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- - Mangrove Trees (http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=38647)

super7

01-16-2008 06:16 PM

i have more than a few extra quarantine tanks and holding tanks around the house in which I could get them used to y salinity.

christyf5

01-16-2008 06:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skylord (Post 294613)

After seeing your space allotment I had to go measure mine. From the bottom of the tank to the top of the light, mine is 29 inches. My trees are in need of a trim but the most I could cut is about 6 inches and they wouldn't look good if I did that. My light is only about two inch's thick so I'm not wasting any space there. I could have made the root system (aerial roots)a little shorter but thats what makes the trees look nice and realistic. So in a sump where they aren't for show I could have reduced the roots about 4 inch's. My trees are just over 2 yrs old and they are 2 feet tall and have to be trimmed about every 3 months.

Also if they are going straight into the sump you have to be concerned with salinity shock.

Scott

Photos please?? http://www.mommiescamelot.com/forum/...ettyplease.gif

skylord

01-16-2008 11:50 PM

Ok...just for Christy. I have been moving everything and was getting ready to move this to my fish room. The water is down a little and the tank needs a cleaning. I have had Clown Gobi's in this tank with the trees and I use it to grow macro algae.

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/DSC_0144.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...DSC_0141-1.jpg

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/DSC_0142.jpg

Here is the root system....more impressive in person. As I said these trees are about 2 yrs old but my wife says they are only 18 months....I would believe her...lol

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/DSC_0143.jpg

And I had to slip a pic of my Southern Blue Devilfish in.

http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...s/DSC_0132.jpg

Scott

christyf5

01-16-2008 11:59 PM

Awesome Scott!! I love seeing that. Mangroves are soo cool but I don't have the space. One day though, one day.... :razz:

Thanks for posting the pics :biggrin:

super7

01-17-2008 03:22 AM

that southern blue devilfish is awseome, it reminds me of the cichlids I used to breed.
Thanks for the pics and all the info, I really apreciate it.
Super7

Snappy

01-17-2008 04:22 AM

I just threw mine out after growing for a years and then went on the decline.

Delphinus

01-17-2008 05:40 AM

I started off with like a dozen pods about 5 years ago. They did OK for a few years, but ridiculously slow (nowhere near the kind of growth that Skylord has seen - think stick with a couple leafs). After moving them into the new house, I lost a swack of them. The rest never flourished and declined slowly. I moved them into a 8gal salt bucket full of aragonite sand thinking that giving them room to grow the roots would be good - but instead they just died. Too bad, they're a neat thing, but I don't really have the patience to try them again.

Skylord did yours start off as pods? (Apologies if you've answered this already and I just missed the info)

skylord

01-17-2008 07:18 AM

Yes....we started with pods. One thing you cant see in the pics is the soil. They are in the cheaper miracle mud with sand covering the soil. It took 2 months before these trees went into the tank. Acclimating them real slow, I believe, is real important to success. Any fast changes will damage, stunt or kill these trees.

Scott

Pescador

01-17-2008 08:25 AM

Mine are pretty much the same size and age as skylord's (2yrs and 24") but not quite as bushy.
They are in mud as well under 150de 6500k.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y12...mangroves1.jpg

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