My mangrove shots.. there are 3 different locations using black and red mangroves. I will be getting my white mangroves this week! I waited 4 years for them!
first picture shows what I placed them in while they woke from dormancy after being shipped. Simple mud and aragnite substrate and moist not wet, once the upper substarte started to dry I knew they were "awake" and lowered the bin into a rubbermaid tote/sump
in the other pictured setup I took a 40g breeder drilled and plumbed it into my 33 reef and used a small glass pictank propped up on pvc and covered by live rock to hold mangroves in it.
there is also a 30gallon rubbermaid storage tote that has the 24" tall blacks that I found last year online that are still being acclimated to a brackish level. when it comes to mangroves I am the man in my group of friends, I set them up in evewryones tank I make and modify acrlic viewers for the people who want to try them. I noticed in some of the other shots that they are way to many propagules in a single container. They will strangle their siblings to death in that small of an area. not to mention potentially block their light.