- Location
- Queens, NY
Read many articles about these plants, and have actually seen them being used in many aquariums, but can't find any. Does anyone sell them on MR or does anyone know where I can buy some?
Red Mangroves
- Thread starter jawwad2004
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- 11756
For these things to actually be beneficial to the tank, you need ALOT of them...a few wont really do anything for the tank. I've got one but its just to have something growing out of the water..heh
- Location
- North Shore Long lsand, NY
They're pretty useless for nutrient export...but they're interesting and can create an interesting biotope.
d.
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- 11756
Yup, if you look bac at some old post of "Nano tank", nilo had a brackish tank set up with Magroves and mudskippers. Nice tank.
- Location
- Queens, NY
delv said:
Where did you hear this? At the New England aquarium, they just use a huge mangrove to filter out there jellyfish tank! Link me to the article that says there useless for nutrient export, cause from what I read it says they can eventually eliminate the use of a protein skimmer.
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- 11756
jawwad2004 said:
Same thing I heard Jawwad. They are useless unless you have a TON of them, prolly like 1 for every gallon of water, meaning sump+tank+fuge...etc...For them to actually be useful they'd have to be big tooo. The one I got doesnt even have any leaves, their just starting to grow.
- Location
- North Shore Long lsand, NY
Ever see them grow? SLOOOOOOOOW.....very few leaves. How much PO4 can you remove when they grow so slowly? I haven't seen behind the scenes at New England (Next time I go up there I'll stop in) but I'm sure that the mangroves are the smallest part of their filtration system.
Look into jelly care/prop...there's a lot more to their care than most people know...like sterilizing the tank periodically to kill hydroids...skimming and UV are mandatory.
Again, they make a cool tank...enjoy them for that and get some chaeto if you want to grow macros...
d.
Look into jelly care/prop...there's a lot more to their care than most people know...like sterilizing the tank periodically to kill hydroids...skimming and UV are mandatory.
Again, they make a cool tank...enjoy them for that and get some chaeto if you want to grow macros...
d.
- Location
- Queens, NY
From what I've read is whatever the absorb, they excrete it through their leaves, thats why they need to be misted with freshwater often. I'm going to buy some and see the results.
- Location
- Queens, NY
Sounds good to me, lets get 20, 10 each.DEEPWATER said:
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