is great. Guppy grass is an ass pain, too.

How many hours do you keep your lights on the plants for your indoor aquariums? Started mine for 4 hours using 50watts growlight, will that be enough?

Duckweed is, along with scuds, one of the many and wrongly blamed guests in our tank. If a plant doubles its volume over a week or so, it can do so only by "sucking in" an almost equivalent amount of ammonia. I use duckweed in over stocked tanks and whenever I see that some extra filtration is needed. Duckweed just does it. And, you can remove it, dry it and grind it in powder and feed it to your fish: fish and shrimps will love it.

Thank you so very much for giving that in-depth detail about frog bit. I have a beta fish that I absolutely love and adore and I just want him happy and this is one of the plants that I like to share with him. God bless.

Love the impressions man and I agree! I struggle to grow most stem plants and I was very surprised I can actually grow anubias nana petite pinto of all plants! Even Java fern and to some degree Java moss can struggle but man anubias in general is ok with me water

Have you tried Cattails? I’ve heard they remove more heavy metals and toxins than other plants.

Thanks so much for this very interesting and important content. Much appreciated!

Nice challenge of one’s perspective. Thank you very much and happy holidays.

You are simpy a genius!!!

Beautiful setups!!!! ❤ Do you have a video on that beautiful low light hydrophonic aquarium with roots and fish??

I just use a black plastic twist tie kinked to hang on back. Simple and you can't even see them.

Duckweed was the last thing I introduced to my heavily planted aquarium. It basically took over and killed most of the plants underneath and the soil/sand turned into a mouldy mess. Got rip of the messy duckweed and things have come back.

I remember when I wanted floating plants so bad. Lol. I have duckweed in bunches now.❤

Duckweed is more of annoying than useless. they are far from useless. As already been said in this video, there are many benefits to duckweed. however, unless you have something specific in mind say grow out tank, duckweed farm tank, black water biotopes etc, might as well avoid duckweed altogether. Use their bigger cousins instead such as red root floaters, salvinia etc for easy removal to control its population so as to not to cover the entire top of the aquarium.

Java Fern Wendilov can also be fully submerged ☝️ The roots

Very nice! It is easy to jump on the next hate bandwagon. Understanding the big picture can make the hobby so much more enjoyable. Yes, it does take time, including experiences with successes and fails. Thanks for putting this out there, so new people coming into the hobby can see that it doesn't have to be a my-way-or-the-highway plant.

Thats a great idea. Looks awesome

I have 4 tanks and duckweed is helpful in some while a problem in others. I use frogbit, red root floaters, salvinia and duckweed. My 29-gallon and 55-gallon have a combo of floating plants, but I've been trying to eliminate duckweed as they both have female bettas that need me to make a gap so they can find the floating food they get. I also have dwarf frogs in the 29 that need a clear path to the surface for air. My 75-gallon is for goldfish and it's a great alternative food source and nutrient filter as I cut back on food trying to starve out some black algae on anubis and pothos roots. Finally, I am using it to replace other floaters in my 5-gallon shrimp tank as it sits on the surface unlike some other floaters that extend up and lay flat against it's lid, forcing me to otherwise lower the water level in an already small tank. While sometimes a burden, duckweed is often the right tool for the job in some tanks.

I just trim the val and try to do the cuts at a angle. I put 6 of them in a 75 with deep small gravel substrate with a custom undergravel filter and it spread over the entire bottom in about 8 months:-)

Never had a problem getting rid of duckweed if I don't want it in a tank. How dumb are you if you can't take a few plants out of your tank? Just takes a small bit of effort over a few days to get it all.

You go so far as to mock people's psychology but conveniently leave out the main reason why duckweed is so hated. Namely that it sticks to everything and makes aquarium maintenance a nightmare. You are a duckweed.

I love floaters but fuckweed is too damned much. Duckweed didn't do much, if anything, about my algae problems, but a Siamese algae eater does. I actively grow algae now just to keep my algae eaters fed. 😅

lol those impressions were pretty great! I love duckweed most of the time.

I have a 29 gallon blackwater tank with 3 albino weather loaches and 6 yoyo loaches and blue shrimp. Its's heavily planted with hornwort, java moss, bamboo and monstera. lots of driftwood and seiryu stone. Duckweed was tracked it when I added fish, but its a happy tank. I don't feed it much( maybe shrimp pellets once or twice a week) There were snails, but the loaches took care of most of them. No filter but 2 airstones which push the duckweed into the hornwort. I'm not a fan of duckweed, but why hate it, my fish and shrimp seem content.

I love your point of view. Thanks.

precisely. What I've been observing in ADA creators tank, they always have two plants mixed complimenting each other to imitate natural growth. In fact some of the tank looks like an unkept aquarium with too many plants that resembles a jungle with WEED in it. same philosophy can occur with duckweed and other floating plants in nature's pond. It's just ridiculous how tiny little plants like duckweed is hated. Same with pearlweed, riccia, and many other unwanted plant people consider a weed. 😂

When it gets in the flow of my filters and blows through the tank, gets stuck, and dies I am annoyed, but it’s a great indicator (and consumer) of nitrates. Regardless, I have it in all 9 of my tanks and it won’t grow in 3 of them 🤷🏻‍♀️. I can’t grow Amazon sword either.

Those impressions are spot on! We can take success for granted and our blessings go way underappreciated. I have noticed this in recent years and I make an effort to try and not be that way. The better I'm getting at it the way, way more happier I've been! I grew huge amazon sword mother plants with just sand as the substrate, happy goldfish emissions as the fertilizer and Home Depot T8 shop lights. It only made me love that plant more and now that I'm back in the hobby I'll be getting one again. I also grew duckweed and I never want to deal with that again. But, I do appreciate its wonderful uses it does have its place in this hobby.

Those impressions were hilarious XD This is seriously one of my favorite youtube channels. Knocked it out of the park once again. Thanks :)

I've had every beginner plant die in my tanks except crypts and duckweed. Even guppy grass barely survived for months. Duckweed has a place in tanks when plants don't thrive. I'm now heavily dosing all in one fertilizer and having some success, not much, but guppy grass is finally growing, so it's a start.

Really great and fun video 👍👍😂😂😂😂😂 Duckweed is my best friend. Always put duckweed in a new tank so I don't have to worry about ammonia or nitrite 🙂 Easy to remove, just pick it up with a net, repeat for a couple of days (a week) and it's gone 🙂

Hi. Great video. Will the plants you mentioned grow well in an aquarium run on harder tap water?

The main problem is sometimes you add duckweed by mistake on a different tank, and then duckweed takes the control. And it's way too hard to remove it all after that.

Love the video. Great impersonations

Unrelated but I have a peace lily with very dense roots but quite a few of them are infested with BBA. do you think I should cut them off or just try the peroxide method?

Duckweed is fantastic for a brand new dirted tank. They suck up all the excess nutrients. I think one reason duckweed is so hated is that it will stick to your hands and is so easy to spread to other tanks. Like Malaysian trumpet snails. lol I got the duckweed out of one of my tanks by using a small measuring cup. I just scooped it up every few days, until it was gone. I wish that worked with mts!

Florida flagfish love to eat duckweed and will clear it out of an aquarium

Yeah, Duckweed is very useful as already mentioned in the video and comments. It's not evil or hard to control. It may have a sense of humour - until you dry it out for use as food