Possible Divorce Frag Build

Current State:

In process of tearing down all tanks and putting things in tanks in the house.

One tank down and one to go.

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Nozzles will be here friday, along with a 2' manifold that is 1" pipe to mount them in.

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Why not get the sprayer/misting nozzles that hook up into irrigation tubing?

Cause I was trying to be a, well you know what. My heritage says "Cheap", "Thrifty", etc is the way to be. So you know lol.

 

[Lost in the Sauce]

Cause I was trying to be a, well you know what. My heritage says "Cheap", "Thrifty", etc is the way to be. So you know lol.

Haha!!

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Nozzles will be here friday, along with a 2' manifold that is 1" pipe to mount them in.

Order may get canceled.

Looking more into this, not sure I will be able to get the nozzles to work correctly, unless I have 30 psi or more. Cant do that without a booster pump or something. Not wanting to spend that much on a misting setup. Sucks I cannot use tap lol. Well I could, but who knows how that will work lol. So a big no there.

Gonna try to play with some PVC and drilling holes. May be able to make a rain tube, so to speak. Make it to where enough drops hit the plants and have small localized splashes on the leaves to keep them salt free.

Worst case, I do what I do every morning when I walk out here for work and take 1 minute to spray them lol.

 

[sfin52]

Order may get canceled.

Looking more into this, not sure I will be able to get the nozzles to work correctly, unless I have 30 psi or more. Cant do that without a booster pump or something. Not wanting to spend that much on a misting setup. Sucks I cannot use tap lol. Well I could, but who knows how that will work lol. So a big no there.

Gonna try to play with some PVC and drilling holes. May be able to make a rain tube, so to speak. Make it to where enough drops hit the plants and have small localized splashes on the leaves to keep them salt free.

Worst case, I do what I do every morning when I walk out here for work and take 1 minute to spray them lol.

But thats such a hassle. Have you looked into reptile misters.

Zoo Med RepitRain Automatic Terrarium Misting System

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@Casket_Case any ideas

 

[sfin52]

 

[danieyella]

But thats such a hassle. Have you looked into reptile misters.

Zoo Med RepitRain Automatic Terrarium Misting System

Buy Zoo Med RepitRain Automatic Terrarium Misting System at PetSmart

www.petsmart.com

@Casket_Case any ideas

I actually checked to see if I still had noveske's to mail over, super simple setup. Alas, looks like I rehomed it

 

[Eagle_Steve]

But thats such a hassle. Have you looked into reptile misters.

Zoo Med RepitRain Automatic Terrarium Misting System

Buy Zoo Med RepitRain Automatic Terrarium Misting System at PetSmart

www.petsmart.com

@Casket_Case any ideas

I have looked at those. My issue is I want to pull from my 30 gallon container for top off. I could use a mister, but looking more for a fine rain than a fine mist, if that makes sense. Also, not trying to refill a container every 2-3 days.

 

[sfin52]

I have looked at those. My issue is I want to pull from my 30 gallon container for top off. I could use a mister, but looking more for a fine rain than a fine mist, if that makes sense. Also, not trying to refill a container every 2-3 days.

I see the rain washes away a fine mist provides humidity.

 

[Eric R.]

Order may get canceled.

Looking more into this, not sure I will be able to get the nozzles to work correctly, unless I have 30 psi or more. Cant do that without a booster pump or something. Not wanting to spend that much on a misting setup. Sucks I cannot use tap lol. Well I could, but who knows how that will work lol. So a big no there.

Gonna try to play with some PVC and drilling holes. May be able to make a rain tube, so to speak. Make it to where enough drops hit the plants and have small localized splashes on the leaves to keep them salt free.

Worst case, I do what I do every morning when I walk out here for work and take 1 minute to spray them lol.

Beautiful system! I haven't read through the whole thread yet, but I came here following a pic of your tank in another thread I came across and wasn't disappointed.

Curious how much salt you're actually getting on the leaves between sprayings? I haven't moved my red mangroves into salt yet so none of this is first hand, but my understanding is that red mangroves exclude salt at their roots while black mangroves excrete salt at their leaves. So I figured your red mangroves shouldn't need salt cleaned from their leaves all that often?

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Beautiful system! I haven't read through the whole thread yet, but I came here following a pic of your tank in another thread I came across and wasn't disappointed.

Curious how much salt you're actually getting on the leaves between sprayings? I haven't moved my red mangroves into salt yet so none of this is first hand, but my understanding is that red mangroves exclude salt at their roots while black mangroves excrete salt at their leaves. So I figured your red mangroves shouldn't need salt cleaned from their leaves all that often?

Thanks a ton.

It is light dusting of salt every few days. Like very fine and can barely see powder. I figure that in nature they get rained on almost everyday, so may as well do it in my tank lol. I have about 20 or so growing now and I could tell the difference when misted and not for how they looked. I went on vacay for a week and the kids did not do it, just fed the tank. Came home and there was noticeable salt on the leaves (I tased it lol, yes I am weird). Not sure if it is from evap, snails climbing up there from time to time or they excrete it, but am going to either keep spraying or come up with something to do it for me lol.

 

[sfin52]

Thanks a ton.

It is light dusting of salt every few days. Like very fine and can barely see powder. I figure that in nature they get rained on almost everyday, so may as well do it in my tank lol. I have about 20 or so growing now and I could tell the difference when misted and not for how they looked. I went on vacay for a week and the kids did not do it, just fed the tank. Came home and there was noticeable salt on the leaves (I tased it lol, yes I am weird). Not sure if it is from evap, snails climbing up there from time to time or they excrete it, but am going to either keep spraying or come up with something to do it for me lol.

They excrete it. They will also loose leaves to deal with the salt. They will let it build up in a few leaves and than shed them. Just depends on the type of mangrove. Thats my understanding. Its thier survival mechanism in a salt environment.

 

[Eagle_Steve]

They excrete it. They will also loose leaves to deal with the salt. They will let it build up in a few leaves and than shed them. Just depends on the type of mangrove. Thats my understanding. Its thier survival mechanism in a salt environment.

Looking up red mangroves and the papers provided by the FWC about them, it appears theyu do reduce their salt consumption via the roots, but do not completely eliminate it. So it is then excreted via the leaves as a fine powder. While other mangroves, excrete a ton via their leaves and it can even form crystals on the leaves. It then went into why red mangroves do better during drier years. I stopped reading at that point lol.

 

[sfin52]

Looking up red mangroves and the papers provided by the FWC about them, it appears theyu do reduce their salt consumption via the roots, but do not completely eliminate it. So it is then excreted via the leaves as a fine powder. While other mangroves, excrete a ton via their leaves and it can even form crystals on the leaves. It then went into why red mangroves do better during drier years. I stopped reading at that point lol.

Stupid random facts I have gathered over the years. Never thought I would have to use use that little tip bit lol. It was on a discovery show I watched a few years ago.

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Stupid random facts I have gathered over the years. Never thought I would have to use use that little tip bit lol. It was on a discovery show I watched a few years ago.

I knew the others excreted saly heavily and sort of knew that red mangroves did it, but never paid attention. I just have always sprayed them for all the years I have had them. Going back to nature, just figuredIwould tryto replicate it.

I will say, even old craps like me learn new things, when we are open to learn them lol. Luckily I like to learn, so tend to read up on things I am not so sure about. In all these years of having tanks, growing up diving, still diving, I learn something new every day. Especially when it comes to our glass boxes. So many differnet variables and so many things that work for one, but not the other.

May be why I love this hobby so much.

 

[sfin52]

I knew the others excreted saly heavily and sort of knew that red mangroves did it, but never paid attention. I just have always sprayed them for all the years I have had them. Going back to nature, just figuredIwould tryto replicate it.

I will say, even old craps like me learn new things, when we are open to learn them lol. Luckily I like to learn, so tend to read up on things I am not so sure about. In all these years of having tanks, growing up diving, still diving, I learn something new every day. Especially when it comes to our glass boxes. So many differnet variables and so many things that work for one, but not the other.

May be why I love this hobby so much.

There's always something to learn on your thread. Just shows how much I don't know.

 

[Eagle_Steve]

There's always something to learn on your thread. Just shows how much I don't know.

I think between all of us Cronies combined, we make one good reefer lol.

 

[najer]

we make one good reefer lol.

:)

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Busted up a massive acro colony to prevent shading of some of my other acros. Threw them in the nem tank and the macro tank. Most of them are the pale undersides of the colony, but have started to regain color over the past few days.

Need to clean the macro bits that float around from the rusty angel making a mess off of them today, but funny how the ones in the macro tank grow like weeds with natural light hitting them at about 400 par lol.

And then some random pics of the weird warty that decided to live on a hermit, gorgs, etc.

 

[Eagle_Steve]

Just got to say, I love my Rusty angel. Best fish for keeping my Large Fern Caulerpa trimmed down. Still grows faster than it can eat it, but boy does he love it lol.