Wild Mangrove Transplant

[gr8pretender]

After an hour of Google, YouTube and Reef2Reef searches I wasn’t finding the quite the answers I was looking for, so apologies if this was asked before. I have a saltwater reef tank and I recently collected a few wild red mangrove saplings that I would like to grow in my reef tank. From what I read/heard, if the roots are damaged then you need to put them in freshwater for a few weeks. Once they are healed then reacclimatize to salt over a few more weeks because the plant will not have the pressure needed to keep the salt water out which will harm the plant. Before I flew home with the saplings, agriculture had me wash out all the dirt three times over, so I did snap off some of the smaller more sensitive roots in that process and I’m sure some have broken in transport. If you can point me to a resource, or let me know what is true, that would help me out so much. I have read some people saying it should be fine going straight into aquarium and others saying it should go in freshwater first.

 

[40g Nano]

So i collected mangroves from the Indian River, FL, and i put them straight into saltwater. They did great, event those with damaged roots. But they carried bacteria that infected my fish :/

 

[gr8pretender]

So i collected mangroves from the Indian River, FL, and i put them straight into saltwater. They did great, event those with damaged roots. But they carried bacteria that infected my fish :/

Well that’s a good consideration, maybe I can chemi-clean dip em? I wonder… Thanks for sharing because that is helpful to get me to decide what to do.

 

[IKD]

I’ve used mangrove saplings from the banana river without issue. Agree on rinsing them in saltwater first

 

[40g Nano]

Well that’s a good consideration, maybe I can chemi-clean dip em? I wonder… Thanks for sharing because that is helpful to get me to decide what to do.

i would treat with an anti-bacterial (i used ruby reef rally pro), but i think furan 2 would work