LAGOON REEF!
I guess I have. What are your concerns? They can handle any type of water. You just need to find out the salinity of the water they were raised in, begin growing them in thst salinity, then gradually over a few days acclimate the water to where you want it to be. They don’t like to be abruptly switched to different water environments often. Each time they will generally lose their leaves and then recover. But they are at risk while they are acclimating and conditioning to the new environment. Best advice I can give, is that they don’t like to be f*cked with. Set em, and let them be. People always have so many questions and concerns about jumping into mangroves, which is great! Doing your research on the front end. But I have had so many mangroves, abuses the hell out of them, unknowingly went against many recommendations, and rarely of ever had a problem. These trees are rockstars. They inhabit the areas they do because no other tree can. So they have a monopoly on the tidal coastlines. People in warmer climates put them in a bucket in their backyard and never touch them. Just top off the water with old tank water. Those are some significant swings there. Basically, nothing on earth can survive on saltwater, nothing terrestrial. These trees have evolved a way to either inhibit salt from entering, or a way to excrete it. Just depends on how much work they have to do. I went on too long, apologies. What are your concerns specifically?
No concerns. I just wanted to see some. If I grow some I want to do it in brackish just to give me an excuse to get some brackish fish. Many moons ago I started some in a bucket out in my backyard. I was going to attempt to shape the roots in a way similar to bonsai, but that got shelved due to too many projects at the time. I thought about putting one of them in the pond I was building at the time, but I was worried the roots would eventually break through the liner. I never got back to it though. It's one of those deals where the propagules are so common here that it's way too easy to put it off as something I'll always be able to do "some day".
My dream is definitely a mudskipper tank. The biggest hurdle for me is that their environments are just not attractive in the least way! Lol. If I can figure out how to make an attractive biotope for them, I’m all in
Some of the coolest pics I’ve seen in a while. So cool!!If you see, I began adding barnacles to the section. I’ve always kept nano creatures in this area, but this began my obsession with the lovable little barnacle blennies. There are at least 5 in this first shot, and a yasha goby. I had 3-4 yasha gobies in my display, but small fish LOVED to travel down into the sump:
Thank you so much!
For sure
So, in my experience, the closer and brighter the lights, the bushier and more company it will grow. Because the stems aren’t reaching for light. Since yours are getting tall, I’d say to trim the growth stem. The stem where new leaves are sprouting upward. This way the tree will start sprouting outward and make a really cool canopy. The tree will still continue to grow up, just wider, and if you cut above a leaf intersection, the branch will spread into twoHere’s a couple shots from today. Does anybody want to help select some pruning locations? I’m definitely happy with the plants height, but I would like to do some work on the canopy. I’d especially like to keep working on getting the plant to fill out the back left corner of the tank. Any ideas?
The pic of the two leaves with a tiny bud is one I pruned a few months ago. It’s been very slow to grow back.
Also my lights are fully adjustable so I can move them around to different parts of the plant. My idea was that this would help promote and target growth in certain areas. I’ll admit I have no idea if that is true or not.
