Snail eating duckweed

[smm333]

I know a lot of people despise duckweed, but I like it. I admit it can get out of control, but I have a large turtle who is thrilled when I give him the excess to snack on. I have a lot in my African dwarf frog tank. The tank has 5 frogs, 2 mystery snails and a bunch of ramshorn and pond snails. I have noticed the mystery snails eating the duckweed as well! So, if you are frustrated by duckweed in your tank, there may be someone in there who really loves it as a free and plentiful snack, lol! 

[Root]

So true. I can remember watching my mystery snail eat the very last bit of duckweed in my aquarium. I was so shocked and it has been months and none has popped back up.

[TheSwissAquarist]

You’ll be surprised, but my Assassin snails have been at it as well:

[Katherine]

Bladder snails will eat it too, at least the roots. I had some duckweed in my 75 ahead of any livestock when I was setting it up and the roots got significantly longer than I'd ever seen before. I moved everybody over and they went back to staying short fairly quickly.

[Chick-In-Of-TheSea]

I was not able to get duckweed to take off w/ mystery snails in the tank.  They'd use the duckweed as parachutes to get to the bottom of the tank.

[Guppysnail]

I had a beautiful thick layer of duckweed in my Badis badis tank. They don’t like direct light. I put mystery snails in and now I have a loose handful left. One girl sat at the top of my spider wood for weeks with her face duckweed level eating.