1000 Live Duckweed Plants LEMNA Minor

Okay, so these plants first off are WONDERFUL! When you first open them they smell horrible-but once you put them in the tank the smell disappears. A lot of the plants arrived “dead” or brown and I just popped them in the tank with the others and they revived. Almost all of them had no roots when they arrived either and they grew on.One downside though is that a lot of debris comes with the plants-mostly detached roots that do make a mess on your filter but other then that I love these plants!

I was hopeful... but greatly disappointed. At least the plants were not shipped in a plastic bag, but a specimen jar, so that was good. Out of 1000+ plants, NONE were green. Notta. All brown.And, there is nothing in the Amazon description that states they cannot be placed in an outdoor pond. That is why I purchased them in the first place. The instructions that arrived with these dead plants states that they will have a putrid sewage smell with some explanation as to why. It also says that some will not be green and that is normal... well, mine stayed brown for about 5 days, and I discarded them all.I quarantined them, as stated in the instructions. I would have NEVER tossed them into my pond or aquarium. I love my fish too much for that. It also states that duckweed is very hard to kill. Well, I guess that if you place them in a covered container and ship them to other states, that is one way to kill them.No SUN???.... so if you have a pond that has direct sun,that is the second way to kill duckweed. So, feel free to toss these in your shady swamp and enjoy!!I would have rather taken my $7 and purchased a BK Whopper.The sellers should explain exactly what these are, and how they are to be grown. Not after receiving the product, but before, like in the Amazon description. Shame on them.No direct sunlight??? No where in the description does it say for indoor growing only. But on the packing slip, that is exactly what it states.Go somewhere else and purchase quality plants.As you can tell, I am not happy at all with this seller or the plants that they bagged from their backyard swamp and are selling on Amazon.I thought at least I could get a runaway snail in the batch, but that didn't happen either.

First off, my duckweed arrived in a bottle, like a medical bottle. I received so much more than 1000! Sadly most of it died which is my fault, not the sellers, I'll explain. I had asked a friend to pick up my mail the day it arrived because I was at work. The friend bailed on me, had better things to do and the duckweed sat in a metal parcel locker in the sun four 3+ hours in 90+ degrees which in the metal parcel locker was probably 100+ degrees. It was pretty much white from being cooked. I did separate all the green ones from the center I could find and waiting to see if they recover. Next time I will be ordering in cooler weather and yes I will order from this seller again, even though the duckweed was mostly gone I could see it was heat damage and not a bad batch. The roots are long and I could see how healthy they all where! Ok now it smells extremely bad. Even when it's a good batch it's gonna smell like death warmed over, this is stagnant pond water it's in. So be prepared for that and maybe open outside. To help the smell, just put it in maybe a different container and use dechlorinated water and swap out some of the water and the smell will reduce. It's gonna be going through a bit of transfer shock so give it some time to quarantine and recover before throwing it in your tank or pond.

I mostly got roots and dead leaves, I understand duckweed can grow from just the roots and what little green leaves there are, but my tank now looks like there is dog hair floating all through it and not much surface coverage. Also, snail transfer!! I got 1 or 2 invasive ramshorns with this batch. Luckily this is my shrimp tank so no big deal... but if this would have been my betta tank I would have been extremely mad! Definitely quarantine the plants before putting them in your tank if you don't want these little buggers. I'm hoping these roots create some new leaves soon or this would have been a major waist of money and I really hope my giant duckweed isn't the same way... it'll be delivered today so, we'll see.

Please believe the other reviewers when they talk about the smell. I definitely forgot about that and opened the container in my kitchen. Smelled worse than fart spray. The product shipped quick and there was alot of duckweed. I filled a large bowl with water then poured the duckweed into it. The plan was to let it sit like that for a night to get the snails to separate. There were soo many snails, I ended up just pouring everything out in the back corner of my yard. I was afraid that I wouldn't get rid of all the snails and the possibility of eggs being attached to the vegetation. Didn't want to risk them taking cover my planted community tank.

Ever wanted your house to smell like a sewer exploded in it? This is the answer to that prayer! That sweet pungent smell of rotten dung, rushing to fill every corner of your home, the instant need to vomit for all, no one better could have pulled that off! Never in my life have I ever vomited from the smell of something but this did it for me! And the kids, and the dogs! Upon immediately exiting the house to release that pungent scent in to the world the Flys will swarm to you and your neighbors will flee!If this doesn't get you pulling your wallet out then how about the added bonus of burns on your very own flesh from the water??? That's right fokes! Blisters to appear like magic with a simple touch! And if you had hopes to never wash the smell away then I have great news for you! No amount of wash your hands or body will remove this short of epicly vile smell away!In short people the smell to kill you, the water to finish the job, and the knowledge no one will ever lose your scent!!!

Looks ok, smaller than I want but ok