mangrove

[FIV]

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Can please someone give me some info about growing mangroves?
Thanks FIV

 

[DaisyPolyp]

what do you wanna know? I've got 5 in my refugium.

 

[Ben1]

A have two, mostly for fun. I doubt mangroves really remove much from the water when they are so small. They use magnesium in the water to help pass some of the salt. Mine have always done better when the roots are covored with sand. I have heard they do well with the roots loose but if algea grows on them it will bother the root, IME. If the leafs are too close to a hot lamp they will turn brown and fall off.

Thats all I know!

 

[reefann]

I have heard they do best under 6500k bulbs because they are found at sealevel. That is just what I have heard though.................I also hear they need fairly intense light.
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[FIV]

OK this is the story:
A month ago I brought a long green (bean like )stuff that I found on the beach on the Dominican rep. I just assume that's a mangrove.I suspended it in my FW tank and is growing roots.My questions are:
- is it OK to keep it in the fresh water tank?
- should it be in water only the brown, bottom part (1 1/2 ") ?
- should I put a small basket with sand, let's say finely crushed coral ?
- can it be planted out of the tank ,like a terrestrial plant with lots of water ?

With the light I can't help too much,it'll get the natural sunlight from the window.Over there,the mangroves were in swamps ( I guess FW) and with very dense vegetation and very little light penetrating.
I'll give it a try.

- how big it grows in how much time ?
- you guys ,for how long you have them ?

Thanks for your reply.
Francis

 

[Ben1]

The mangrooves there were probably is salt ponds or even brackish swamps. If you bout it for the DR back to the US you are lucky customs didn't find it.

Yes you can keep it in FW. Yes the leaves should be above water and the brown part should be UW.

 

[DaisyPolyp]

ditto

 

[sawyerc]

You can keep them in FW but they should be acclimated slowly if they were in brackish or saltwater. I bought my first Mangrove at my LFS and they told me that it was in freshwater but just "throw it in the tank." The mangrove went dormant for about six months and has just finally started to grow again. Acclimate slowly if it already has roots and leaves or you might kill it or make it go dormant.

 

[moses]

Yes Mangroves can be grown in most normal soil conditions. They are more intolerant of salt than they are of freshwater

 

[CiXeL]

1. theres nothing wrong with bringing back seeds through customs, people have been doing it for years. its plants they worry about and soil because they can contain insects. im in the carnivorous plant hobby and people move seeds all over the world all the time.

2. i have 5 mangroves i grow in my bathroom in pots above a cabinet that gets indirect light from the sun and sit in regular soil and are kept wet. They grow VERY easily. actually id say they grow better in regular soil. they like living in mud not dead sand which means theyd probably do excellently in anaerobic sand that isnt stirred where deritus breaks down.

 

[CiXeL]

oh one more thing, theres 3 kinds of mangroves. red, white and black. it appears to me red mangrove is the most common. i collected all 5 of my seeds floating down the coast at kailua beach in oahu. they're like weeds.

 

[Ben1]

Seeds bought through a distributor that are claimed with the customs dept are one thing. It's anoughter story when you are finding things on the beach and bringing them back. Unless you are trying to say bugs don't live on or inside pods of mangroves found on the beach :roll: