hello all,
So I have taken my interest in a fuge to the next level.
(the reasearch)
I have come to the point where I have decided to grow mangroves in this fuge. I had first thought of just growing them in my overflow box's how neat would that be... To have a 2-3 foot tree standing up out of the tank on each rear corner? My overflow box's measure 9"x12" and there's one in each rear corner.
So I have been doing a lot of reading on mangroves. I have learned that they do grow quite big in time. But you can maintain them to stay small.
1.) by clipping the leafs (as long as you allways leave one leaf)
2.) by triming the roots.
1.) This has caused concern. If I up-root them to trim the roots, will this release the toxins that are normally found in a D.S.B.?
2.) when I suspend the seeds (1/2 in the water1/2 out)
does it matter how far the roots are from the bottom of the fuge? My water would be about 20" deep and I plan to float them with the styro-foam method, this would put the root buds aprox. 14" from the substrate.
I have decided to build an acrylic fuge, rather than use my overflow box's. If I build a 2'x2' cube I can put it in the corner between my D.T. and the wall. This would allow me to run from the overflow box on the D.T. directly to/through the fuge without a pump, saving elec. and waste heat. It would also allow it to be out in the open where it can be seen as a D.T. of its own. I'd put a small power head in the opposite end with a air stone in front of it. This should give me good cross current. Form there the water would go to the sump,
Where it will go through the filteration and back to the D.T.
I have read that in time the mangroves would allow me to totaly remove my skimmer? There has been alot of tests done on this theory.
1.) in a tank with 1 mangrove per 10 gal. of water they were able to take the skimmer out and cut the water changes by 50% in just 1 year.
Compared to the same exact set-up w/o the mangroves
2.) the oxegen and c.dioxide levels were twice as good also.
The list goes on and on.
As part of my research on this I would like to get experienced input as well. (thats where you come in)
I think this would be a neat thing to build while the winter cold bindes my to the house. I will keep this updated as I learn and go on over the course of the winter.
So any thoughts?
Lucky
So I have taken my interest in a fuge to the next level.
(the reasearch)
I have come to the point where I have decided to grow mangroves in this fuge. I had first thought of just growing them in my overflow box's how neat would that be... To have a 2-3 foot tree standing up out of the tank on each rear corner? My overflow box's measure 9"x12" and there's one in each rear corner.
So I have been doing a lot of reading on mangroves. I have learned that they do grow quite big in time. But you can maintain them to stay small.
1.) by clipping the leafs (as long as you allways leave one leaf)
2.) by triming the roots.
1.) This has caused concern. If I up-root them to trim the roots, will this release the toxins that are normally found in a D.S.B.?
2.) when I suspend the seeds (1/2 in the water1/2 out)
does it matter how far the roots are from the bottom of the fuge? My water would be about 20" deep and I plan to float them with the styro-foam method, this would put the root buds aprox. 14" from the substrate.
I have decided to build an acrylic fuge, rather than use my overflow box's. If I build a 2'x2' cube I can put it in the corner between my D.T. and the wall. This would allow me to run from the overflow box on the D.T. directly to/through the fuge without a pump, saving elec. and waste heat. It would also allow it to be out in the open where it can be seen as a D.T. of its own. I'd put a small power head in the opposite end with a air stone in front of it. This should give me good cross current. Form there the water would go to the sump,
Where it will go through the filteration and back to the D.T.
I have read that in time the mangroves would allow me to totaly remove my skimmer? There has been alot of tests done on this theory.
1.) in a tank with 1 mangrove per 10 gal. of water they were able to take the skimmer out and cut the water changes by 50% in just 1 year.
Compared to the same exact set-up w/o the mangroves
2.) the oxegen and c.dioxide levels were twice as good also.
The list goes on and on.
As part of my research on this I would like to get experienced input as well. (thats where you come in)
I think this would be a neat thing to build while the winter cold bindes my to the house. I will keep this updated as I learn and go on over the course of the winter.
So any thoughts?
Lucky
