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The ultimate Mangrove thread!!
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BristleWormHater
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Here's my chip in for the mangrove thread
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Documenting Growing red mangroves, I might be insane
This will be were I document the growth of these mangroves until I move them to my tank, from then on it will be my build thread. Here are the links for part one and two of this saga: Part one, Part two So heres the crazy plan I have made. These mangroves were grown in freshwater so I will be...
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OrionN
Anemones
Aggressively pruned Black mangrove sump
CHSUB
2500 Club Member
Very healthy Black Mangrove. Imo and ime, Black Mangroves are more difficult to grow in saltwater aquariums. Red mangroves are more salt tolerant and generally grow better fully submerged. It will be interesting to see if your Red’s will catch the Black? Well done…Aggressively pruned Black mangrove sump
OrionN
Anemones
CHSUB
2500 Club Member
Looks great. Anything you do specifically for the mangrove: Including, maybe, testing magnesium or potassium, Dosing anything?
Just an update on my Black Mangrove. I drastically pruned my Mangrove about 6 weeks ago. I like it a lot better since it is a lot less rudy. Nice structure and healthy foliage at this time.
OrionN
Anemones
Nope. I almost never test for anything. I use Reefcrystal and change about 50 gal a month in a 420 gal system, so about 10%. Never test for anything other than salinity and temperature. I don't keep much SPS anymore. Just fish and anemones.
mikesreef83
Community Member
This little guy is taking off. I made the mistake of burying the roots in the dsb of my display refugium and lost quite a few mangroves that way. However, this one seems to be doing okay. I was thinking about lifting it up exposing some roots but I’m afraid to mess with it.
CHSUB
2500 Club Member
This I much preferred, imo and Ime, to placing the root not in substrate. I believe your mangrove died for other reasons and I would absolutely leave it alone.
OrionN
Anemones
You really don’t want to mess with the root. Differnet from Black mangrove, if Red mangrove root is damage in salt water it will die. Having experiences with both species, I think this has to do with the way each species get rid of salt from the plant. Black Mangroves pump salt out at the leaves while Red mangroves plants excluded absorption of salt at the root. Damage roof result in excessive salt and kill the plant.This little guy is taking off. I made the mistake of burying the roots in the dsb of my display refugium and lost quite a few mangroves that way. However, this one seems to be doing okay. I was thinking about lifting it up exposing some roots but I’m afraid to mess with it.
I think this have to do with the plant mechanism
Gregg @ ADP
Valuable Member
Mangrove update:
I always forget to post in this thread, but here’s an update on the mangroves in my classroom reef.
Where they started (1/10/24):
Where they are today:
Here’s a shot from under the canopy:
One thing that is noteworthy is that last spring, after the mangroves started to take off and grow branches, I had to fix the lagoon end and there was no way to avoid digging the mangroves out.
That really stalled the growth. I didn’t see any new leaves coming out for more than 3 months after that. But now they’ve rebounded and are starting to crowd each other out.
I’m also loving watching the prop roots form and the pneumatophores popping up through the sand bed.
I always forget to post in this thread, but here’s an update on the mangroves in my classroom reef.
Where they started (1/10/24):
Where they are today:
Here’s a shot from under the canopy:
One thing that is noteworthy is that last spring, after the mangroves started to take off and grow branches, I had to fix the lagoon end and there was no way to avoid digging the mangroves out.
That really stalled the growth. I didn’t see any new leaves coming out for more than 3 months after that. But now they’ve rebounded and are starting to crowd each other out.
I’m also loving watching the prop roots form and the pneumatophores popping up through the sand bed.
Greg,
What do you use for lighting over the mangroves? I've set up a Caribbean mangrove biotope in my classroom. 28g lowboy. Currently I have a cheap Amazon grow light over the mangroves and a nicrew over the other side for the corals and such.
Gregg @ ADP
Valuable Member
Up until recently, I had an Aqua Illumination Hydra 26HD. Now that the canopy has expanded, I put an AI Hydea 52HD over them.
Both lights programmed to the other lights on the reef, so no special plant spectrum.
Gregg @ ADP
Valuable Member
My mangroves are in the shallow lagoon part. Everything is open, all the way across the tank, even though I could cover the deeper end. I haven’t had anything jump out, but then again, I only have 1 wrasse.
You can see how the mangroves were leaning when I had the smaller AI 26 over them and it was more toward the center of the tank. Now I’ve got the 52 over them, mounted higher, and more toward the right end of the tank.
Hopefully that gets the canopy expanding.
AdamG280
Active Member
I commented in a really old thread so I’m not sure if I’d get an answer, so since this thread looks more recent, I have a question. I just got my red mangrove plant today and for it to sit properly, I’d have to trim the roots. I looked it up and saw that root trimming wasn’t recommended. Somebody said they just left their mangrove hanging on the side and the roots grew down into the substrate on their own. Any advice?
twentyleagues
5000 Club Member
Dont mess with the roots of a red mangrove. This is how they filter out the salt from the water, damage to the roots will allow salt into the plant and it will die.
AdamG280
Active Member
Thank you very much. That’s what I thought.
