Too many mangroves?

[Swine]

Interesting, why not reverse or 24/7? Are you doing this for looks or have you noticed a drop in nitrates or phosphates?

 

[JMSKI333]

I'll take some off of your hands I have a 40b fuge to fill.

 

[Dylan J.]

If I ran it 24/7 red slime would take over the fuge. I do not have any algae what so ever in my tank and my phosphates n nitrates are pretty much 0

 

[d2mini]

Dang...I see where he only has 6-8 now. If you go back in his build to the earlier stages, he has a pic of 50 that had grown quite well for him. Without going through the thread, no sure why he reduced to so few!

Yup, i had 50 mangroves for the first year of my tank.
It was fine and I don't think it was too much for the tank at all. They grow way too slow and are one of the worst choices for actual nutrient export. I just had them cause it was fun.
Only got rid of most of them because I wanted to switch to a display refugium and no longer had room for that many. Now i'm concentrated on growing just a few, trying to get them to eventually grow into actual trees and really get some massive, strong roots.

 

[Dylan J.]

I plan on going on to a bigger tank soon but yeah at the moment its a bit of over kill on the mangroves lol, going to have to move the light up high due to them pretty much in the bulb itself lol