Duckweed MAY be the food of the future.

You can’t … Today, I am going to show you how you can make a great shrimp or fish food from Duckweed!! Would you eat POND WEED? As you would guess from its name, duckweed is a favorite snack of ducks, as well as geese and some other birds. Duckweed floats on ponds and is known as ‘water lentils’ in France You can follow the following preventive measure to get rid of duckweed naturally. Too many fish in the pond and they will eat all the duckweed and need additional food again. Give your fish the exact amount of food that can eat. But Green Onyx thinks it has real potential: fast-growing, with a spectacular nutritive makeup, it has a mild green flavor, somewhere in the neighborhood of spinach, and could conceivably be used in any number of applications. Duckweed to Feed Tilapia in Aquaponics – The Food of the Future – by Colle and Phyllis Davis. Yes, I know it sounds absurd but this stuff is actually really really good shrimp food- it’s roughly between 20 and 40 percent protein, it’s full of goodness, it’s free and I know a lot of you guys will consider this like the aquarium [herpes] of the fish tank world but trust me it’s not. Grown under ideal conditions, duckweed ranges between 25% and 45% protein and doubles its growth every 36 hours, and OUR TILAPIA love to eat … I also have plenty of turtles that if they eat it, it never seems to make a difference. It has been a pain in my pond for over 20 years. It multiplies as much as six time per day in mid-summer. Well, depending on who you talk to (and presumably depending on the species of duckweed, since there are several), duckweed is 30 to 50% protein.

Wow! I’ve read that duckweed can make up to 40% of a chicken’s diet, with 25% being more optimal — that means we’ll be paying 25 to 40% less for chicken feed once we get our duckweed operation up and running. Duckweed can make up a major part of duck's diet where it is available, but ducks rarely eat enough to control the growth rate of the duckweed plant or … I have so much Duckweed I can’t see straight!

If you see duckweed in a pond, notice how the pond is almost completely without any shade and receiving plenty of sunlight.

The only problem is that it is difficult to strike a balance between the koi population and the duckweed. If you can't put duckweed near a window that receives 10 hours of sunlight, you can also use fluorescent light bulbs to help them grow. These fish love duckweed so much that you actually reduce the amount you feed koi in a pond if an ample supply of duckweed is present.

Protein-rich powder made from duckweed could help feed the world. Like many plants, duckweed will thrive in direct sunlight. Excess food increases the amount of nutrition in water which triggers the growth of duckweed. Invasive is an understatement! Duckweed is not grown commercially in any real sense, though it is sometimes harvested and eaten in Southeast Asia (it’s usually cooked into omelettes or soup).