Red Mangrove Keepers . . . .

[eoffrey]

Yes.

 

[gettanked]

krustycat,

Your single red mangrove, was that one rooted in a sand bed?

 

[krustycat]

krustycat,

Your single red mangrove, was that one rooted in a sand bed?

I only have a single black one (Avicenia germinans) and 10 red (Rhizophora mangle).
None of them are rooted in a sand bed. I'm still "training" them to develop aerial roots.
The roots have grown quickly, in less than two months are more than 2 in long and have some branches. Even the plants now are developing sprouts. :splitspin

There is an anecdote about my black mangroves, I expected to receive 5 small seed by priority mail in two days (that was in winter Feb-March) coming with heather packs, insulated box and everything, as part of an order intended to boost my refugium.
USPS... that said, package got lost and 10 days after it appeared. :irked: Moreover, it was dropped in my front door in the middle of a pile of snow. Temperatures felt in the mid 30's.... It was there for about 10 hours unattended, you guess... :duh:
The seeds had it sprouts shriveled and/or detached and the roots was apart into pieces. Critters dead everywhere. The heater bag inside, completely fossil and cold. I could save 2 pieces, one of them has recently died and I keep one :happysad: which it's getting a little gloomy (don't know why).

Now I have to hurry up and move all the mangroves to another container because they are growing too tall for the space I have put them inside.

I'm planning to use a rubbermaid container to be fed from the display (small pump for that purpose) and overflowing (gravity flow) to the sump.
I'll be using a mix with some mineral mud and sand and I'm already curing/cycling some pieces of reef bones while I'm planning kind of setup. I'm still thinking, so, all ideas are welcome. :splitspin

Rossana

 

[gettanked]

I'm planning to use a rubbermaid container to be fed from the display (small pump for that purpose) and overflowing (gravity flow) to the sump.
I'll be using a mix with some mineral mud and sand and I'm already curing/cycling some pieces of reef bones while I'm planning kind of setup. I'm still thinking, so, all ideas are welcome. :splitspin

Rossana[/quote]

The grey Rubber Made ccontainers are best.

I recommend using just a plain sand bed, at least 7 to 14 inches.

In my opinion the mineral mud is a waste of money and time.

I never heard of reef bones, please elaborate.

Garry

 

[krustycat]

I never heard of reef bones, please elaborate.
Garry

Reef bones are dried live rock (coral bones).
The reefbones are a lot cheaper and after X months will have the same properties as the LR. They are quite porous and you can get the benefits of a good rock structure because the interesting shapes looks nice and a real good LR is expensive.
I took the small ones, like the rubble used for nanos.
Caribsea sells "their patented" reef bones (mine are the regular ones from the LFS).

Also the mud I referred is not the expensive Leng Sy's "miracle" or garf mud. It's just regular mud (less than 20 bucks). I know it is not necessary, but I have read could be beneficial for different reasons and just planned to add a little mixed with the sand.
One good reference is in the book "Reef Invertebrates" (Calfo & Fenner).
The mangroves are found usually in muddy areas.

There is another article about them here.

Rossana