Show your Mangrove Systems

[blakebark]

The Mister

[Navyblue]

I just got a stick of mangrove, it is more than 4' tall from root to leaves, which is far too tall for my taste.

How can I trim it? Would it live if I cut it into 2 across the "trunk"? Would the top half grow roots and the bottom half grow leaves?

Also, why would you guys bury it in the substrate? Would it live by just suspending the roots in the water?

Thanks.

[jeffreylam1132]

Love this thread. All great ideas for mangroves.

[x0xvi3t]

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wow those look amazing really healthy love it

[ebacon]

Has anyone been able to keep these for longer than a year? I never have. I suspect part of the reason is that these plants typically grow in marsh brackish water. Water that leans more towards fresh than salt.. So the over abundance of salt eventually kills them. This is of course prolonged bu misting them with ro fresh water on a regular basis but it seems eventually it is enviable. If anyone has other experiences with these lasting longer than say a year I would appreciate yur input.

[acurro]

I have. Don't disturb the roots once they start growing. Instantly kills them. And spray them with freshwater as much as possible.

[italquam]

I recently switched my lights to LED for my refugium , I was using power compact, but i think it was too strong for the mangroves, the leaves kept burning and dying, even with misting.

I used PVC setup with green garden string to suspend them above the water. I did notcie that the leaves on some plants seem a little droopy right now, does anyone know why this could be happening.

[trevdawg]

Neat

[Rfr4evr]

I'm looking at building what you could call a major mangrove/ marine plant refuge system. Big question is how much sand bed and how deep of water above the sand bed to maximize such a system? The way I am planning on building it I can increase the water level in the refuge as the plants grow up to 2 feet of water. Will this work?

[h2hiero]

Is there any other idea for floating your mangroves other than styrofoam?

[WSPepsilon]

Originally Posted by h2hiero

Is there any other idea for floating your mangroves other than styrofoam?

Couple people have suggested using the floating plant baskets for ponds.

[italquam]

I reccomend using PVC pipe to form a creative display, i tried the styrofoam and it was jsut messy and i was afraid it would leach chemicals into the system. I simply went to Home Depot and spent some time in the PVC plumbing area, bought some elbows and unions, it was very easy and you can be creative. Also, i reccommend using the green strechy garden string that people use for plants, they also sell it at the garden section at Home Depot

[x0xvi3t]

Nice

[jdm18honda]

Originally Posted by blakebark

The Mister

great idea

[cfd3lsd]

I've had the same 4 mangroves under cfls with daily misting for 3 years, they are about 32'' tall at this point with a few branches each. They've been in a refugium this entire time, but I plan to move them into the topless display, island style.

Originally Posted by ebacon

Has anyone been able to keep these for longer than a year? I never have. I suspect part of the reason is that these plants typically grow in marsh brackish water. Water that leans more towards fresh than salt.. So the over abundance of salt eventually kills them. This is of course prolonged bu misting them with ro fresh water on a regular basis but it seems eventually it is enviable. If anyone has other experiences with these lasting longer than say a year I would appreciate yur input.

[NanoJosh]

Originally Posted by aquamanpc24

My mangrove shots.. there are 3 different locations using black and red mangroves. I will be getting my white mangroves this week! I waited 4 years for them!
first picture shows what I placed them in while they woke from dormancy after being shipped. Simple mud and aragnite substrate and moist not wet, once the upper substarte started to dry I knew they were "awake" and lowered the bin into a rubbermaid tote/sump

in the other pictured setup I took a 40g breeder drilled and plumbed it into my 33 reef and used a small glass pictank propped up on pvc and covered by live rock to hold mangroves in it.

there is also a 30gallon rubbermaid storage tote that has the 24" tall blacks that I found last year online that are still being acclimated to a brackish level. when it comes to mangroves I am the man in my group of friends, I set them up in evewryones tank I make and modify acrlic viewers for the people who want to try them. I noticed in some of the other shots that they are way to many propagules in a single container. They will strangle their siblings to death in that small of an area. not to mention potentially block their light.

I know this post is pretty old are you still using mangroves and how did you get them to get so bushy that is amazing

[tinkerman]

I just added a remote fuge as the mangroves were in the sump and grew to tall. This is what I did to give them some more room.


3 are about 5 mos old 3 are 3mos old and I just added 6 more today.

[tinkerman]

Frank what do you consider to deep a sandd bed to keep the mangroves from streching? How many t5's are you using above them? Any recomendations for a 20 long with 24" t5's, how many and how high you keep them above themangrove? Thanks for any help.

[borderreef]

I just bought a bunch. The vendor said a "basic" rule of thumb is that if you can feel the heat on the back of your hand when you touch the top of the leaves, the lights are too close. since this is my first time with mangroves, I'm using their advise as a start. I'm also going wih the bamboo technique to get a really nice root system to form

[italquam]

what is the bamboo technique?

[NanoJosh]

+1 ?? Bamboo technique is unknown to me too


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[pantherguy30]

More for aesthetics than doing anything but I threw a few in my overflow and they were happy for a couple years until I moved and broke the system down.
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