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Standing Order for Live Daphnia &/or Duckweed Fish Food
Did you know that Duckweed and Azolla can help to control climate change?
How? See below for details.
Scientists are optimistic because duckweed would absorb about the same amount of carbon as they emit when burned lending to a possible fuel source.
“If we could harvest vast quantities of fast-growing duckweed and dispose of them Azolla-style, we could take their carbon out of the environment entirely”, said Dr. Martienssen, one of the scientists studying this. “Enhanced duckweed could offer an even more effective, longer-lasting way to sequester carbon.”
Do your part.
Duckweed is a small perennial plant with simple bodies. Among the floating plants, duckweed is one of the better live plants for your goldfish or koi. It acts as a tonic for the fish and a cover for aquatic animal life.
Price is per portion. A portion is about 3/4 cup plant including water.
Save on a standing order for daphnia, duckweed, or both. These include live fish food delivered weekly or every other week (bi-weekly). Your credit card will be charged only when the order is shipped.
The minimum order is at least 3 shipments to be considered a standing order. The first shipment starts when you place your order and continues until October, or for the number of weeks that you enter, or we run out of supply (you will be notified). The price is how much you’ll be charged per shipment. Shipping and handling will be added for each shipment. You can cancel at any time after the first 3 shipments.
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Size: Leaves: 1/8" or less.
Prohibited In: Puerto Rico (PR)
Description
Duckweed is one of the fastest-growing plants that captures carbon dioxide (CO2) and changes it into something else. The plant will die off trapping the CO2 as other molecules.
This can be compared with the Azolla Event during the Eocene era (49 million years ago) where the small aquatic fern, Azolla, took control of Earth’s climate. The fern grew unchecked, absorbed carbon from the atmosphere, and died to the ocean floor taking the carbon with it. After the Azolla Event, the Arctic temperature dropped almost 40°F as the planet entered cyclic ice ages.
| Prohibited In |
Puerto Rico (PR) |
|---|---|
| Benefits |
Use as spring and fall fish food. Duckweed can be refrigerated up to 2 years. They feed on algae and are known to reduce algae in the water garden pool. Fish are very fond of Daphnia, they have a jerking motion that attracts the fish to consume them rapidly. |
| Appearance |
Duckweed: The "smallest flowering plant on Earth", this has floating small round ovate light green leaves or fronds, having one rootlet attached to each frond. |
| Size |
Leaves: 1/8" or less. |
| Preferred Growing Conditions |
2+ hrs/day direct sunlight. |
| Botanical Name |
Lemna minor |
The table below shows the estimated shipping and pick-up weeks for destinations to USA states. These dates can change depending on weather and how strong the plants are at that time.
For example, a wet spring will have many clouds leading to less sunshine. Thus, the plants may need a bit longer to grow strong enough for transplanting and transit. With the planet heating up, a warm spring may help the plants grow strong enough to ship before the dates in this table.
| Week | States |
|---|---|
| End of April: | FL, LA, TX |
| First Week of May: | AL, AZ, GA, MS, NM, OK |
| Second Week of May: | AR, CA, NV, NC, SC, TN |
| Third Week of May: | CO, KS, KY, MO, UT, VA, WV |
| Fourth Week of May: | AK, CT, DE, DC, ID, IL, IN, IA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MN, MT, NE, NH, NJ, NY, ND, OH, OR, PA, RI, SD, VT, WA, WI, WY |
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