Got around to some messy work today- The black mangroves where planted in a milk jug for about 6 months as a temporary hold till I get everything ready. The tank plan is to have one island where all the mangrove/plants/coral will grow and the rest open water. I finally got this down and I used two 6" PCV pipe pieces. The top piece is a cap flip over and filled my clay/sand/mud loam for the black mangroves. The bottom piece is hollow(for now) and will house the 3 maxi-jet powerheads and heater(more on this down the road). It will also be covered in expanding foam,rock, and epoxy to look like one chuck of rock. This way no equipment will be seen in the tank as many marine tank there are powerheads all over. I also worked on the black mangrove and used some bonsai techniques on them.
Mmmm tasty
Bonsai is a huge passion of mine as well so I figured I'd just combine the two! little risky but I went for it.These black mangrove I bonded the exposed wood together to make one. In time the part where the bark was chewed off with regrow and fuse together making one tree.
The next one was about 30" tall so I cut it down to 20" at the first pair of new growth and wired it to look like it growing right above the water surface. Again it will need to grow a lot before it will look good.You can also see the two pvc pieces in the shot
