!!!!! SHOW OFF YOUR MANGROVE !!!!!

brad908 · Dec 19, 2016

Gwitness said:
Do you use the same light for mangroves as you do for refugium macros?

I've used metal halides, t5's and led's with success. All usually around 6500k spectrum

My main tank a few posts ago is mangrove/macros. Led and t5 lit.

Gwitness · Dec 19, 2016

Really!! Okay great to know! Is there a certain type of led fixture you buy for these types of tanks? I'm just asking because my main tank is ran on radions and T5s but I also have a 60 rimless plumbed up for a refugium and want it to look like some of these pictures!! Any special lighting unit?

brad908 · Dec 19, 2016

Gwitness said:
Really!! Okay great to know! Is there a certain type of led fixture you buy for these types of tanks? I'm just asking because my main tank is ran on radions and T5s but I also have a 60 rimless plumbed up for a refugium and want it to look like some of these pictures!! Any special lighting unit?

My lights are from nanobox. The one is a hybrid 24" 2bulb t5 with 4 LED pucks over the main part of the tank and the mangrove light is a "duo" model with the flare "planted" spectrum. (I keep 6500k t5bulbs in the hybrid fixture)

I believe kessil makes an Amazon Sun model which is supposed to be pretty decent as well.

Gwitness · Dec 19, 2016

brad908 said:
My lights are from nanobox. The one is a hybrid 24" 2bulb t5 with 4 LED pucks over the main part of the tank and the mangrove light is a "duo" model with the flare "planted" spectrum. (I keep 6500k t5bulbs in the hybrid fixture)

Okay thanks!!! Looks unbelievable !!!! I love it!

Damon · Dec 19, 2016

I just started these maybe a week or two ago.. I have one already opening that was curled, and I'm hoping the last will follow, but it has a ways to go.. It's in my tub/stock tank also growing my cheato and a sort of lagoon for new fish..

Black Pearl · Dec 20, 2016

Tried growing 6 pods floated in styrofoam in salt water, all turned really hard, did not root, maybe i had bad pods. Think ill try again with Mud and in fresh water. where is the best source for Pods?

brad908 · Dec 20, 2016

Black Pearl said:
Tried growing 6 pods floated in styrofoam in salt water, all turned really hard, did not root, maybe i had bad pods. Think ill try again with Mud and in fresh water. where is the best source for Pods?

A lot of people are able to get mangroves to survive by throwing them in a sump with a cheap light, but mangroves will greatly benefit from being planted in some type of nutrient rich substrate, like mud. Good light and substrate = thrive, not survive.

Reef Cleaners is a good source - https://www.reefcleaners.org/aquarium-store/5-red-mangroves . There are also various sellers on ebay.

143MPCo · Dec 21, 2016

brad908 said:
A lot of people are able to get mangroves to survive by throwing them in a sump with a cheap light, but mangroves will greatly benefit from being planted in some type of nutrient rich substrate, like mud. Good light and substrate = thrive, not survive.

Couldn't agree more with this.

randyBRS · Dec 21, 2016

brad908 said:
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I think I have a new favorite macroalgae tank...great job and terrific execution on this. I love it!

Acameron2 · Dec 21, 2016

My mangrove set up.

Black Pearl · Dec 22, 2016

Now that's nice!

JoeIII · Dec 23, 2016

I will work on some pics later...

I have three red mangroves I collected as propogules in the fall that are in my sump. They are throwing out roots like crazy just floating under a 73w led grow light.

I hope to have a shallow tank to keep them in like the ones shown some day, or I will put them in Matthews 40B if I don't come up with another solution.

lake985 · Dec 23, 2016

I added mangroves to help hide my kessil 160, but it ended up drawing more attention to it. Don't mind my ticked off goni.

brad908 · Jan 4, 2017

6 weeks. 4 of the 6 mangroves currently have sprouted, 1 will be fully sprouted by the end of this week, and the last one probably in 2 weeks.

Lilmatty5dimes · Jan 9, 2017

Here's my lil refugium LFS has a sick refugium light that grows the groves and cheato like crazy.

lake985 · Jan 9, 2017

Lilmatty5dimes said:
Here's my lil refugium LFS has a sick refugium light that grows the groves and cheato like crazy.

What fuge light are you using?

Lilmatty5dimes · Jan 9, 2017

lake985 said:
What fuge light are you using?

Here's what it is. It's a local shop that builds led and my lfs bought quite a few of them cause they work so well.

revhtree · Jan 9, 2017

Nice job folks!

mercedesbeanz · May 16, 2017

Hi everyone. Nice mangroves on this forum. I also have been growing some red mangroves and six angled orange mangroves as houseplants. I live in Socal and have only grown them using natural full sunlight. Not as pretty as the rest of the mangroves I have seen on here, but I thought it was worth sharing.

rinckemd · Jun 24, 2017

I've had these growing for 2+ years. The root size is amazing! They aren't perfect, the light isn't ideal. I'm always amazed how they grew through my giant rock. I will say, don't ever cut a root. I broke one off and it's never been the same. I'll need to raise the lights soon, as I want more height. I've got a small cluster on the left that are starting to take off. I attached the propagules to a bamboo stick to hold them in place until the roots take off.

Video showing some of the roots on the right cluster.