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borderreef
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I just bought a bunch. The vendor said a "basic" rule of thumb is that if you can feel the heat on the back of your hand when you touch the top of the leaves, the lights are too close. since this is my first time with mangroves, I'm using their advise as a start. I'm also going wih the bamboo technique to get a really nice root system to form
pantherguy30
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More for aesthetics than doing anything but I threw a few in my overflow and they were happy for a couple years until I moved and broke the system down.
Death of a Mangrove
Death of a Mangrove
At what point, is it safe to say a mangrove is dead?
I've recently moved from a 90g to a 190g. In the process I moved my Mangroves from the refugium into the display. I planted each plant in a critter cage with Miracle Mud. Then, strategically covered the acrlyic boxes with liverock. Thus far, only one plant (out of 4) has dropped all of its leaves. Unfortunately, this was a larger plant too (about 20 leaves off of 4 stems and about 30'' tall).
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Death of a Mangrove
At what point, is it safe to say a mangrove is dead?
I've recently moved from a 90g to a 190g. In the process I moved my Mangroves from the refugium into the display. I planted each plant in a critter cage with Miracle Mud. Then, strategically covered the acrlyic boxes with liverock. Thus far, only one plant (out of 4) has dropped all of its leaves. Unfortunately, this was a larger plant too (about 20 leaves off of 4 stems and about 30'' tall).
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NanoJosh
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I think the need to be a Lil higher out of the water I had the same problem with mine and I raised em in the water level and it doin better no more leave dropping. Maybe place the root structure above ur rock and let it grow down, would make for a really cool biotope.
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shaggss
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One of the best I have seen is The Volcano Tank.
Here is mine, installed now there are three weeks, receiving water from the overflow box of the principal reef aquarium, and going out to the next level by gravity: my old caulerpa refugium.
The caulerpa refugium is lighted with a 11W 10000K led lumivie & mangrove refugium is lighted with a UFO 90W (150W but leds are powered @ a total of 90W) for plants.
Let's wait & see how it will grow... But who of you stopped his skimmer not to create a concurrent situation with the mangrove needs & caulerpa needs ?
EDIT: Forgot to say that there are 1/3 (one bottle, 3cm of deepth) of mineral mud, 2/3 of fine aragonite (6cm of deepth)
The caulerpa refugium is lighted with a 11W 10000K led lumivie & mangrove refugium is lighted with a UFO 90W (150W but leds are powered @ a total of 90W) for plants.
Let's wait & see how it will grow... But who of you stopped his skimmer not to create a concurrent situation with the mangrove needs & caulerpa needs ?
EDIT: Forgot to say that there are 1/3 (one bottle, 3cm of deepth) of mineral mud, 2/3 of fine aragonite (6cm of deepth)
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From this link: http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2004-12/ac/feature/index.php
Who was really concerned by:
I saw fiew posts here about people keeping mangroves from more than 3 years in some aquariums and no issue related to the quote above.... can we consider this as a rumor or not ? I read that one of you probes his sand based on a regular basis but no more other feedback....
Thx in advance for your feedback
Louis
Who was really concerned by:
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I saw fiew posts here about people keeping mangroves from more than 3 years in some aquariums and no issue related to the quote above.... can we consider this as a rumor or not ? I read that one of you probes his sand based on a regular basis but no more other feedback....
Thx in advance for your feedback
Louis
NanoJosh
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Found some old pictures of my last tank. I still have the mangrove as they are going in my new build but you can see them in the background the reds and the black mangroves with there pneumatophores
Was that a platform of rocks with sand on it for the mangroves or am I seeing something.
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saltwaterfishlover
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Raingroves
Raingroves
it started as a saltwater tank and mangrove pods to root them and add to my 120. but forgot about them and all I do is dump out rain water when it gets too full. probably about 20 local mangroves and 3 inches of sand and a koralia NANO 240 for circulation. light but good ole south florida sun. its about a year old
Raingroves
it started as a saltwater tank and mangrove pods to root them and add to my 120. but forgot about them and all I do is dump out rain water when it gets too full. probably about 20 local mangroves and 3 inches of sand and a koralia NANO 240 for circulation. light but good ole south florida sun. its about a year old
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it started as a saltwater tank and mangrove pods to root them and add to my 120. but forgot about them and all I do is dump out rain water when it gets too full. probably about 20 local mangroves and 3 inches of sand and a koralia NANO 240 for circulation. light but good ole south florida sun. its about a year old
Nice mangroves. Heck, Florida sunshine and since the mangroves can literally grow right out side doesn't hurt. Lol nice growth.
Green_Lionfish
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Do Mangroves use up your calcium level?
NanoJosh
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I wonder if u could plumb that to ur tank that's optimal growing conditions for the tree maybe ill look into that.
I don't think so and If they do it probably wouldn't be noticeable. Jmo maybe a marine biology student that did their thesis on mangroves will chime in lol.
55 gal mixed reef 10 gal SPS Dom.
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