how many and how much light for mangroves?

[Philip]

I'd like to order some mangroves from ebay. I have a 55g tank with 29g sump, how many should I order?
how much light do these guys need? is a 20w NO enough?

 

[Brimarbio]

This page has some good info for ya
http://www.twolittlefishies.com/tlf_prod_plants.html
best of luck to ya,
Brian

 

[Sid]

i think that it is about 1 mangrove per 10 gallons of water, for lighting most use about 40 watts NO, i however have a small tank (refuge) in the windowsill that gets a lot of light during the day and the mangroves are Flourishing.

 

[Brimarbio]

That's same as what I've heard too, although I'm not too sure that they're good at taking up excess neutrients... I have mine near a window as well, but I would not think the lighting you mentioned is enough. JMHO
Brian

 

[Sid]

well i bought one and put it in and ever since no cyno alge, no phosphates either.
still 20ppm nitrate though so i have got another 15 of them, that nitrate is gowing down nicely.
now i am hell bent on getting rid of the green tinge that the rocks have on them.
i do have to turn my mangroves around every so offen though as they tend to grow towards the light.

i did have a link to a site that had results fron a test someone had done to document the nutrient uptake of mangroves, it doesnt seem to work though, here it is if it starts working in the near future.
http://www.athiel.com/www.athiel.com/lib10/mangrove7.rtf

 

[SurferStevo]

Those excess letters will get you everytime. After some tweaking of your link - I got it to work. http://www.athiel.com/lib10/mangrove7.rtf

 

[Sid]

thank you